Detail from Paige Kenney, Banksia Kaarla, 8' × 6', acrylic and gouche on canvas, 2019. © Paige Kenney. Reproduced with the artist’s permission.
Westerly: Literature & Ideas
Online Special Issue 9
Guest edited by Caitlin Maling and Daniel Juckes.
The aims of this special issue of Westerly are twofold. The first is to archive something of the essence of the 2020 Literature & Ideas weekend at Perth Festival. The second is to showcase some of the best of Western Australia’s established and emerging writers.
Featuring new writing from Tracy Ryan, Chiké Frankie Edozien, Timmah Ball, Holden Sheppard, Omar Sakr and more.
‘There is plenty of love in the pages to come. And there is plenty of noticing too, along with the necessary frankness required for clearheaded conversation. In this sense, the works here enact that most mystic bond: between the interlocutor who dwells on the other side of page or screen, seeking something in order to grow themselves, and the writer, busy trying to make something grow […] The themes of 2020’s Literature & Ideas weekend at Perth Festival were Land, Money, Power and Sex. These are all, without doubt, words which imply larger projects. This special issue gathers festival guests and local writers together, in a chorus which seeks to respond to each theme—and, in doing so, to emphasise the need for closeness and intimacy in the lives we live’.
Caitlin Maling and Daniel Juckes, Guest Editors, February 2020
Westerly: Literature & Ideas (OSI9) is guest edited by Caitlin Maling and Daniel Juckes.
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Contents
Caitlin Maling and Daniel Juckes From the Editors
Catherine Noske and Sisonke Msimang A Note on the Issue
Literature & Ideas
Timmah Ball ‘Imaginary Conversations About the Past and the Future’
Omar Sakr ‘Priest of Cheesy Fries’
Tracy Ryan ‘In-Laws’
Jay Anderson ‘A Private Sermon’
Chiké Frankie Edozien ‘Amebo’
Marie O’Rourke ‘Of Snowballs and Survival’
Zainab Zahra Syed ‘Theatre’
Rafeif Ismail ‘Event Horizons’
Ahmed Yussuf ‘”A History of Cutting off Its History”’
Holden Sheppard ‘Irreversible’
Ashleigh Angus ‘The Flat’
David Stavanger ‘We’re Going to Get Nailed’
Partners
