Khushi Marwaha, 'What’s on the Menu?', 2025. oil on board. © Khushi Marwaha
Westerly: The Writers’ Collective
Online Special Issue 18
Guest edited by Rashida Murphy from The Writers’ Collective (TWC).
TWC is a group of writers, reviewers, academics, editors, artists, poets, musicians, journalists, performers and theatre makers committed to an antiracist vision of the arts in practice and within organisations.
Featuring new prose and poetry from members of TWC, including Cindy Solonec, Max McMillan, Jack Collard, Samiha Olwan and Liana Joy Christensen.
‘Along with Westerly, TWC believes in promoting emerging and established voices that align with the values of both organisations and committing to an anti-racist and anti-colonial vision of the arts in practice. It is especially important to continue to do the work of making art, writing stories, singing songs and affirming solidarity with people whose voices are being silenced, disregarded and erased. In this issue you will find voices that amplify resistance, as writers grapple with the limits of solidarity in imperial contexts and what it means to make visible or to voluntarily erase.’
Rashida Murphy Guest Editor, March 2026
Westerly: The Writers’ Collective (OSI18) is guest edited by Rashida Murphy, Founder of The Writers’ Collective (TWC).
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Contents
Rashida Murphy From the Editor
Daniel Juckes From Westerly Magazine
Prose
Samiha Olwan ‘Home and Away: watching a genocide’
Cindy Solonec ‘The Journey’
Casey Mulder ‘Birak’
Mabel Gibson ‘Pavements’
Seth Malacari ‘Plunge’
Max McMillan ‘Swooping Season’
Jas Saunders ‘Homecoming’
Susan Braghieri ‘Bone on Bone’
Poetry
Marziya Mohammedali ‘an/ode’
Asha Rajan ‘Letter to my heart as I sit at home and watch the evening news on TV’
Luoyang Chen ‘Orient Dream Sequence’
Liana Joy Christensen ‘Animal Sabbath’
Jack Collard ‘Hum’
Andrew Sutherland ‘future like the neck of extinction, sleep like future’s ghost’
Lakshmi Kanchi ‘Boobook’s Call’
Tineke Van der Eecken ‘Sinaai fields (inheritance)’
Partners
