Writing
TIME, a collection of Art and Writing by LIMINAL Magazine
Time flows thick; we shift between past and present, looking furtively at the ever-fracturing future. A moment becomes a day becomes a year, as we layer temporalities, our bodies the only marker of time as it rushes past.
LIMINAL presents TIME, its sixth digital series of art & writing.
This series features work by Julie Koh, Lee Lai, Shirley Le, Hiro McL, Mia Nie, Suneeta Peres da Costa, Anupama Pilbrow, and Elizabeth Tan.
Edited by Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, and Adalya Nash Hussein, with design by Anny Luo.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Julie Koh is the author of Capital Misfits and Portable Curiosities. The latter was shortlisted for several awards and led to Julie being named a 2017 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. Her short stories have been published widely, including in the Best Australian Stories and Best Australian Comedy Writing. She has written radio plays for ABC Radio National and the libretto for the satirical opera Chop Chef.
Lee Lai is an Australian cartoonist currently living in Tio’tia:ke (known as Montreal, Quebec). She has been featured in The New Yorker, The Lifted Brow, Room Magazine, and Meanjin Journal. Her first graphic novel Stone Fruit is due to be released by Fantagraphics in 2021, and has been translated into eight languages.
Shirley Le is a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Yagoona. She is a Creative Producer at Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement. She is currently working on her debut novel as the recipient of a 2019 Affirm Press Mentorship.
Hiro Mcl is a queer, non-binary, mixed Japanese and white comic artist and illustrator based in Naarm / Birranga / Melbourne. They have worked on various art projects for community events and publications with a focus on queer, trans and BIPOC identity and experiences.
Mia Nie is a Chinese-Australian comic artist, zine-maker, and award-nominated ex-poet. Her work explores the complexities, contradictions, and deeply felt desires of transgender subjectivity. She is passionate about understanding queer history and imagining queer futures. Mia is a recipient of the Wheeler Centre’s The Next Chapter 2020 Fellowship, and is currently working on her first graphic novel.
Elizabeth Tan is a writer from Perth. Her first book is the novel-in-stories Rubik (2017); her second book is the short-story collection Smart Ovens for Lonely People (2020), which won the 2020 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction.
Suneeta Peres da Costa was born in Sydney ~ on Gadigal land and is of Goan origin. She writes fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry, and her writing has recently appeared in Meanjin, Peril and Sydney Review of Books. Her latest book, a novella Saudade (Giramondo, 2018; Transit USA & Canada, 2019), was shortlisted for the 2019 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and a finalist in Field Notes’ 2020 Tournament of Books. Her earlier novel was Homework (Bloomsbury). Her honours include fellowships and residencies from Asialink Arts, the Australia Council for the Arts – BR Whiting Residency, Rome, Varuna – The Writers’ House, MacDowell, the Yaddo Corporation and the Fulbright Program.
Anupama Pilbrow is the editor-in-chief of The Suburban Review. She studied mathematics at The University of Melbourne. Her poems, reviews, and essays can be found in Cordite Poetry Review, Rabbit Poetry Journal, Southerly, and others, and she was the 2015 recipient of the Dinny O’Hearn Fellowship. Read her chapbook Body Poems, published with Vagabond Press 2018. Her work often deals with diaspora, dialogue, exchange, and gross stuff.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Leah Jing McIntosh is the founding editor of Liminal magazine. She is currently completing her PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Adalya Nash Hussein is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, Ibis House, Meanjin and Going Down Swinging. She has been an Emerging Writers’ Festival Melbourne Recital Centre Writer in Residence, a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, and shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. She is the editor of Voiceworks and a co-editor at Liminal.
Cher Tan is an essayist, editor and critic. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Review of Books, The Saturday Paper, Kill Your Darlings, Overland and Runway Journal, amongst others. She is the reviews editor at Meanjin, an editor at LIMINAL and a commissioning editor at the Feminist Writers Festival.
Jon Tjhia is a radio maker, musician, artist and writer. His essays and stories have most recently been published by LIMINAL and Avantwhatever, and his radio and sound works have been broadcast, exhibited or performed from speakers or on stages around the anglosphere. Formerly, as the Wheeler Centre’s senior digital editor, he co-founded and published the Australian Audio Guide, as well as award-winning projects including the digital publication Notes, and The Messenger, a podcast. His other collaborations include Paper Radio, a sound-rich literary podcast, and the Manus Recording Project Collective.
LIMINAL X Mapping Melbourne “Time Series” is presented as part of Mapping Melbourne 2020-21.
Principal Partners:
City of Melbourne, Creative Victoria and Australia Council for the Arts
Supporting Partners:
PBS FM
Presented With:
LIMINAL Magazine