Series: HEAT

Our issue opens with Dream Geographies, an important essay by Alexis Wright that covers the many aspects of writing her most recent novel Praiseworthy. In her expressive, allegorical style, Wright discusses the importance of writing on a large scale in an imperilled world, the state of Aboriginal self-determination, and the value in thinking off-key to conjure humour. She also describes...

The final issue of 2024, HEAT 17 offers writing from Indigo Bailey, Alice Allan, Louise Carter, Noelle Janaczewska, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Ursula Robinson-Shaw, and Eirill Alvilde Falck. Few noticed that I was gone. Those who did registered a subtle disequilibrium in the texture of the world, as if reality had burst a single pixel... So writes Indigo Bailey in 'Les Figurants',...

First published in 1996, HEAT is a literary magazine dedicated to publishing essays, fiction and poetry by Australian and overseas writers of the highest quality. Recent contributors include Antigone Kefala, Eliot Weinberger, Xi Xi, Katerina Gibson, Lena Andersson, Paul Muldoon, Fiona Kelly McGregor, Mariana Enríquez, David Sornig, Max Easton, Isabella Trimboli, Eda Gunaydin, Noemi Lefebvre, Gareth Morgan, Ender Baskan, Jenny...