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Splinter Journal

Issue Four
Brief Description
Explore the tender nature of a bitter life through original poetry, essays, criticism, and short fiction. Splinter's fourth issue spotlights new, compelling literary voices from across Australia and the world. Featuring writing about: - Kath Day-Knight’s menopause - Doomscrolling technocracy - Cannibalism aka fandom - How... Read More
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Explore the tender nature of a bitter life through original poetry, essays, criticism, and short fiction. Splinter's fourth issue spotlights new, compelling literary voices from across Australia and the world.

Featuring writing about:

- Kath Day-Knight’s menopause
- Doomscrolling technocracy
- Cannibalism aka fandom
- How the news is radicalising your neighbours – Nan-Gong Gong
- Why fish are people too
- Consent in the age of Joe Rogan
- The journey from Rafah to Gaza City
- Ozlit’s (everyone’s?) masculinity problem
- How we (the people) have killed all the fish
- Turbulence
- Great (gendered) expectations, told as a horror movie
- Returning to place
- Returning to your seat
- Returning to find everything has changed, everything has stayed the same.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781764038430

Publisher: Pink Shorts Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 May 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Pink Shorts Press

Contributors:

  • Edited by Farrin Foster

DIMENSIONS

Width: 3886.0mm

Height: 5944.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Farrin Foster is an editor, writer, and occasional film-maker. She is the founding editor of Splinter literary journal, and was previously the editor of independent masthead CityMag. Farrin has worked extensively as a journalist and a freelance writer and has published with titles like the Guardian, Kill Your Darlings, and The Big Issue.

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