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HEAT Series 3 Number 8

Our new issue features new art, poetry and prose by Xi Xi, Judith Beveridge, Patrick Pound, Cameron Hurst, Katerina Gibson and Paul Muldoon. Subscribe to HEAT now to receive Number 8 as your first issue, with more adventurous literary writing and art from Australia and around the world to come.

The revival of HEAT has been one of the high points of the year. After more than a decade on ice, this new series – under the editorship of Alexandra Christie – has raised the bar once again.
The Saturday Paper

So slender and elegant, nothing wasted, nothing grandiose – and beautiful work.
Helen Garner

I welcome the return of HEAT. Writers and readers alike will revel in its daring audacity, bold exploration and innovative celebration of literature.
Alexis Wright

An edgy and enormously influential literary magazine.
The Australian

A forum for beautifully crafted writing which engages both the emotions and the intellect.
Australian Book Review

HEAT is eclectic and eccentric, bold and often feisty, and above all else, it is a journal that always gives a freer rein to its writers, that we might gallop wherever we will.
Fiona Wright

HEAT magazine was a trailblazer from the day it was launched…[it] has always been known for the quality of its writing as well as its multicultural outlook.
Openbook

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Carpentaria imagines the cultural mind as sovereign and in control, while freely navigating through the known country of colonialism to explore the possibilities of other worlds.

It was my turn to hold her. I wrapped her in the special stuff. Then he wrapped us both in the special stuff, leaving a corner untucked to fold himself into.

Of all the things I took to the front for Ukrainian soldiers, the most important was a kilogram of freshly roasted coffee from a hipster coffee house in the centre of Uzhhorod.

It is reasonably safe to predict that the activities of reading, studying, writing and publishing literary fiction will increasingly become the preserve of a rump of ‘true believers’.

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HEAT Series 3 Number 8

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On writing Carpentaria

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Roasted Uganda

The Decline of the Literary Paradigm in Australian Publishing

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