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The new HEAT, in green

The third issue in HEAT Series 3 is out now, featuring new writing by Madeleine Watts, Kenneth Chong, Jarad Bruinstroop, Aniela Rodríguez, Kate Crowcroft and Iman Mersal. Subscribe to HEAT now to receive Number 3 as your first issue, with more adventurous literary writing from Australia and around the world to come.

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In the media

‘A trailblazer from the day it was launched…[HEAT magazine] is still dedicated to publishing non-Anglophone views of the world, alternatives to the mainstream and points of view that are both thought-provoking and expressed in high literary style.’ — Miriam Cosic, Openbook

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Tongue Broken

There are many ways to break a tongue, and there are many ways to recall its power, not only as an instrument of speech that shapes sound within its home of the mouth and palate, but as an organ involved in knowledge acquisition, sense making, flights and figment.
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Speaks Shadow

HEAT 2
1996
I suppose I knew, even then, that my feelings for David were unreciprocated. But such feelings were complex; one could not easily unmake them. So I stayed longer than was sensible, an artist’s dark-haired mistress, the drunk, the second fiddle, the woman at parties and exhibitions, jagged in her speech, pathetic, rude, waiting to be conferred some order of substantiality.
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