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The first HEAT of 2023

HEAT Series 3 Number 7 features poetry and prose by Eda Gunaydin, Gareth Morgan, Zhu Yue, Aleksandra Lun, PiO, Noémi Lefebvre and Andriy Lyubka. Subscribe to HEAT now to receive Number 7 as your first issue, with more adventurous literary writing and art from Australia and around the world to come.

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The Saturday Paper

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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

What stands out in all these offerings is the richness of the language used. Every word is controlled and deliberate. We see text without endings – never closed but perpetually open to interpretation. These are all compositions that need to be re-read to understand the nuances of language and to appreciate the games being played with sentences and meaning.
Mel Dixon

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I arrive at the doctor’s office early in the morning. I have forgotten my mask and ask for one at the front desk. Then I take a seat in the waiting room, which looks like a professionally managed Airbnb. Exposed light bulbs and plastic ivy hang from the roof. There is a pink neon sign on the wall that says, in cursive, ‘better together’.

Dear editor, The problem isn’t that the young desire to do wrong but, often, their inability to separate right from wrong. This ability arrives only with a sense of consequences, which is linked to an idea of time. The young cannot imagine a time outside their time.

I don’t know much about cheese, but I know what I like. Crumbly wensleydale. Comté. Provolone. Taleggio. Stilton. Cumin-studded leyden. Sage derby…

It comes back to me that I married K. because he whistled Bach perfectly – that was, as I remember, the reason I gave myself and others. It’s as good a basis as any for marriage and I was not disappointed.

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