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Since its inception in 1996, HEAT has been renowned for its dedication to literary quality. Now, in the third series, HEAT brings together a selection of the most adventurous Australian and overseas writers. Each issue is committed to publishing innovative and imaginative poetry, prose, art and hybrid forms. HEAT’s contributors have included John Berger, Mary Jean Chan, Jenny Erpenbeck, Simryn Gill, Helen Garner, Evelyn Juers, Amitava Kumar, Deborah Levy, Gerald Murnane, Herta Müller, David Malouf, Hanne Ørstavik, Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Oscar Schwartz and Alexis Wright.

Greg Harrison

DAVID SORNIG OS SACRUM • David Sornig is a Melbourne-born writer. His non-fiction and histories have appeared in Meanjin, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review, Guardian and elsewhere. His most recent book is Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp, a psychogeographic excursion into the afterlife of Melbourne’s lost wetlands.

ELIOT WEINBERGER WHAT REMAINS • Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays and poetry include An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, Angels & Saints, and The Life of Tu Fu, all published in the US by New Directions, and Wildlife, published by Giramondo. He lives in New York City.

MAX EASTON TOURIST TRAP • Max Easton is a writer from Sydney. He is the creator of Barely Human, a zine and podcast series exploring underground music’s ties to counterculture and subculture. He is the author of two novels: The Magpie Wing (longlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award) and its follow-up, Paradise Estate, published in 2023. ‘Tourist Trap’ contains characters from his first two novels, and acts as an accompanying tale for his forthcoming novel, Now, Autonomy.

DARYL LIM WEI JIE FIVE POEMS • Daryl Lim Wei Jie is a poet, editor, translator from Singapore. His latest collection of poetry, Anything but Human (2021), was a finalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. He conceptualised and co-edited the anthologies Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020) and The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian and Singaporean Writing (2023). In 2023, he received the Young Artist Award, Singapore’s highest honour for young art practitioners. He’s currently working on Free to Play, a video gaming anthology.

MARIANA ENRÍQUEZ MAIN BUILDING, TENTH FLOOR

DANI NETHERCLIFT PRELUDES #2 • Dani Netherclift is the author of Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies, published in 2024 in Australia, and soon to be published in Canada and the US. She lives on never-ceded Taungurung Country in the High Country Region of Victoria. She is the president and co-curator of the Mansfield Readers and Writers Festival.

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