My parents crowbar the chicken feeder in the storm’s residual murmurs. We’ve trodden quietly among the acreage’s mangled bones: the coop’s a wreck, the concrete feeder bottom-up. Beaks of pink dust peck the silence where a cacophony of chickens should be.
Continue readingI’m thrilled to be published in The Saltbush Review.
My piece, ‘A Vagrant Hush of Snails Unfurling’, inspired by Hanley’s river snail, is in Issue 2 of this brilliant South Australian-based publication.
Continue readingThe prompt “horizon” arrived in my email. The task was to write a story of up to thirty words inspired by and using the prompt, tweet your entry, tag Writers Victoria (@Writers_Vic), and hashtag WVFlashFic22. I’m a nervous overthinking Nivita unsuited to the fast, savvy highway that is Twitter—and usually too busy feeding the chickens—so I don’t tweet (as my bio says). But a good friend of mine was taking the challenge daily, and her diligence put me to shame. I felt I should enter at least once.
Continue readingI’m pleased to have a playscript up at Drama Notebook (.com). It’s based on the Greek myth of Clytie, a water nymph who became a sunflower, set to mourn for eternity over unrequited love.
Continue readingWORDLY Magazine | poetry | print
One of my musings on philosophy and art has been published in WORDLY Magazine – print edition – Core. Huge thanks to the editors for including my work. You can flip through the magazine online and read my poem “And Now, Let Us Paint” here.
To read some more of my art-inspired poems, go here.
I’m excited to be collaborating with Adelaide artist Priscilla Corbell-Moore for her debut solo exhibition and SALA event: Art for a Cause: Poetry & Paintings. My poems will accompany Priscilla’s paintings.
Huge thanks to Priscilla for inviting my poetry to form itself around her exquisite paintings. I am in love with these artworks!
The exhibition begins on August 18 at Pilgrim Uniting Church, Flinders Street, Adelaide. Proceeds from sales of Priscilla’s paintings will be donated to support people who are facing homelessness.
I’m thrilled my story Stone Pulpit is a selected text for the 2021 Microflix Writing Awards. How exciting! There’s a chance a filmmaker might choose this piece for adaptation into a film. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks to Professor Cassandra Atherton, who selected the texts. I’m also hugely grateful to Microflix and Spineless Wonders for providing this opportunity to writers and filmmakers.
You can read my micro here.
Blue Bottle Journal | poetry | web
I’m thrilled to have three poems in Blue Bottle Journal. What a treat to be included in this brilliant publication.
“Meet me on the cool axis“
Bracken Magazine | nonfiction | web
“Through horrors and monsters of childhood she asked us our flowers, and she kept her nightly list. Best things. Fun things. Favourite things. Goodness. Each evening the inventories spilled wide-limbed out of her. How had I never noticed they were wings?”
This piece was written for the CORONA HOPELINGS issue of Bracken Magazine in response to the lockdown for coronavirus.
You can read the full story here.
Linda Kohler 