Sūdō Journal
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· Apr 15
We want to read your work! Submissions are now open for Sūdō Journal volume 6: "Disconnect." Submissions close June 30, 2025 for our December 2025 issue.
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Volume 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"Feminine substantiality covers the contours of formerly patriarchical social space: sickening, fuggy air fills our nostrils to the brim..."
From "Soft, Black, and Liquid" by Mark Horvath, in Sūdō Journal volume 1.
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Volume 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"Feminine substantiality covers the contours of formerly patriarchical social space: sickening, fuggy air fills our nostrils to the brim..."
From "Soft, Black, and Liquid" by Mark Horvath, in Sūdō Journal volume 1.
shorturl.at/5XH5l
Blood, Sweat and Tears
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June 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"Feminine substantiality covers the contours of formerly patriarchical social space: sickening, fuggy air fills our nostrils to the brim..."
From "Soft, Black, and Liquid" by Mark Horvath, in Sūdō Journal volume 1.
shorturl.at/5XH5l
Volume 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"Feminine substantiality covers the contours of formerly patriarchical social space: sickening, fuggy air fills our nostrils to the brim..."
From "Soft, Black, and Liquid" by Mark Horvath, in Sūdō Journal volume 1.
shorturl.at/5XH5l
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Volume 2: Hot Under the Collar
"Travis says nothing as gets his breath back. He stares straight ahead as speed runs hard through his brain. The sensation is electric but he knows he has a job to do."
From "Wonderland" by Sean O'Leary.
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Volume 2: Hot Under the Collar
"Travis says nothing as gets his breath back. He stares straight ahead as speed runs hard through his brain. The sensation is electric but he knows he has a job to do."
From "Wonderland" by Sean O'Leary.
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Hot under the Collar
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June 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 2: Hot Under the Collar
"Travis says nothing as gets his breath back. He stares straight ahead as speed runs hard through his brain. The sensation is electric but he knows he has a job to do."
From "Wonderland" by Sean O'Leary.
sudojournal.com/hot-under-th...
Volume 2: Hot Under the Collar
"Travis says nothing as gets his breath back. He stares straight ahead as speed runs hard through his brain. The sensation is electric but he knows he has a job to do."
From "Wonderland" by Sean O'Leary.
sudojournal.com/hot-under-th...
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 4: Touch Wood
"Her child—starving on airless blood
Her breath—uncaught and drowned
Her breasts—buoyed and bloated
Not sculpted"
From "Women of Pearling: Bedford Park" by CE Collins, in Sūdō Journal volume 4.
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Volume 4: Touch Wood
"Her child—starving on airless blood
Her breath—uncaught and drowned
Her breasts—buoyed and bloated
Not sculpted"
From "Women of Pearling: Bedford Park" by CE Collins, in Sūdō Journal volume 4.
sudojournal.com/touch-wood-2/
Touch Wood
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June 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 4: Touch Wood
"Her child—starving on airless blood
Her breath—uncaught and drowned
Her breasts—buoyed and bloated
Not sculpted"
From "Women of Pearling: Bedford Park" by CE Collins, in Sūdō Journal volume 4.
sudojournal.com/touch-wood-2/
Volume 4: Touch Wood
"Her child—starving on airless blood
Her breath—uncaught and drowned
Her breasts—buoyed and bloated
Not sculpted"
From "Women of Pearling: Bedford Park" by CE Collins, in Sūdō Journal volume 4.
sudojournal.com/touch-wood-2/
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Vol 4: Touch Wood
"I am, by nature or by trauma (or both) a competitive perfectionist type, with the added bonus of low self-esteem. So when I look at my art, I always think it's not good enough."
From "Change is Coming, Change is Here" by Rebekah Lisciandro.
Vol 4: Touch Wood
"I am, by nature or by trauma (or both) a competitive perfectionist type, with the added bonus of low self-esteem. So when I look at my art, I always think it's not good enough."
From "Change is Coming, Change is Here" by Rebekah Lisciandro.
Touch Wood
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May 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Vol 4: Touch Wood
"I am, by nature or by trauma (or both) a competitive perfectionist type, with the added bonus of low self-esteem. So when I look at my art, I always think it's not good enough."
From "Change is Coming, Change is Here" by Rebekah Lisciandro.
Vol 4: Touch Wood
"I am, by nature or by trauma (or both) a competitive perfectionist type, with the added bonus of low self-esteem. So when I look at my art, I always think it's not good enough."
From "Change is Coming, Change is Here" by Rebekah Lisciandro.
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The Australian première of Existence is Resistance with @louisarmand.bsky.social in the heart of the nation's cultural scene (i.e. Townsville, northern Queensland), courtesy of @sudojournal.bsky.social with support from FALS and Mary Who? Bookshop
May 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Australian première of Existence is Resistance with @louisarmand.bsky.social in the heart of the nation's cultural scene (i.e. Townsville, northern Queensland), courtesy of @sudojournal.bsky.social with support from FALS and Mary Who? Bookshop
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"O but that thump thump thump
Is only the cry of life awaiting
Death.
The pulse of these veins
Pumps in vain like anchors
Drowing in a well."
From "Sinking" by Toddryck Noël, in Sūdō Journal volume 1.
Volume 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"O but that thump thump thump
Is only the cry of life awaiting
Death.
The pulse of these veins
Pumps in vain like anchors
Drowing in a well."
From "Sinking" by Toddryck Noël, in Sūdō Journal volume 1.
Blood, Sweat and Tears
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May 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"O but that thump thump thump
Is only the cry of life awaiting
Death.
The pulse of these veins
Pumps in vain like anchors
Drowing in a well."
From "Sinking" by Toddryck Noël, in Sūdō Journal volume 1.
Volume 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"O but that thump thump thump
Is only the cry of life awaiting
Death.
The pulse of these veins
Pumps in vain like anchors
Drowing in a well."
From "Sinking" by Toddryck Noël, in Sūdō Journal volume 1.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Vol 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"The men and machines were moved out and the land the airfields sat on sold off. For many fields this was the inevitable outcome; Reid River was no different."
From "A Retrospective..." by Andrew Sibley.
Vol 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"The men and machines were moved out and the land the airfields sat on sold off. For many fields this was the inevitable outcome; Reid River was no different."
From "A Retrospective..." by Andrew Sibley.
Blood, Sweat and Tears
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May 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Vol 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"The men and machines were moved out and the land the airfields sat on sold off. For many fields this was the inevitable outcome; Reid River was no different."
From "A Retrospective..." by Andrew Sibley.
Vol 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears
"The men and machines were moved out and the land the airfields sat on sold off. For many fields this was the inevitable outcome; Reid River was no different."
From "A Retrospective..." by Andrew Sibley.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
"A policeman arrived just in time, yet he did not clap a single man into handcuffs. Instead he simply clapped. Elsie was dumbstruck; he had actually given the mob a round of applause."
"Here on the Home Front" by Rodney Williams.
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"A policeman arrived just in time, yet he did not clap a single man into handcuffs. Instead he simply clapped. Elsie was dumbstruck; he had actually given the mob a round of applause."
"Here on the Home Front" by Rodney Williams.
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May 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
"A policeman arrived just in time, yet he did not clap a single man into handcuffs. Instead he simply clapped. Elsie was dumbstruck; he had actually given the mob a round of applause."
"Here on the Home Front" by Rodney Williams.
sudojournal.com/burning-brid...
"A policeman arrived just in time, yet he did not clap a single man into handcuffs. Instead he simply clapped. Elsie was dumbstruck; he had actually given the mob a round of applause."
"Here on the Home Front" by Rodney Williams.
sudojournal.com/burning-brid...
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 4: Touch Wood
""Honestly,” the internet sensation demanded of its audience, “haven’t you anything better to do? Read Voltaire. Read Wittgenstein. Read. Anything. You plonkers.”"
From "Possum Hunt" by Jane Downing.
Volume 4: Touch Wood
""Honestly,” the internet sensation demanded of its audience, “haven’t you anything better to do? Read Voltaire. Read Wittgenstein. Read. Anything. You plonkers.”"
From "Possum Hunt" by Jane Downing.
Touch Wood
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April 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 4: Touch Wood
""Honestly,” the internet sensation demanded of its audience, “haven’t you anything better to do? Read Voltaire. Read Wittgenstein. Read. Anything. You plonkers.”"
From "Possum Hunt" by Jane Downing.
Volume 4: Touch Wood
""Honestly,” the internet sensation demanded of its audience, “haven’t you anything better to do? Read Voltaire. Read Wittgenstein. Read. Anything. You plonkers.”"
From "Possum Hunt" by Jane Downing.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 3: Burning Bridges
"And you, Narcissus? You will burn in those foul, dark flames. The forest pool in which you find your deeply loved reflection will evaporate in the heat."
From "Risen" by Amy Windsor.
Volume 3: Burning Bridges
"And you, Narcissus? You will burn in those foul, dark flames. The forest pool in which you find your deeply loved reflection will evaporate in the heat."
From "Risen" by Amy Windsor.
Burning Bridges
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April 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 3: Burning Bridges
"And you, Narcissus? You will burn in those foul, dark flames. The forest pool in which you find your deeply loved reflection will evaporate in the heat."
From "Risen" by Amy Windsor.
Volume 3: Burning Bridges
"And you, Narcissus? You will burn in those foul, dark flames. The forest pool in which you find your deeply loved reflection will evaporate in the heat."
From "Risen" by Amy Windsor.
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Vol 3: Burning Bridges
"She is happy for them. She is happy that their sadness and anxiety was temporary and had a fixed locus. But she is also reminded that her sadness was never their sadness at all."
From "Stop the Bus and Pray for Me" by Lianda Burrows.
shorturl.at/AJZSW
Vol 3: Burning Bridges
"She is happy for them. She is happy that their sadness and anxiety was temporary and had a fixed locus. But she is also reminded that her sadness was never their sadness at all."
From "Stop the Bus and Pray for Me" by Lianda Burrows.
shorturl.at/AJZSW
Burning Bridges
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April 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Vol 3: Burning Bridges
"She is happy for them. She is happy that their sadness and anxiety was temporary and had a fixed locus. But she is also reminded that her sadness was never their sadness at all."
From "Stop the Bus and Pray for Me" by Lianda Burrows.
shorturl.at/AJZSW
Vol 3: Burning Bridges
"She is happy for them. She is happy that their sadness and anxiety was temporary and had a fixed locus. But she is also reminded that her sadness was never their sadness at all."
From "Stop the Bus and Pray for Me" by Lianda Burrows.
shorturl.at/AJZSW
We want to read your work! Submissions are now open for Sūdō Journal volume 6: "Disconnect." Submissions close June 30, 2025 for our December 2025 issue.
sudojournal.com/submissions
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April 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
We want to read your work! Submissions are now open for Sūdō Journal volume 6: "Disconnect." Submissions close June 30, 2025 for our December 2025 issue.
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FROM THE ARCHIVE
Vol 3: Burning Bridges
"Suddenly he hoisted the sledgehammer over his head then brought it down top of the TV with impressive force and stunning violence."
From "Uncle Kev" by Peter Horgan.
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Vol 3: Burning Bridges
"Suddenly he hoisted the sledgehammer over his head then brought it down top of the TV with impressive force and stunning violence."
From "Uncle Kev" by Peter Horgan.
shorturl.at/AJZSW
Burning Bridges
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April 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Vol 3: Burning Bridges
"Suddenly he hoisted the sledgehammer over his head then brought it down top of the TV with impressive force and stunning violence."
From "Uncle Kev" by Peter Horgan.
shorturl.at/AJZSW
Vol 3: Burning Bridges
"Suddenly he hoisted the sledgehammer over his head then brought it down top of the TV with impressive force and stunning violence."
From "Uncle Kev" by Peter Horgan.
shorturl.at/AJZSW
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In case you missed it: Jade Croft and I wrote a piece on our experiences of studying the humanities in regional Australia and how they are at the pointy end of a long, international decline in the humanities in the English-speaking world
doi.org/10.56449/146...
doi.org/10.56449/146...
Situating Narratives of Decline: Surveying the Literature of Crisis from a Regional Humanities Student Perspective – AHR
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April 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
In case you missed it: Jade Croft and I wrote a piece on our experiences of studying the humanities in regional Australia and how they are at the pointy end of a long, international decline in the humanities in the English-speaking world
doi.org/10.56449/146...
doi.org/10.56449/146...
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Vol 2: Hot Under the Collar
"The feeling I had was akin to that feeling you get when you’re watching a movie with your parents and a sex scene comes on. It was silently, yet undeniably, awkward."
"Ways of Seeing Sex" by Emma Maguire.
Vol 2: Hot Under the Collar
"The feeling I had was akin to that feeling you get when you’re watching a movie with your parents and a sex scene comes on. It was silently, yet undeniably, awkward."
"Ways of Seeing Sex" by Emma Maguire.
Hot under the Collar
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April 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Vol 2: Hot Under the Collar
"The feeling I had was akin to that feeling you get when you’re watching a movie with your parents and a sex scene comes on. It was silently, yet undeniably, awkward."
"Ways of Seeing Sex" by Emma Maguire.
Vol 2: Hot Under the Collar
"The feeling I had was akin to that feeling you get when you’re watching a movie with your parents and a sex scene comes on. It was silently, yet undeniably, awkward."
"Ways of Seeing Sex" by Emma Maguire.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 2: Hot Under the Collar
"A silver mask, eerily animated, in perfect repose, faces the worshippers. Serene and benign but still powerful. Enduring."
From "Take Me to Church" by Tina Morganella, in Sudo Journal volume 2.
Volume 2: Hot Under the Collar
"A silver mask, eerily animated, in perfect repose, faces the worshippers. Serene and benign but still powerful. Enduring."
From "Take Me to Church" by Tina Morganella, in Sudo Journal volume 2.
Hot under the Collar
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March 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 2: Hot Under the Collar
"A silver mask, eerily animated, in perfect repose, faces the worshippers. Serene and benign but still powerful. Enduring."
From "Take Me to Church" by Tina Morganella, in Sudo Journal volume 2.
Volume 2: Hot Under the Collar
"A silver mask, eerily animated, in perfect repose, faces the worshippers. Serene and benign but still powerful. Enduring."
From "Take Me to Church" by Tina Morganella, in Sudo Journal volume 2.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 4: Touch Wood
"The tree has arms.
The sky has eyes.
We will drink water from
the river,
on the way to ourselves."
From "Two Poems Translated in English with the Original in Russian" by Ivan de Monbrison, in Sudo Journal v4.
Volume 4: Touch Wood
"The tree has arms.
The sky has eyes.
We will drink water from
the river,
on the way to ourselves."
From "Two Poems Translated in English with the Original in Russian" by Ivan de Monbrison, in Sudo Journal v4.
Touch Wood
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March 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Volume 4: Touch Wood
"The tree has arms.
The sky has eyes.
We will drink water from
the river,
on the way to ourselves."
From "Two Poems Translated in English with the Original in Russian" by Ivan de Monbrison, in Sudo Journal v4.
Volume 4: Touch Wood
"The tree has arms.
The sky has eyes.
We will drink water from
the river,
on the way to ourselves."
From "Two Poems Translated in English with the Original in Russian" by Ivan de Monbrison, in Sudo Journal v4.
"And the space and the heavy air / of the cabin / envelops us / with something infinite / like an insatiable / feeling of love."
Read "Listening to A Moon Shaped Pool by Anton Lushankin in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
Read "Listening to A Moon Shaped Pool by Anton Lushankin in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
Eras
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February 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"And the space and the heavy air / of the cabin / envelops us / with something infinite / like an insatiable / feeling of love."
Read "Listening to A Moon Shaped Pool by Anton Lushankin in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
Read "Listening to A Moon Shaped Pool by Anton Lushankin in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
"Bodies engineered for production redefine themselves through the mechanics of attachment, of the experience of palatable human emotions. The slow progression of love, artificial skin finding humanity, is an act of creation. Life is formed, captured, through deviation."
February 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"Bodies engineered for production redefine themselves through the mechanics of attachment, of the experience of palatable human emotions. The slow progression of love, artificial skin finding humanity, is an act of creation. Life is formed, captured, through deviation."
"He fumbled a large ring on which two dozen keys hung, and riffled through them like a cumbersome deck of cards. When the right key clinked inside the latch, the door swung with the ungracefulness of a dust storm."
February 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"He fumbled a large ring on which two dozen keys hung, and riffled through them like a cumbersome deck of cards. When the right key clinked inside the latch, the door swung with the ungracefulness of a dust storm."
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👍 AI mirage
👎 AI hallucination
So many have objected to "hallucination" as a description of faulty AI outputs. We need a term that doesn't suggest conscious delusion.
@xolotl.org and I analyzed 80+ alternatives and settled on "mirage."
We make the case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
👎 AI hallucination
So many have objected to "hallucination" as a description of faulty AI outputs. We need a term that doesn't suggest conscious delusion.
@xolotl.org and I analyzed 80+ alternatives and settled on "mirage."
We make the case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
February 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
👍 AI mirage
👎 AI hallucination
So many have objected to "hallucination" as a description of faulty AI outputs. We need a term that doesn't suggest conscious delusion.
@xolotl.org and I analyzed 80+ alternatives and settled on "mirage."
We make the case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
👎 AI hallucination
So many have objected to "hallucination" as a description of faulty AI outputs. We need a term that doesn't suggest conscious delusion.
@xolotl.org and I analyzed 80+ alternatives and settled on "mirage."
We make the case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"In the brief moment of unconsciousness, the world around us is quiet, still. And when my mother wakes, the effort to see, to hear, to breathe is so immense that she contemplates, briefly, if she should let the falling snow kiss her skin into oblivion."
February 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"In the brief moment of unconsciousness, the world around us is quiet, still. And when my mother wakes, the effort to see, to hear, to breathe is so immense that she contemplates, briefly, if she should let the falling snow kiss her skin into oblivion."
"I like to leave it bare as words / on a tomb, death, the place / where no one wants to follow."
Read "Follow" by Nancy Anne Miller in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
Read "Follow" by Nancy Anne Miller in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
Eras
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February 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
"I like to leave it bare as words / on a tomb, death, the place / where no one wants to follow."
Read "Follow" by Nancy Anne Miller in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
Read "Follow" by Nancy Anne Miller in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
"The physical approach enriches this recirculation while creating space for interpretation and discussion, functioning as a distancing or defamiliarisation effect in the style of Epic Theatre."
February 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"The physical approach enriches this recirculation while creating space for interpretation and discussion, functioning as a distancing or defamiliarisation effect in the style of Epic Theatre."
"Pop was the most accessible of magic spells because, like a spell, one had to repeat a string of words, and like an incantation, it worked something improbable on the body, a sensation akin to fever, an illness that sedated the brain and worked every limb to the extreme."
February 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
"Pop was the most accessible of magic spells because, like a spell, one had to repeat a string of words, and like an incantation, it worked something improbable on the body, a sensation akin to fever, an illness that sedated the brain and worked every limb to the extreme."