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Loom Literary Journal
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⚪️ an interdisciplinary literary journal ⚪️
🎶 submissions for ‘quaver’ now open🎶
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On a hike you hear birdsong—first kookaburra, then raven, then something you don’t recognise, then magpie warbles, gang-gang creaks—pouring forth from a single source. Your uncle found a lyrebird feather nearby, but has never knowingly seen or heard them before. The sound feels like a magic trick; you can understand being seduced by it. If a lo-fi beat hip-hopped with no-one around to study it, would it still make a sound? Everything in creation is noisy, from the hum of a blackhole to the pulse of blood in your ears. The spring burbles into the stream babbling to the river roaring to the ocean, where cetacean songs rise from mystical depths, evaporate in the whisper of sea foam, and then come raining back to earth to fill a lake where you skip a rock to make a harmony with the surface... plip-plip-plip- plonk! You’re standing right at the back and someone passes you a tub of earplugs. The same six guys just switching between sets all day. They’re a duo, and now they’re a four-piece band. You find the earplugs in your pocket the next weekend: there’s a new set of guys, a disco ball, a bassist who smiles.
May 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Quaver sounds like quarter, although it is actually a half or an eighth, depending on what you’re dividing. Imagine being American and using measurements for music—‘full note’, ‘half note’ etc. Imagine being American—apparently they don’t like P!nk as much over there, or Kylie, or Robbie. What other celebrities should be represented by animals in their biopics, or toys, like Pharrell. It is easy to understand how a pipe organ would reinforce belief in God. The Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ was refurbished in 2001—debuting with a commission from Phillip Glass. Glass was flown out—first class tickets funded by wealthy benefactors he had picked up when he still drove cabs, they’d just seen Einstein at the Beach. Or at least that’s the story that is told to emerging arts workers learning to build philanthropic relationships.
May 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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May 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Adalya Nash Hussein—Editor and Publisher Adalya is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Liminal, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging and others. It has also been shortlisted for the KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize and the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. She has been the Editor of Voiceworks and The Victorian Writer, Managing Editor at Australian Poetry, a Co-Editor at Liminal, a Guest Editor of Debris Magazine and The Circular, and an Online Co-Editor of The Lifted Brow. Hasib Hourani — Poetry Editor Hasib is a writer and editor based on Wangal Country. He has served as online editor at The Lifted Brow (2019–2020) and Voiceworks (2020–2021) and was the guest Co-Editor of Debris Magazine Issue 04: Illuminated Manuscript. His debut book, rock flight, was released with Giramondo in 2024 and has been shortlisted for the 2025 VPLA for Poetry. His work has been published in Meanjin, Overland and Going Down Swinging among others. Mira Schlosberg — Fiction & Comics Editor Mira is a writer, artist, cartoonist, zine-maker and editor. She served on the Voiceworks magazine Editorial Committee from 2016–2018 and was Editor of Voiceworks from 2018–2020. She has also worked as a subeditor for Gusher magazine. Mira is the author of Guidebook to Queer Jewish Spirituality (2018) and Kugel Western (2021), both from Glom Press. Selena Repanis — Designer Selena is a graphic designer. She has experience working with clients across the Australian arts and literary landscape, writing for and producing creative campaigns in the not-for-profit sector, and teaching Bachelor of Design students at Monash University. Selena has designed for Voiceworks, the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Gusher, Safe and Equal and others. In August, she will be moving to Estonia to study her Masters of Art (Graphic Design.)
May 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM