Grace Roodenrys is a writer from Sydney. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Plumwood Mountain, EcoTheo, Riverstone Literary Journal and the anthology Ghost Cities: New Writing from Western Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with honours in English from the University of Sydney and is a 2024 Clarendon scholar at the University of Oxford.
Certain images recur again and again in the work of Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca: moons, doves, flowers, sleepwalkers, dark rivers. There’s a symbolic quality to his work, a search for a deep language in which …
Let’s say a woman loves a man. Let’s even say she’s devoted to him. This is how Birdeater begins, more or less. Young Irene (Shabana Azeez) adores her fiancé, Louie (Mackenzie Fearnley). The two seem a happy enough pair. They …
Ode to Isaiah Walsh begins with a death. Nobody’s grieving, however. It’s 4am in a Manhattan high-rise, and word’s been caught that ageing pop star, SINGER, has turned up dead in his penthouse apartment. An overdose, it seems, according to …