Author name: Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn

Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn is a Tasmanian-based writer with recent pieces published in The Big Issue and Meanjin, about sex work and lesbian poetry respectively. Her essays, stories and criticism have won the Scribe Nonfiction Prize, the Ultimo Prize and a fellowship with the Sydney Review of Books. She is currently working on a novel about music and guest editing nonfiction for Island Magazine. In her day job she sells flowers—you can usually find her snipping mountain gum on a highway somewhere.

Retrograde

Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn

Fog is water’s quietest form. It makes no noise and has no outline, save for the shadows cast through it by crepuscular rays of sun. In many ways, fog simply is. It dwells between a state of light and dark, gas and liquid.

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Beach

Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn

A sadness attacked him when he saw the gyre of fish, the salmon that were meant to leap from waterfalls and oceanic currents across the Atlantic and back to the freshwater creek of their birthplace, only they were devolving in the same churning circle, like a never-ending dance.

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