"A periodical that moves restlessly, thrillingly among its interests and concerns...the Sydney-based
Contrappasso publishes international writing of the highest order."
Los Angeles Review of Books.
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70 writers, working in 7 languages, hailing from Australia, New Zealand, China, Malaysia, Iraq, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Russia, the UK, Ireland, the USA and Argentina.
ISSUE 8
Interview with F. H. Batacan; fiction by Roberto Arlt, Andrea Pasion-Flores, Rick DeMarinis, Kent Harrington; Morris Lurie tribute; poetry by Alicia Aza, Blanca Castellón, Geng Xiang, Lu Ye, Mary MacPherson, Sascha Morrel, Frank Russo, Floyd Salas, Paolo Totaro, and more.
WRITERS AT THE MOVIES
Essays by Luc Sante, Sarah Berry, Richard Lowenstein, Richard Hugo, Clive Sinclair, Michael Eaton, Jon Lewis, Anthony May; fiction by Barry Gifford; poetry by Michael Atkinson, R. Zamora Linmark, and James Franco; and interviews with Jonathan Rosenbaum, Emmanuel Mouret, Scott Simmon, and Richard Misek. Edited by Noel King & Matthew Asprey Gear.
ISSUE 6
Interviews with Judith Beveridge, Lawrence Block and Jose Dalisay. New fiction by Mitsuyo Kakuta, Álvaro Bisama, Jon A. Jackson and R. Zamora Linmark. Poetry by Elizabeth Smither, Iain Britton and Stephen Oliver, Flora Delalande, Penny Florence, Ouyang Yu, Richard James Allen, Stuart Barnes, Jamie Grant, Siobhan Hodge, Frank Russo and Les Wicks.
NOIR ISSUE
A grab-bag of essays, interviews, and classic and new noir poetry. Contributors include: Luc Sante, Suzanne Lummis, Nicholas Christopher, Barry Gifford, Morris Lurie, Dahlia Schweitzer & Toby Miller, Andrew Nette. Interviews with Dennis McMillan and Adrian Wootton. Edited by Matthew Asprey & Noel King.
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ISSUE 4
Featuring: Writings in memory of Seamus Heaney; the Crate-Diggers' Symposium; fiction by Juan Villoro, Clive Sinclair, and Elisabeth Murray; poetry by Mira Peck, Hong Ying, Mikhail Yeryomin, Rogelio Guedea, Morris Lurie, Floyd Salas, Tegan Jane Schetrumpf, and more.
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ISSUE 3
Featuring: Guadalupe Nettel's memoir of the late Carlos Fuentes; an essay and poetry by Robert Gray; fiction by Lester Goran and John Hughes; artwork by Clinton Walker and Marco Luccio; and poetry by Rebecca Lehmann, Sergio Badilla Castillo, John Bryson, Geoff Page, Mira Peck, Giorgio Orelli, Shaindel Beers, and others.
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ISSUE 2
Featuring: Interviews with Elmore Leonard and Clive Sinclair; work by David Thomson, Chris Andrews, Floyd Salas, Peter Doyle, Clive Sinclair, Antigone Kefala, Mark O'Connor, and others.
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ISSUE 1
Featuring: James Crumley, Lester Goran, Floyd Salas, Peter Doyle, Mimi Lipson, Vanessa Berry, and more.
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Contrappasso Magazine: International Writing 
Hi. Great mag. where in Melbourne can i buy printed copy?
Hi Loulou,
At the moment there is no printed copy for sale in any Melbourne bookshop. There are copies for sale in Sydney at Gleebooks (Glebe) and Better Read Than Dead (Newtown). If you’re not comfortable ordering a copy directly from Amazon.com (US), contact either of the two Sydney bookshops and they may be able to ship you a copy.