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Rashida Murphy

Rashida Murphy is a writer, poet, reviewer and blogger. She has published her short fiction and poetry in various international literary journals and anthologies, Her debut novel, The Historian’s Daughter was shortlisted in the Scottish Dundee International Book Prize in 2015 Rashida has a Masters in English Literature and a PhD in Writing from Edith Cowan University. She lives in Perth and is currently working on a new novel and a collection of short stories.

Poems for Gaza

i) Dear Gaza When this is over I will come to Beit Lahia and help Mosab plant strawberries for Refaat. I will bring watermelon seeds in embroidered pouches for the children. They need the distraction. I will clear ash from the
January 25, 2024

Recovery

The events of the last few months have been too much. The world has been too much. The Virus. George Floyd. Black Lives Matter. Rio Tinto. 434 Aboriginal deaths in custody. 55 Indian journalists arrested for doing their jobs. Our
October 25, 2020
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Bargaining With The Beast

Mortality isn’t something you think about when you’re seven. Even when your Dadaji dies the year you turn seven. For the rest of your life, you will remember this kind short-sighted man with nausea and outrage. Nausea because he was the first
October 25, 2019