Ben Walter is a Walkley Award–winning essayist, the author of the short story collection What Fear Was (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022), and a past fiction editor at Island. His writing has recently appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Cimarron Review, 3:AM Magazine, and On This Ground: Best Australian Nature Writing. Walter’s debut poetry collection, Lithosphere, is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann in 2025.
Fiction
Summer 2025
Then There Will Be More Breathing
Nerrida had already fired her brother and mother — returning home at the end of an exhausting day, she’d find them slumped in the living room, barely bothering to keep up the […]