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Dear Reader,
This is a special
issue featuring Steaming Hot Pepperinas prose writers from Newcastle’s
2002 National Young Writers Festival. Edited by Hop Dac and Shane Jesse
Christmass.
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Liebe(r) Leser(in),
dies ist eine Sonderausgabe
mit den Beiträgen der Steaming Hot Pepperinas Prosa Lesungen
vom Newcastle 2002 National Young Writers Festival.
Hrsg. Hop Dac und Shane Jesse Christmass.
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An
introduction to the 26th issue of Gangway
by Hop, Shane
and Gerald. 
 Geoff
Parkes (n) See also Toowoomba; Fuct & Fiction; www.loggedoff.net
(bio taken from This Is Not Art): “It took me some time to learn
bong talk. My friends, including Doc,
who I’ll talk about later, put up with me for a while.”
 Briohny
Doyle is a wannabe 80’s trash nightmare, or so she
would like to think. She writes short stories for fun, book reviews
for ‘voiceworks’, and novels that don’t get published:
“Janet was waiting, alone at the Oil
Spill. Piecing together the events of her afternoon. She had been
going about her usual militant business and was just about to start
internal solidarity time when she had fielded a very interesting phone
call. It was an anonymous call.”
 Hayden
Payne is currently a post-grad student. He lives on the
Darling Escarpment in Western Australia and studies creative fiction
at UWA. He has worked for student and commercial newspapers in Western
Australia and is currently writing his novel on the back of a growing
collection of beer coasters. Creatively he is interested in disjunctive
narratives. But of course all this is rubbish, we don’t evolve.
We accumulate experience like compost. Gathering one moment after another
until the pile of shit is so big that we can never get out from underneath
it. We are left forever to fossick through these remains. Undigested
meals. Lessons learnt and forgotten. Things loved excruciatingly for
one burning moment and then discarded. His piece is titled: The
urban bestiary.
Kami is a drunk poet, zinester
since 1986 (noisenoisenoise, Sprak!, Splatter Videos, Funhouse), not-so-dumb
white boy, jazz fan, old perv. (bio taken from This Is Not Art): THE
DOG-GOD AND ME.
At the moment Sally Hardy,
26, is studying Professional Screenwriting at RMIT in Melbourne. In
the past she has written for the children’s zine ‘Sticky Bun’,
worked as a freelance copywriter and illustrator, and has written and
produced her own plays in Adelaide, where she grew up. She’s currently
writing an animation based on her short story, The
Cull. Lachlan
Williams, a student from Wollongong, sat quietly in the Pepperinas
audience every night and then presented this piece in the final open
mic section: Autumn In New York.
Nicole Gill hunts plants for a
crust. Likes wasabi green peas. Keeps aliens in jars. Dislikes green
beans. Writes when no one else is looking (bio taken from This Is Not
Art). She lives in Tasmania and her text is called: Stalking
Bob.
 Shane
Jesse Christmass is a bloated short story writer. He’s
another 6'8" lanky twit with too many records and literary pretensions.
He’s also a greasy music journalist of ill repute. He titles his
short story: Two Days Out.
 Hop
Dac was born in Vietnam and came to Australia as a refugee
child in 1980. His family settled in the town of Geraldton on the West
Coast of Australia. He has completed a collection of poems called A
Young Man’s Dream, nearly completed a collection titled The Drift,
of Poems, Prose and Prints. He is also writing a novel set in Perth,
called The Reconstructionists. All his creative output explores the
space of the In-Between, the place where things touch and begin to merge,
the linked chain of impetus. He holds an Honours degree in Fine Arts
and currently he is working as an IT Consultant. He writes about Little
Things.
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