Erica Wheadon taking The High Road in StylusLit

Erica Wheadon is a graduate from Deakin’s writing program. She talks of herself on her website here, and describes a previous internship through Deakin here.

Her creative nonfiction essay The High Road has just been published in StylusLit, which is an Australian, bi-annual online literary journal, publishing poetry, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative non-fiction, interviews and reviews.

This opening extract suggests travelling to here to read the full work:

https://ericawheadon.com/

https://ericawheadon.com/

Down the road, there is a beach of white sand, palm-fringed, a great ocean of blue. I wander from room to room of my Airbnb, grief leaking from me—a slow drip. I check my phone, again.

Finding some resolve, I wedge a book of poems and two cameras into my backpack, lock the door to my coastal bungalow and head out. Despite the brilliant early-Spring colours of the tropics, all I make are black and white images; the familiarity of monotone, jetties and beaches hiding under thick grain, the white noise of waiting.