Opening HEAT Series 3 Number 2 is an essay by British novelist Helen Oyeyemi on the electrical wriggle that characterises writing at play. New Zealand writer Pip Adam summons e-scooters to life in Unlock to Ride, and poet Samuel Wagan Watson makes a foray into prose with Min-Min, a flash of a story.
A lovelorn lament set in Sydneys Blue Mountains by Luke Carman follows; then swooping verse from Melbourne poet Michael Farrell; and, finally, fiction by new writer Ren Arcamone that blends the surreal with the everyday.