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Declan Fry

Declan Fry is an essayist, critic, and proud descendant of the Yorta Yorta. Born on Wongatha country in Kalgoorlie, in 2020 he was selected as an emerging critic for The Age/Sydney Morning Herald and shortlisted for the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award. He currently lives on unceded Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land and is a board member and volunteer at Books ‘n’ Boots, an organisation that mentors young Koories in the West and distributes books and football boots to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across the country. His work has appeared in Meanjin, Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings, Sydney Review of Books, and Overland.

Rawdogging the system: Declan Fry reviews Ender Başkan’s Two Hundred Million Musketeers

Posted on April 1, 2026 by Declan Fry

Ender risks the rawdog. To capture things in mid-flight. It keeps him hungry. Keeps you honest.

What draws Ender to this? Ask Sophia, his partner. She’s 80% rawdog. As in, will “PERFORM ANY ACT RECKLESSLY / OR WITHOUT PREPARATION.” As in: “A MEASURE OF RISK TAKING” (‘Hot Water’, 39).

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Declan Fry Reviews Cham Zhi Yi

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Declan Fry

The reader will have to imagine for themselves what Maria-Àngels Roque, editor-in-chief of Quaderns de la Mediterrània, a twice-yearly journal focused on authors from the Euro-Mediterranean, must have felt upon hearing these words.

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