Amaryllis Gacioppo

Amaryllis Gacioppo is an Italian-Australian writer and translator who lives in Palermo. She is the author of the travel memoir Motherlands (Bloomsbury UK, 2022). Her short fiction and essays have previously appeared in publications such as Granta, Catapult, 3:AM and Meanjin. Currently, she is working on an autofictional historical novel set in Sicily with funding from Creative Australia. (amaryllisgacioppo.com / IG: @amaryllisgacioppo)

The Empty Apse by Maria Messina

Every year, all the nuns would kneel behind the choir grate to see the women and then the priests and then, finally...