Annabelle Bullock 4/29/26 Annabelle Bullock 4/29/26

Is Being Gay Cool Now?

Or maybe it’s not the fact of ‘gayness’ itself that’s cool, but the cultural cachet earned from having gay people in your social circle, however tenuous or protracted that proximity might be?

Roxy Lees 4/29/26 Roxy Lees 4/29/26

Thinking Inside The Box

The noise of the alarm is screeching. It's insistent, it’s ringing louder than my voice. Somebody else has to hear it. Someone has to find me.

Alby Bennett 4/29/26 Alby Bennett 4/29/26

I Have So Much To Tell You

In primary school I had a project on endangered animals. I chose the butterfly fish and made him the star of my live-action film.

Lily Wroblewski 4/29/26 Lily Wroblewski 4/29/26

Becoming Pink

My dance with the Pink Masked Woman was my access point into a side of my feminine that had been curled into a ball, rolling from place to place.

Luke Westwood 4/29/26 Luke Westwood 4/29/26

Implosionworld

Through the settling rubble, an epic collage of pop singer-songwriting opus, Taylor Swift, chimes in and is unphased.

Simone Wong 4/29/26 Simone Wong 4/29/26

Forked Tongue

They say snakes are an evolutionary asset to human beings.

William Winter 4/29/26 William Winter 4/29/26

Inner West Uber Pool

“I hated my old job. I was holed up in an office, and all of the people I worked with only talked about work. Work work work. I hated it.”

Jasmin Muhidin 4/29/26 Jasmin Muhidin 4/29/26

Gone Fishin’

Borrowed rods balanced between our fingers, lines disappearing into the dark like quiet questions.

Soraya Moore 4/29/26 Soraya Moore 4/29/26

Offerings

Today, I have woken up in a woman’s body. I have yet to learn to use it.

Baxter Mitchell-Knight 4/29/26 Baxter Mitchell-Knight 4/29/26

The Universe is Not in the Cedars

So when I find my mouth drying up, when I want to substitute the sun for an egg yolk in the sky, I count it time to get to nature.

Amelia Elliott 4/29/26 Amelia Elliott 4/29/26

An (Un)fortunate Telling

Two chairs sat on either side of a tiny white table that was furnished by a lone candle and one of those acrylic shields they have on the counter at the bank—a sneeze guard, if you will.

Carina Fisk 4/29/26 Carina Fisk 4/29/26

Bodily Vessels

This work explores the intersection between the process of death and the human body through a contemporary reinterpretation of the funerary urn.

Allegra Pezzullo 4/29/26 Allegra Pezzullo 4/29/26

I have never conceptualised hell.

It exists inside sentences and Renaissance paintings; mouths prised open by angels, bodies arranged like furniture with the aesthetic restraint of oil paint.

Sophie Bagster 4/29/26 Sophie Bagster 4/29/26

THREESOME IN ABSENTIA

Ananya Thirumalai 4/29/26 Ananya Thirumalai 4/29/26

Chola

It would be easy to turn this into a story of uncomplicated pride. I resist that turn.

Elle Ngo 4/29/26 Elle Ngo 4/29/26

Blue Space

Quasi‑cyclical with air, pulled in lulls by the moon, water holds the impossible capacity of chaos and order—of infinity.

China Meldrum 4/29/26 China Meldrum 4/29/26

The Sneaker Loafer Arms Race

What are these shoes? Why are they so popular with so many different people? Will they last or be banished to the archives waiting to be picked apart in a journal article in like 40 years or so?