Arwen Beaumont-Lee 5/21/26 Arwen Beaumont-Lee 5/21/26

Curse Universal

Alpha widowed and exiled from a dream. Siberian winter delirium, or maybe just mold poisoning.

Ting-Jen (TJ) Kuo 5/21/26 Ting-Jen (TJ) Kuo 5/21/26

Bad Photos

If the year is 2226, and technological imagination has realised itself, and my clone in cryosleep is waiting, eyes closed, for a project of my selfhood to populate her soul, what would it contain?

Sophie Bagster 5/21/26 Sophie Bagster 5/21/26

PASSION 4 FASHUN: Ontology of the slippage (of sorts)

Let me elucidate: I know I shouldn’t be so comfortable sitting right up against strangers on the bus.

Jack Davis 5/21/26 Jack Davis 5/21/26

The Beatification of Sir Donald Bradman

The museum sits adjacent to the oval which, since 1947, has carried Bradman’s name, and where, at age 12, Bradman played his first game of senior cricket for Bowral Cricket Club.

Carmen McPherson 5/21/26 Carmen McPherson 5/21/26

An Unspoken Agreement (with Someone Buried)

It is dangerous, to choke out their dreams in dirty water.

Kit Swingler 5/21/26 Kit Swingler 5/21/26

Dawn Patrol

Ananya Thirumalai 5/21/26 Ananya Thirumalai 5/21/26

Kantara

It is this closeness that makes Kantara so difficult to situate within the familiar stories of Indian cinema, where religion is often rendered as something aestheticised and made legible for a broad audience.

Lucy Horton 5/21/26 Lucy Horton 5/21/26

On Esoterislop

My following applauds, “found footage of griffins” and “me at the Shambhala store”, and that “the scallion is the best-known symbol of beauty and love”.

Xanthe Kibble 5/21/26 Xanthe Kibble 5/21/26

Tube Men

Allegra Pezzullo 5/15/26 Allegra Pezzullo 5/15/26

How Did We Get Here

I stood in the kitchen again, above the spotless countertop.

Rachel Gibson 5/15/26 Rachel Gibson 5/15/26

Historical Hinge

Sick of modern dating? Feeling as though you were “born in the wrong generation”? Perhaps the love of your life is waiting for you in a different time period!

Rosie Ryan 5/15/26 Rosie Ryan 5/15/26

Where is My Muse

Threaded through one is a strip of red satin, its loose ends unravelling, dragging on the floor below.

Hugh Coffey 5/15/26 Hugh Coffey 5/15/26

The Seven Hours In Between

I am worried that we could lose and even more worried that the game will only get to day three.

Mary Koutalianos 5/15/26 Mary Koutalianos 5/15/26

Touch Grass, Eat Flowers

Ambling past the suburban garden, I am content, my eyes feast on the green hedges and the glow of tall-reaching grass in the sun.

Isabella Mitchell 5/15/26 Isabella Mitchell 5/15/26

District One

This series reflects a fear of facing global issues. The luxuries of my world here in Sydney depend on the work of someone else's hands, and then I make collages, from a shallow pool of helpless empathy.

Vance McDonald 5/15/26 Vance McDonald 5/15/26

MJ OVERMAN: The Knowing Artifice of Friedrich Nietzsche and MJ Lenderman

As exciting as Nietzsche’s ideas are to the music Tragic in me, I confess that I have no love for Wagner.

Jessica Crawley 5/15/26 Jessica Crawley 5/15/26

the scarcely known and neatly snowed in

Charlie Bate-Sproston 5/15/26 Charlie Bate-Sproston 5/15/26

Kissing Kens

Instead, the Sydney youth night culture gravitates towards Newtown, popular with queer 20-somethings and teens.