Jessica Watson 2/15/26 Jessica Watson 2/15/26

Laneway 2026 in the Sun, Rain, and Everything in Between

The sprinkling of water sent outfits into disarray, leaving hair a little more frazzled, makeup a little less blended, and everyone a little more ready to throw themselves around a dance floor.

Matilda Azmi 2/14/26 Matilda Azmi 2/14/26

Everything I Saw at BODIE8

As this performance explored the common myth of the changeling baby, it interrogated the way that myths justify the othering of individuals who live outside of social norms…

Rosanna Chim 2/4/26 Rosanna Chim 2/4/26

The Creatures in my Greenhouse March for Australia

Though some might argue that the roses had it coming, blaming their lack of resistance, too fragrant, too passive, too much.

Annabelle Bullock 2/4/26 Annabelle Bullock 2/4/26

Love, Death, Knitting

I still had bell hooks. And I still had my grandma. Knitting’s always helped, too.

Sonal Kamble 2/4/26 Sonal Kamble 2/4/26

Fawn

I dream of a deer drowsing, just like me, supine on the side of the road. I don’t know how I know it’s a deer because the figure in the vegetation has no head, but I wait to glimpse the curve of antlers.

Arwen Beaumont-Lee 2/4/26 Arwen Beaumont-Lee 2/4/26

How to figure out the way

Someone left their tarot cards and a book called Narcissism: Denial of the True Self in my room after a party at the old house.

Ege Yurdakul 2/4/26 Ege Yurdakul 2/4/26

11 November 2023

In my memories, we’re still just clueless children climbing water towers, alcohol running in our blood, watching the forest from above, under the summer sun.

Scout Harper May 2/4/26 Scout Harper May 2/4/26

How to be known

A brown glass decanter, bound in red leather. A sleeping pill bottle, unscrewed. A yellow pitcher. An empty toothpaste tube, A lightbulb, illuminated by cool fluorescence.

Jack Davis 2/4/26 Jack Davis 2/4/26

Last Night was a Rhizome: Italo Calvino and Breaking Reality with Serf Fiction

I have spent the past two to three years of my life being Sydney’s biggest Italo Calvino shill.

Bipasha Chakraborty 2/4/26 Bipasha Chakraborty 2/4/26

lost property

As I walk past the Quadrangle every morning, despite the now-manicured lawns, memories of the encampment linger in my mind.

Allegra Pezzullo 2/4/26 Allegra Pezzullo 2/4/26

Confessions with Caroline

She left in a flutter of perfume, cashmere, and the faint clatter of keys. The diffuser exhaled one last measured sigh of peppermint. Dr Clarke capped the pen, glanced at the clock, and opened the next file.

Sasha Blackman 2/4/26 Sasha Blackman 2/4/26

Return to the Playground

As I became older and five cents became an unappealing amount of money to receive for the arduous task of searching for tiny green caterpillars, I no longer wanted to help my mum.

Jesse Carpenter 12/15/25 Jesse Carpenter 12/15/25

LIMERENT LIGHT CONES

O my faun my hunter you are the soul of the whole room yes there is something in you in the curves of your cheekbones and the strands of hair; in pearlescent earrings, in the corners of your face in you, you are the edelweiss on the acme of Qaf or Meru

Ethan Floyd 11/14/25 Ethan Floyd 11/14/25

“A Tomb for the American Middle Class”: SUDS’ The Humans

Part family drama, part psychological thriller, Stephen Karam’s The Humans traps the Blake family in a dilapidated New York apartment for an uneasy Thanksgiving dinner. The play peels back the horror of modern American middle-class life; debt, illness, ageing parents, and unaccomplished dreams.

Matilda Azmi 10/31/25 Matilda Azmi 10/31/25

Cooked

I’m being fed this creator’s short form videos where he turns his New York apartment into a makeshift cafe, baking sweet and savoury treats once a month for his friends and neighbours.

Jeannette Monteiro 10/31/25 Jeannette Monteiro 10/31/25

Cao lầu

The noodles themselves bear marks of the careful, hand-made process; each strand varying in length and thickness, some tinted with a soft green from being steamed over banana leaves.

Urvi Agrawal 10/31/25 Urvi Agrawal 10/31/25

Overthinking: Swimming Dilemmas

I envy those who can just close their eyes and swim.

Ella Kratzer 10/31/25 Ella Kratzer 10/31/25

Theory, Self-Inserted: Practical Investigations of Gender and Sexuality

It’s blue and wriggling. Why is it wriggling? Turn it off, I pray, please let it die.

“Is it freaking you out that this goes in my butt?”

“No,” a little, “that’s awesome, I’ve just never seen one for real… before.”

He presses it to my leg and I feel a trembling in my bones.

Cosmin Luca 10/31/25 Cosmin Luca 10/31/25

Pișatul Pișătorilor/Epitaph of a Flying Mussel

But first, I’m here,
In the free air, free and clean-ish,
Which gives me some time,
A few seconds more,
To piss over their heads,
With real feeling.

Roxy Lees 10/31/25 Roxy Lees 10/31/25

This Subway Sandwich Quiz Can Predict Who Your Favourite Philosopher Is And It’s 98.8% Accurate

Did someone ask you who your favourite philosopher was? Did you get stuck thinking of a name equally pretentious and performative? Answer these questions to find out what your Subway order can reveal. Instant ostentation, no thinking needed!