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ISSUE 02
  1. Home
  2. Maisie Broadhead
  3. Avina Tarom
  4. Matte Dixon
  5. Maria Blackman
  6. Benjamin Shaw
  7. Maria Hill
  8. Jessica Fairburn
  9. Melinda Mo
  10. Izma Haider
  11. Haytham Trueheart
  12. Jack Farrugia
  13. Tim Loveday
  14. Charlotte Newman
  15. Kubra Iqbal
  16. Jason Bell
  17. Cas Hugo
  18. Sasha Hart
  19. Ned Forrest
  20. Scarlett Garland
  21. Phoebe Fleming
  22. Ashlee Palmer
  23. Victoria Lawson
  24. Aynie Lane
  25. Magnolia Yang
  26. Julia Twomey
  27. Annabella Tartaria
  28. E.M Bancroft
  29. Asli Idil Kaynar
  30. Anna Merlo
  31. J.R Haro
  32. Mitchell Bombolas
  33. Zoe Mott
  34. Leah Mustard
  35. Heather Wadeson
  36. Finn Newsway
  37. Alex Maclaren
  38. Sharyn Sale
  39. Sarah Birch
  40. Sofia Clarke 
  41. Em Tobin
  42. Zara Martins 
  43. Alex Cooper-Williams
  44. Brittany Bentley
  45. Kristen Flynn
  46. Kaine Green
  47. Phoebe Hancox
  48. MUNTZ.ED
  49. Ciarán 
  50. Mark Rowden
  51. Rose Miho
  52. Kiêu Anh Nguyên
  53. Bert Spinks
  54. Lauren Evans
  55. Sebastian Callum
  56. Anna Coppens
  57. Lorrie Anderson
  58. Catherine Maticka
  59. Sophia Crossing
  60. Britt Vonhoff
  61. Luka Smook
  62. Amy Davidson
  63. Jamie Riddell
  64. Rhys L’Hermite
  65. Rebecca Jacobson
  66. Emily Sherwell
  67. Andrew Potter

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Maisie Broadhead
We were all children once 
Photography and Poetry

Maisie Broadhead is a creative, primarily a musician, living on Kaurna country (Adelaide), making indiefolk music and drawing inspiration from nature and the intricacies of the everyday.

[View Maisie’s Poetry]

Avina Tarom
Hot Girl Summer
Poetry

Avina Tarom (she/her) is a first-generation Australian based in Boorloo (Perth) living on unceded Whadjuk Noongar land. While travelling Europe and enjoying the luxury of flitting between various countries, her mother was simultaneously fleeing a war. Her reflections from this period of conflicting truths have found their way to you. 
[View Avina’s Poetry]


Matte Dixon
Suspiria
Visual Art


Matte Dixon is a Brisbane-based photographic artist whose analogue and alternative processes explore presence, absence, and the unease of what lies beyond perception, grounding his work in philosophical reflections on decay, ambiguity, memory, and the fragile search for meaning. His recent work Suspiria extends this inquiry, by engaging J.P Sartre’s notion that meaning emerges from nothingness, employing tactile analogue images, rich with relic-like atmospheres and gothic tension, guides viewers toward an intuitive confrontation with their own existential concerns.


Maria Blackman
Midas Touch
Poetry

Maria Blackman is a writer and illustrator from Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia). She is currently working on a collection of short fiction.

[View Maria’s Poetry]
Benjamin Shaw
Perfect Blue
Poetry

Benjamin Shaw is a creative writing student from Naarm who loves the nighttime, his friends, and learning new words. 'Perfect Blue' is about feeling trapped in the sticky feeling of regret.


[View Benjamin’s Poetry]


Maria Hill
Siento y siento, 2025
Digital Scans

Artist’s book, inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Book and Album and assorted papers sourced from Takeo and Morita Washi in Japan. Includes hand-processed Kodak 200 C-41 35 mm self-portraits, MiniDV tape performance stills, and bilingual poetry. Handbound with waxed washi thread. Edition of 2 + AP.

Maria Hill (b. 2002) is an Australian-born artist of Argentinian heritage whose practice explores themes of translation, duality, and embodiment. They work across analogue photography, drawing, printmaking (artist's books, papermaking), performance, installation, and time-based media. Hill recently graduated from the Queensland College of Art and Design with a Bachelors in Visual Arts (Photography) in 2025.
Jessica Fairburn
My Mother
Poetry
I am an aspiring poet and literature enthusiast living in Meanjin. I enjoy experimenting with form and content in my writing. This particular piece reworks Shastra Deo’s ‘Mississippi Sound’ through the frame of a Shepherd’s Pie recipe.


[View Jessica’s Poetry]


Melinda Mo
Two of a Kind, 2023
Gouache on paper

Two of a Kind was made as a response to the personal claustrophobia I experienced while living in Gadigal country/Sydney. The humble sardine represents the everyman, placed on the chopping board, ready to be dissected and consumed by unforeseen forces. However, the realistic rendering of the two central figures attempts to capture the tenderness and vulnerability shared between two people. This work attempts to capture the camaraderie created with one another in a world that is completely out of our control. Whatever happens, we’re in this together.
The Daughter of Man, 2023
Oil on paper

This painting was made as a response to the image of a bow as a consumer trend. Bows have always been associated with femininity and innocence. Here, it appears in the foreground, nailed to the forehead of a feminine face staring at the audience. The use of blue and pink are further signifiers of the arbitrary symbols of gender. While the title and composition reference The Son of Man by Rene Magritte to comment on the ubiquity of man as default.




Izma Haider
Passion Play/Ponzi Scheme
&
Private Function
Poetry


Izma Haider lives and works on Wurundjeri country. She is currently studying the conservation of objects. 
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Haytham Trueheart
Domestic Refugee
Poetry


“My name is Haytham Trueheart, I am a poet based in Sydney, Australia. I am Torres Strait Islander—Kiwai, Australian, Aboriginal raised, and Kurdish at heart.”

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Jack Farrugia
I  REMEMBER HONEY
Poetry


Jack Farrugia is a Maltese-Australian poet and playwright. His two books, The Tercets and Salt Flats in Heaven, are published by ICOE Press


[View Jack’s Poetry]

Tim Loveday
This is your chance
Poetry


Tim Loveday is a poet and educator. He won the 2022 & 2024 Dorothy Porter Poetry Awards and the 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, and was a finalist in the 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize and 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize. You can find out more at: timloveday.com.


[View Tim’s Poetry]


Charlotte Newman
Aftermath
40.64 × 60.9 cm, oil on canvas


Charlotte Newman is a Boorloo-based painter whose work explores the intricacies of human interaction, with a particular focus on the quiet moments of reflection familiar to womanhood.



Kubra Iqbal  
 a snapshot of home from a different timeline
Fiction


Kubra is an emerging writer who is finding new ways to utilise their creative writing major. Their piece is a love letter to a home they left behind, noting down every water stain and cracked plaster in a desperate attempt to remember everything.

[View Kubra’s Short Story]
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