Winter issue on the stands!

December 2023

The theme is Travel, and we’ll take you from Bulgaria to Belleoram, from the cherry blossoms in Tokyo to a bull ride in Mexico, to childhood and back.

With writing from Edward Riche, Cynthia Boyd, Adam Walsh, and Katie Vautour, and artwork from Jessie Donaldson, Peter Jackson, and Cory Collins – and a gorgeous cover from David Baltzer. Subscriptions are available here, and we have retail outlets across the country. And you can also find us at the St John’s Farmer’s Market Stocking Stuffer Fair this Sunday!

(Cover image: David Baltzer; illustration, Katie Vautour)

Theatre

“Oh, open your mouth / throw back your head”: Oderin premieres in multi-discipline form

Dance, text, and voice are brought together in this new production, a kinetic interpretation of Oderin. This collection, by poet and playwright Agnes Walsh “chronicles her mother’s experience growing up…

Visual Art

Daniel Rumbolt – Forever There

“A reimagining of queer rural identity through traditional techniques and unconventional material exploration, an opulent intervention, a love letter, a reckoning, and a reminder – to be grateful, critical, and…

Non-Fiction Short

Joey the Carver

BY Renee Fancey

Joey sits in soft focus. Behind him, blue skies and bright murals paint a backdrop easily mistaken as exotic. Festival flags rally. Paving stones undulate drunkenly up the lane. Streetlamps, tagged out to the sun, sleep off their graveyard shifts. A canopy of shadows waves like a palm tree.