ISSUE NO. 26
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The Power of Writing

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Anthony

Anthony writes from a prison in VIC.

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I’d like to give a shout-out to Vanessa from prison in WA and welcome to About Time. I discovered About Time early last year 2025 and always look forward each month for the read. Last year in two seperate issues I had stories published and seeing them in the national prison newspaper was the best feeling.

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I’ve always had a love for writing but never had the time, now incarcerated I have nothing but time so I decided to put pen to paper and with two stories published I am now working on writing a book.

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Sometimes when we write something worth publishing it is when we least expect it. For me writing is a powerful tool that helps with my mental health.

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Keep up the good work and never give up writing, I look forward to future stories.

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Anthony, from Victoria

This
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was originally printed in the
September 2026
edition of About Time.
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So the parole referred me to seek out a security classification to be possibly considered for low security.

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