ISSUE NO. 27
October 2026
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Creative

This section publishes creative contributions mostly from currently and formerly incarcerated people. It includes short-stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, and much more.

If you have something creative to submit to us, we would love to read it, or see it, and publish it in About Time – please write to us!

Latest

By Janali

Cold blows the wind tonight, sweetheart, cold are the drops of rain, cold are the four walls of my cell, so cold I shall remain.

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By Elijah

These “emotions” that carry me. It’s from these that you see me. Let not what you see, be all I can be. I’m so much more, this isn’t all.

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By Gema

A girl trying to find her soul, an escape with rope and toe up a tree, a knot a swing.

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By Minh

No mail, no bail, just jail. Hail and rain, rain and suffering, silently ingrained.

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By Emily

Shout out to all you maintenance workers, from painting to plumbing, youse know you’re the reasons these places don’t collapse in on us!

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Previous Editions

ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025
Heroin
By Natasha and Mikayla

Behold my friend, I am heroin, known by all as the destroyer of men. From where I came no one knows, a far away place where the poppies grow.

3 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025
Getting Closer
By Lanie

It’s been almost 10 years now, since my life has changed. For better or worse, nothing will ever be the same.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025
The Struggle
By Travis

I fall, twisting and spinning in duress, a darkness complete, vast and eternal. An emptiness felt, thick as molasses, noises and sounds rend my mind infernal.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025
Precious
By Kaiya

Do not cry by the window, gazing out to the sky. For I’ve not only left you, I’ll never say goodbye.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025
Window Pane
By Kelly

Window Pane is a reflection of childhood memories, looking outside of my bedroom, locked away.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025
Nowhere to Go?
By Bukks

Nowhere to go, as the new day is here? Holding on as the last threads, of my dreams disappear.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025
The Crux
By Belly

Givin’ my mum a hug, even for just a second. That’s worth a lot, worth the world I reckon.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025
Life of a Prisoner
Anonymous

‘Tis just another day behind the wall, with musters here and musters there, it surely wearies, one and all.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025
Life’s Not a Party
By Aidan

Life’s not a party my dearest darling, for we partied, now must you party alone.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025
The Sun and Moon
By Karie

Regardless of how we are feeling, days still start and end. Regardless of what I do, what others do, what happens to me or what happens to them.

2 MIN READ

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