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. 23
June 2026
‘Tingers’ and the Squirrel Box
By Sara

In Creative Learning we get to see some amazing stuff made by talented people. The best part is hearing the stories behind how creative projects have come to life.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 23
June 2026
Food for Thought
By Grant

Buy-Ups feed my belly, but what about my mind? Wth nothing on the telly, I might as well be blind.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 23
June 2026
Food for Thought…
By Triste

It was November 2025. I had zero dollars in my jail account. Mum sent me some Christmas dollars. I’d just started working and was earning $47.00 per week, plus $9.95 hygiene allowance.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 23
June 2026
The Hunger
By Anonymous

He awoke, annoyed, just able to make out his cellie in the blacked-out gloom. He began to protest, but his spirit soared when he heard the word: “Your library books are here!”

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 23
June 2026
Baking in Boronia
By Chelsea

I hated the kitchen on the outside but have learnt from being inside that it makes me feel wholesome and happy.

ISSUE NO. 23
June 2026
A Memorable Dinner
By Jeff

“I recognise that”, “that’s someone I know”, “I can’t place who, but that is someone’s smell”.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 22
May 2026
‘Love is Rebuilding My Life’
By Phillip

There’s irony, hypocrisy, fallacy, a vast ocean of distance to cross. The “saint”, the “sinner”, it’s lunacy, that the ignorant could save the lost.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 22
May 2026
Methfairytale
By Karie

I’m not belle of the ball, not the very least, but we have something in common, I’m in love with a beast. But the beast is not a person but a drug that I call meth, I’ve been talking to myself for hours, I’m running out of breath.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 22
May 2026
Nostalgia
By Dennis

Nostalgia is a gentle haze, a soft and fading, golden maze, where time itself begins to blur, and memory’s touch is sweet and pure.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 21
April 2026
Art From Inside
By Lanie

Our team was blown away by this beautiful painting.

1 MIN READ

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