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. 21
April 2026
You Don’t Know Your Worth
By Flame

Don't fear my love, everything’s alright. Don't fear my friends, the future looks bright.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 21
April 2026
‘Love Is Blind And It Can Make You See’
By Caleb

Love’s definition cannot be just one, not one, two or more but a tonne. Love is the greatest quality of them all, a verse written by the poet Paul.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 21
April 2026
Apocalypse of the Mind
By Emma-lee

I sit here watching the second-hand ticking by as it slowly keeps passing my time... And just as I thought the world can’t be changed it's an apocalypse of the mind.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 21
April 2026
Music is My Happy Place
By Shea

What a joy it can be, to wrench open your mind and find yourself inhabiting a song. To live out a thousand lives, to know the intimacy of a stranger, and experience nostalgia in such a visceral way for times and places you’ve never been to.

3 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 21
April 2026
My Happy Place
By Nicholas

I hope you all have a place that you can feel your strength from. I wish I had more of these than I do, now he’s gone. Make most of your time people, inside or out – our lives are too short to waste. Find your Happy Place.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 21
April 2026
My Happy Place is the Quiet of Monday
By Trieste

It’s 10am, I am at work deciding if I need coffee to get the jitters, a piece of fruit for some sugary glucose or a peanut butter and jam sandwich.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 21
April 2026
Long Bay Became My Happy Place
By Neale

Maybe the title for this competition should be OUR Happy Place rather than MY Happy Place. As I think it is more about how we approach a place together that determines if we are going to be happy or not.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 21
April 2026
Finding Freedom in Nature
By James

My experience of entering gaol was hazy and blurry. A brick, as they say, is a 10 year term of imprisonment, and getting outta my mind was on my list of things to do, not realising that I would find my true happy place in nature.

2 MIN READ

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