ISSUE NO. 23
JUNE 2026

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 Daniel

The pain that I feel, this place that I’m in, these four walls closing in…

ISSUE NO. 23
2 MIN READ
By Punkin

As this time comes to an end, I wonder which way the next will bend. The earth and moon will do their thing, I’ll embrace everything.

ISSUE NO. 23
2 MIN READ

Previous Editions

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
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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
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

The Silent Path

By Denis

On an icy day, we’ll meet again, on a silent path, free from pain. No greetings spoken, no sparks to fly, just a quiet knowing in each other’s eye.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

Beautiful Souls

By RM

Why should you suffer for my pain. Knowledge in this I should try to gain. Does it feel I have left you alone? It may feel I have cut you to the bone.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

Losing Control

By Goodj

The calls we hear every day, whether guilty or claiming you’re innocent, there’s a price we each must pay. “It’s a privilege not a right” you’ll hear the screws say, but the moment you’re behind those bars, your control is taken away.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

I Will Always Love You

By Jack

A poem for the one true love of my life, I wish I could change the past, but I can only change my future.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

Mistakes (For My Mother Toni)

By Megan

She saw his will and was convinced, she listened to his lies and was convinced, she looked into his eyes and trusted his smiles, she was convinced.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 13
August 2025

Imperious

By Belly

I yearn to spend loving time with my Mother, to reunite with my sister and brother, to introduce my kin to the new man I am.

2 MIN READ

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