Our innaugral issue features memoir by Gemma Carey, poetry by Phoebe Lupton and Eliza Nimmo, and fiction by Ali Alizadeh and Jackson Payne.
Contact the editorial team to access Issue 1 and be fascinated by dark and intelligent writing from Australia.
Issue 1
Q+A
Paul Rasche
June 2025
Paul Rasche’s illustrations, cartoons and graphic design are dark and wicked in humour. Ben O'Mara asked him to share what helps him with his work.
PERSPECTIVE
Megan Cook
June 2025
The quiet rituals of the home can help the mundane become meaningful, and ordinary moments hold sacred power, especially in the journey through winter.
REVIEW
Ali Alizadeh
January 2025
Pascal Plantea's film Les Chambres Rogues (Red Rooms) takes viewers on a terrifying journey into mental spaces as dark as the horrors of the dark web.
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