Fresh, thoughtful journalism and creative works produced by students
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Creative Nonfiction
Synecdoche Beirut-Sydney
Beirut 1992
Light drizzle taps the blue-eyed girl on the shoulder. With a gleam in her eye and nervous flutter in her chest, she clutches...
Sydney Writers’ Festival: Alisa Sapova and Anastasia Taylor-Lind on 5km From the Frontline
Ukrainian journalist Alisa Sapova and British photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind knew instantly they would be friends.
“Our creative kinship happened by chance,” Taylor-Lind says. “It’s a...
Predictably unpredictable: How Tort Law helps us navigate daily life
Clouds are cobwebbed across the sky and the air fizzes with Friday-afternoon relief. The parents stand in circles, supervising from a distance.
I follow the...
Re-sewn, re-gained, re-claimed
On arrival at Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks, I immediately climb the institution’s squeaky timber staircase to the third floor. Disappointed and then a little...
View of Taiwan from a Taiwanese
It was an unremarkable morning in 2020. The streets were simmering with the daily din of two million commuters and a humid heat characteristic...
Leave the Melbourne Cup alone and focus on the Brumbies
The smell of freshly roasted coffee fills the air of the vibrant café in the small Australian town of Willow Tree. It was the...
Vinyl: the unexpected underdog of the streaming era
In September 2022, Joshua “Josh” Gibbs opened Crosstalk Records in Leichhardt, some 14 years after the record store he worked at as a teenager...
Leppington: Local memories of a dramatically changing suburb
To the average Sydneysider, Leppington will only be recognisable as the terminating station on the T2 Southwest and Inner West Rail Link. Ask a...
