ISSUE NO. 22
MAY 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 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.

ISSUE NO. 22
2 MIN READ
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.

ISSUE NO. 22
1 MIN READ
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.

ISSUE NO. 22
1 MIN READ

Previous Editions

ISSUE NO. 21
April 2026

Art From Inside

By Lanie

Our team was blown away by this beautiful painting.

1 MIN READ
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

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