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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. 27
October 2026
Time Travellers, Don’t Change the Past
By Anonymous

Even if positive life events have been few and far between for YOU/now, the ingenious design of our transport allows you to revisit them time and again.

2 MIN READ
A green charcoal illustration of a first place badge.
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October 2026
Dave’s Drawing
By Dave

I’m sending a drawing I have done – I’ve only been drawing for about eight months now and I’m happy with my progress, as before I could only draw stick figures.

1 MIN READ
A pen line illustration of a koi fish, with a spiral shaped backdrop.
ISSUE NO. 27
October 2026
Vengeance
By Prabhpreet

Today I went down the solitary lane, to seek revenge from who owe me pain. What I saw was horrifying, people gathered there too were crying.

1 MIN READ
An image taken from the ground, looking upward into the tree canopy.
ISSUE NO. 27
October 2026
Don’t Let Life Dim Your Beautiful Light
By Eleanor

Life is what you make it, my friend. The only opinion that should matter is your own. Why? Because beauty is in the beholder’s eyes and in the end, the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

1 MIN READ
A pen illustration of a smiling flower.
ISSUE NO. 27
October 2026
My Reflection in a Metal Mirror
By Kelli

My life confined to a white sack, they dress us all the same. The sack is heavy, dragged around, but weighs less than my shame.

1 MIN READ
An image of a woman's face reflected in a piece of a mirror. You can see the woman holding the piece of glass in the middle of the frame.
ISSUE NO. 26
September 2026
Aztec Warrior II
By Leonor

Somebody’s Daughter Theatre offers women within the prison system in Victoria, the opportunity to participate in weekly art workshops.

2 MIN READ
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September 2026
Heart On My Sleeve
By Martin

I’m a rapper and I thought I’d share one of the songs I’ve written.

3 MIN READ

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