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. 20
March 2026

‘I Still Stand Tall Like A Tall Oak Tree’

By Little Savage

Being in prison is lonely at night. It’s waiting for letters that friends and family forget to write. It’s sitting around with nothing to do just figuring out who is who.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 20
March 2026

Prison Is Not Fun

By Matt

Prison is not fun, prison is not jolly, there’s rarely any smiles and for the tears, bring your brolly. Prison is dirty and prison is hard, lose focus for a minute and get done in the yard.

3 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 19
February 2026

Edward’s Recipes

By Edward

A delicious recipe from inside.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 19
February 2026

Sound Advice

By A.S.P.

Life is only short my son, with so many paths to take, life is an uphill struggle, with every step you make. That’s why you must treasure life, with every second of the day, because you may never know, when it’s your turn to go away.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 19
February 2026

For Theo

By Alexandra

I dream, and think, and feel from the opposite side of the city, in a cell of grey and steel, about our home – peaceful and pretty.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 19
February 2026

Less

By John

The outside on the inside, steals passion for fun. When arrows come from far and wide, facing the new shiny sun, with dignity. There are ribbons in the fire, and lives still painfully on hold. Beneath the folds of desire, the barred windows still remain cold indefinitely.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 19
February 2026

Trapped Away

By CJ

I’ve done almost 10 years in prison and I’m totally done with it now and can’t wait to be out away from this place.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 18
January 2026

Hope

By Elijah

From good to bad, and up to down, life twisted us around, now here we stand.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 18
January 2026

Emotions, Love and Hate

By A

Love's last pain; It is everything. It is nothing. It is unbearable.

2 MIN READ

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