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. 16
November 2025

In My Cell

By Bart

Here I sit inside my cell, thinking to myself, is this Hell? Cold and dark, with a terrible smell. I think it is, only time will tell.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 16
November 2025

I Will Always Love You

By Jack

A poem for the one true love of my life. I wish I could change the past, but I can only change my future.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 16
November 2025

Morgana

By Alex

I remember the day I saw you, I held your tiny form, the chilly air made you tremble, so we took you home.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 16
November 2025

Faith in Recovery

By RB

The pressure of the pain inside, formed diamonds in my mind, tempting me to throw it in, to leave it all behind.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 16
November 2025

An Incarcerated Truth

By Travis

Belief in a future, they do persist, for everyone has the right to exist.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 16
November 2025

Rage on a Saturday Morning

By Georgia Sheales

Locked down for the third time this week, sixth time this past fortnight, with Bird of Prey playing on Rage, the shitty fuzzy speakers on the shitty fuzzy TV barely able to conjure up something that resembles bass.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 15
October 2025

Butterflies

By Wormy

Butterflies, can be the colour of your eyes. They start life as tiny eggs, finally having wings and six legs.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 15
October 2025

The (Powdered) Milky Way

By Jeff

An ode to our last 750-gram powdered milk, taken from our treasured weekly Buy-Up Sheet.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 15
October 2025

The Darkness Returns

By Leslie

Facing the darkness, the pain and cold travelling through the body, the soul taking me back to when I played alone when hell exists, the place my home I spend years, months, days wearing the mask trying to pretend there is no fear or pain.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 15
October 2025

Sam Kerr

By Henry

The big idea behind this painting is to display a very strong, tough Australian sportswoman. Through her athleticism she has helped to inspire a huge number of young Australian girls to take up soccer as their favourite game.

1 MIN READ

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