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. 15
October 2025

Human Being

By Matthew

As I come back to jail, I walk through that familiar door, I promised my mum and kids, I wouldn’t break the law.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025

Heroin

By Natasha and Mikayla

Behold my friend, I am heroin, known by all as the destroyer of men. From where I came no one knows, a far away place where the poppies grow.

3 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025

Getting Closer

By Lanie

It’s been almost 10 years now, since my life has changed. For better or worse, nothing will ever be the same.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025

The Struggle

By Travis

I fall, twisting and spinning in duress, a darkness complete, vast and eternal. An emptiness felt, thick as molasses, noises and sounds rend my mind infernal.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025

Precious

By Kaiya

Do not cry by the window, gazing out to the sky. For I’ve not only left you, I’ll never say goodbye.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025

Window Pane

By Kelly

Window Pane is a reflection of childhood memories, looking outside of my bedroom, locked away.

1 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025

Nowhere to Go?

By Bukks

Nowhere to go, as the new day is here? Holding on as the last threads, of my dreams disappear.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025

The Crux

By Belly

Givin’ my mum a hug, even for just a second. That’s worth a lot, worth the world I reckon.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025

Life of a Prisoner

Anonymous

‘Tis just another day behind the wall, with musters here and musters there, it surely wearies, one and all.

2 MIN READ
ISSUE NO. 14
September 2025

Life’s Not a Party

By Aidan

Life’s not a party my dearest darling, for we partied, now must you party alone.

1 MIN READ

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