Dear... The Friends I've Lost
Dear… the friends I’ve lost, I know times have changed with this newfound normalcy of losing contact, but don’t you remember when we held...
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- Apr 26
- 4 min
M IS FOR MAGGOT
CLARA KRISTANDA | CREATIVES I was born a pile of goo on that perfect, humid night, when the air was fragrant with those summer smells and...
- Nov 30, 2021
- 4 min
What’s Your Flower?
SALIHA REHANAZ | CREATIVES Sunflowers, Lavenders, Pansies and Onions. “Not a red rose or a satin heart, I give you an onion. It is a moon...
- Nov 27, 2021
- 1 min
All the ways to heat your wax strips so the wax actually sticks to your hairs
BRUNA GOMES | CREATIVES Put them in the microwave. Wrap them in a wheat bag that you’ve microwaved. Fold the strips into a towel and...
- Nov 27, 2021
- 1 min
Cousin, for you
ASHLEY DUCK | CREATIVES you are gone and past and yet passing tones on warm breath say never forgotten to me, you are the tide sweeping,...
- Nov 27, 2021
- 1 min
I’m in love with the shape of you
OLIVIA CHAN | CREATIVES It was overplayed at one point, Blending into our social fabric Like small talk he made at a pit stop On the way...
- Nov 27, 2021
- 1 min
The Broken Column
SWAGATALAKSHMI ROYCHOWDHURY | CREATIVES An adaptation of Robert Frost’s poem ‘A Passing Glimpse.’ Trigger warning: Mentions sexual...
- Nov 27, 2021
- 3 min
Homesick
SWAGATALAKSHMI ROYCHOWDHURY | CREATIVES Adrift That day I hopped off the ferry at Manly And strolled past pastel houses… At Manly...
- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
Is It Time?
CREATIVES|KAVERI TALUKDER White rain Against a dark black sky. Muddy dirt Clings to my Worn-out shoes. In I walk To a mirrored hallway,...
- Oct 25, 2021
- 1 min
No Need to Say Goodbye — a thought process, a memory, a nostalgia.
SOFIA IHSAN | CREATIVES It came to me in waves; the unwinded vacations, yawns and packets of chips and chocolates littered across the...
- Oct 25, 2021
- 1 min
Feet
SWAGATALAKSHMI ROYCHOWDHURY | CREATIVES I remember your feet, Grazing past mine Under the table. We were young And we felt it fresh; We...
- Oct 25, 2021
- 1 min
Corn thins
OLIVIA CHAN | CREATIVES a dry crack like the cork on the wall a shy snack is enough for the night. they came monthly through the...
- Oct 25, 2021
- 1 min
THE POWER OF POETRY
ALEX COVERDALE | CREATIVES A footnote in another’s story Is a title in my own. The power of poetry Is something we’ve never truly known....
- Sep 29, 2021
- 5 min
Highlight
HARPREET KAUR DHILLON | CREATIVES Stream of conscious thoughts. To list the battles, the issues, the barriers, and the experiences of...
- Sep 29, 2021
- 1 min
Dishes of the Diaspora
JENNIFER LE | CREATIVES Jennifer Le is serving you a taste of Vietnam. Chè ba màu (3 colour dessert) A plethora of colour, bursting full...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 1 min
A Vietnamese Diasporic Lense
JENNIFER LE | CREATIVES Jennifer Le snapshots her family’s celebration of this year’s Lunar New Year. How the dragon glides, Its flames a...
- Sep 23, 2021
- 1 min
<i like asian girls uwu>
OLIVIA CHAN | CREATIVES she stared into the mirror face raw and bare; if you stopped and stared she was ordinary, fair but- the way her...
- Sep 4, 2021
- 1 min
Judging A Book By Her Cover
JENNIFER LE | CREATIVES I call this piece ‘Judging a book by Her cover.’ This piece is in line with the theme of Funhouse being about the...
- Aug 30, 2021
- 1 min
Lunar Park
OLIVIA CHAN | CREATIVES Tighten your seatbelt and Store your phone away. Put your sunglasses down and Relax to the ticking sound. But my...
- Aug 24, 2021
- 4 min
A Vanished City
LACHLAN MARNOCH | CREATIVES The superb city of Aresen stands in the highlands of Isol, set inland from the harbours that feed it. A...
Grapeshot acknowledges the Wallumattagal clan, of the Dharug nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and meet. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, no treaty was signed, and would like to pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
We would like to extend those respects to all First Nations people reading. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.