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Nic’s Flix: Sinners Is the First Great Horror Film of 2025
After a slow start to the year for movies, Nic Chang has finally discovered the masterpiece of 2025 (thus far): Sinners . Still from...
Sep 14
A Minecraft Movie Digs Deeper Than You’d Think
It’s chaotic, blocky, and a little unhinged. But that’s what makes it good. William Elliott unpacks the surprise heart of A Minecraft...
Sep 14
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[Niamh’s Reads] Heart of Darkness
In another riveting article of Niamh’s Reads, Niamh McGonnell-Hall explores the horrors of colonisation and humanity in Joseph Conrad’s...
Sep 14
A Meditation on Curiosity
Ever-curious Editorial Assistant Bethany Sharman sparks questions about innate curiosity and the quest for knowledge to conquer the...
Sep 14
The dam
Editorial Assistant Amy Condren reflects on girlhood, fear, and the murky relationship between human and nature. There are eels in the...
Sep 14
Swim to Survive
Editorial Assistant Daniela De Vera sifts through the depths of death and its constant impending inevitability. I used to think that I...
Sep 14
What We Keep Looking For
Section Editor Tanisha Shah reflects on doomscrolling by peeling back the layer of cynicism to peek at the troubles lying underneath....
Sep 14
Underneath Our Stories
“You see, when two protagonists love each other very much—” “Ugh! Mum! I don’t want to hear about that!” Cassidy interrupted, waving her...
Sep 14
The Understory as a Poem
When the water is green because the trees are green, a writhing impressionist painting, vines like veins held up to the light, snaking...
Sep 13
Jack and the Giant
Once upon a time, there was a mischievous little boy called Jack. One day, when the moon was low and the sun was up, a cock would crow...
Sep 13
Death of the Trefoil
It was a matter of time. Eventually, everyone within the compound walls would succumb to some sort of sickness. No one knew why, but no...
Sep 13
if love was enough
11th march 2025 if love was enough, i'd leave the porch light on and the front door unlocked. i'd hug you at the doorway as i whisper,...
Sep 13
femininity
lingers between my independence and me running a soft invitation along the ridges of my resolve to unclench my calloused fists that i...
Sep 13
the understory of grief
17th march 2025 what is more potent than grief's silent ability to tether us to worlds that no longer exist? you don't know that i'm...
Sep 13
Imagine You Were Me
He sat in the bus shelter, wearing a greasy-looking beanie, a bushy beard, and a long coat. He’d spoken so casually I thought he was...
Sep 13
Carterhaugh Rose
The gardens started with a gatehouse, refurbished from the ruins of an old manor. The building itself was gone, the estate scattered with...
Sep 13
Under Skin
Lucent light on a flaxen pelt on a moonlit night in the African veldt. Gold eyes bright, sinuous, svelte, teeth star-white and fur like...
Sep 13
Why Astrology Is The Answer To Revolutions
Editorial Assistant Elizabete Lasmane ponders the link between the stars, the planets, and the anarchy of revolution. Have you ever...
Sep 13
What Lies Beneath The Surface: The Reality Of Living With Anxiety
Editorial Assistant Juliette Allen relays the motions of living with anxiety, whilst juggling the rest of life’s demands. [Author's Note]...
Sep 13
Hadestown: Are We Living In Hell On Earth?
Contributor Siya Pujari compares present-day reality to the mythological saga of Hadestown, drawing uncanny links and similarities. In...
Sep 13
Pretty in Print
Editor in Chief Beth Nicholls and Deputy Editor Kayleigh Greig swoon over the magic of paper print, sparked by a visit to Rawson Print’s...
Sep 13
Going Once, Going Twice, Sold: How Capitalism Erased the Village That Raised Us
Editorial Assistant Rahima Bilgrami discusses the disappearance of the village it took to raise a child, and wonders if capitalism has...
Sep 13
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.
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