northern rivers independent press

Charlie Trenerry
The Book Room at Byron is a special place to me. Bright, warm, quiet, friendly. Staffed entirely with people who love books as much as me or you–just what you want from a good bookshop. One particular staff member, much to my delight, took to quizzing me. 

One day, wandering aimless and bored looking for a beach book (not necessarily beach-related, just one to stand up against the salt and the sand dunes), I picked up Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and was told, in no uncertain terms, that I was to have it memorised and ready to recite the next time I came in. 

I did. 

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ecology

Beba Rizzaro
28.03.2025

A graphic designer encourages you to play. 

[Read..] Beba is a lecturer in our upcoming workshop



Featured: Trump got re-elected, so we went to life-drawing
Natalie Woods 

HOTMESS. A little bit surrealistic, a little bit raunch, and a whole lot of incredible costumes. 

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Featured: From the archive: Immortal Soil
Scout O’Donoghue 

Earth is their church and nature their playground. 

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Too Precious
Kate Middeleer
09.06.202

The unsettling feeling of screeching to a halt. And unanswered emails.

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In Conversation with Rebecca O’Brien
Kate Middeleer

An exploration into filmmaking, the Northern Rivers, and having guts.

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Ours Everywhere
Thomas Hannah 
09.06.2025 

“Tu es partout”
Prose and experimental video.  




To Love The Empty Cup; An interview with Aafia Ali Shah
Thomas Hannah
 22.04.2025

A  philosophical look at the depth of personal identity and spirit, and its colourful translation onto canvas.

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What is Community?
Sabastian Fardell
11.03.2025

Northern Rivers Community Photo Club.

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Stephanie Alvarez x Julie Rrap
14.02.2025

An open look at vulnerability and love, vulnerability in love. Poetry from the Northern Rivers, visuals from the 
Sydney MCA Gallery.

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea
Charlie Trenerry 
06.01.2024

Instagram would have definitely given Jean-Paul Sartre motion sickness. 

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Friends With Grain
Kate Middeleer
29.09.2024

A motion-picture community lab, looping systems, and experimental film-making.

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Wispy Dreads SouthMiica Balint, film McTavish, photography Jill Bontempo
29.09.2024

Wispy speaks to the secluded breaks 
of our mountainous Antarctic-nearing relative.

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Greet Me With An Open Palm
Daniel Stevenson
 29.09.2024

To lay it all out, to simply be.

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Time To Grow DownAsher Packman, photgraphy Marta FDZ
29.09.2024

A TedX talk at the height of the pandemic, grief, milk, and a roadside pickup.

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A Lonely Girl Is A Dangerous Thing
Charlie Trenerry 
09.09.2024

An unapologetic look into the gruesome and beautiful guilt of female desire. 

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Il Dolce Far Niente (The Sweetness of Doing Nothing)
Sabastian Fardell
04.09.2024

Panarea Island in pursuit of nothing.

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In Preparation
Kate Middeleer
07.08.2024

A personal essay on cause and effect and Joan Didion.

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The laying On Of Hands
Charlie Trenerry 
08.08.2024

Charlie replaces food money for books this 
week. Alan Bennett.

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Streetscapes and Sagga-Firing
Kate Middeleer
04.08.2024

“You have to have thick skin to be a ceramicist.”

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Duck Rodeo
Jordan Rochfort, photography Miica Balint 19.07.2024

An introduction to the new Art Gallery in Lismore, Flying Arch.

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Joel Melrose Kate Middeleer
05.07.2024

Tattooist. Designer. Painter. Sculpter. In conversation with our neighbor,
Joel of House House.

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Diary of the Northeast Side
Scout O’Donogue
25.06.2024

A guppy in brackish water. Scouttells of her transition to life in London.

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Bayou’s Charlie and Tom
Miica Balint
21.06.2024

Tom used to roll through Bayou asking for a job. Now he owns it. And lives above it.

Longtime partner and friend of the mag, he gives us our film and guilts us to surf.

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Joel of Blanc Studio
Kate Middeleer
21.06.2024  

A serendipitous meeting on the beach, and now we’re eating soup with one of the mag’s first partners and fast friend, Joel.

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Quantum Organica Part Two
Dane Harrison
05.07.2024

More on quantum physics and carp 
ponds in Indonesia.

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Let us Compare Mythologies
Charlie Trenerry 
06.06.2024

Each word and letter and line of illustration belongs where it lays on the page. And they will absolutely break your heart because of it. Leonard Cohen.

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Quanta Organica
Dane Harrison
14.06.2024

Quantum physics and carp ponds in 
Indonesia. One fifth philosophy, 
three fifths fiction, one fifth 
quantum physics.

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In Conversation with Karlee Mackie
Kate Middeleer
20.04.2024

The home studio of one of the best. 
Aliens, mould, exhibitions, surf, vaginas. 
With added joyful insight from Karlee’s 
son Koda.

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It’s Maeve
Kate Middeleer
04.03.2024 

A lady who is not dictated by any 
one job, but does many, really well.




The Art Exhibition That
Commemorated
our Launch
Miica Balint, Kate Middeleer
05.05.2024

A look into twelve artists in our region. We figured there is no more apt a launch to a collaborative magazine, than by way of a group art exhibition.




The Little Poet Book Store
Teagan Kruse 
17.04.2024

The tale of the eclect ic bookshop that was most often everything but that. 

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Letters to a Young Poet
Charlie Trenerry
12.02.2024

One of those little books that may change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke. 

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Balance and Breath
Kate Middeleer
25.04.2024

Martial arts and health fads. 

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