False start, false start, false start.
Perception. Impression. Connection. I’ve tasked myself to write about me; what has shaped me, what has made me, who I think might be watching, and what I would like them to know.
But there’s a version of myself reading over my shoulder, watching as I type. And she’s eighteen and she’s twenty-five, twenty-two, and she’s even eleven years old. And right now I’m sitting by the Brunswick River, but then the breeze shifts directions and I’m smelling oak thistles on the baseball fields in Providence, or the warm rancid subway fumes from grates at my feet.
It smells like New York City smog as I watch the cormorants diving deeper into the river, moving slowly with the low tide. The late afternoon is overcast and the water is dark, reflecting the green tint of trees at the shoreline and what little light is left.
I thought I could write this, at twenty-seven. But these girls at my shoulder, they keep reading along. And we wince together in hot blushes. Back to rooms where we missed the mark. Why did you say that? Back to his car. Did you see the way he looked at you? Back to that meeting. Is that really what you wore?
I can’t write this about me without writing this about them. And they’re listening, they remember in sharp detail.
A collection of prose by Elila Mkakanzi
29.09.2025
This feeling of burn out. Akin to scratching at bare cave walls with fingernails bleeding, cuts and scabs days old, trying to leave a mark on an unmarkable place. A trapped snarling tigress; exhausted skin and bones, angry eyes glinting beneath thunderous brows, milk leaking from teats, belly still tender.
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A Limitless Thread: Poems in Accompaniment to Instrumentals for Surf clips
Andrew Fraser
28.03.2025
A friend gave me a poetry book once upon a time in Ewingsdale. I pensively glanced at its pages and felt my whole concept of writing shift.
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Andrew Fraser
28.03.2025
A friend gave me a poetry book once upon a time in Ewingsdale. I pensively glanced at its pages and felt my whole concept of writing shift.
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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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Kate Middeleer
09.06.202
The unsettling feeling of screeching to a halt. And unanswered emails.
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Simone de Beauvoir’s The Inseparables
Charlie Trenerry
11.08.2025
It’s not often that you wander (as I’ve mentioned I am wont to do) into your favourite local bookstore and are remembered well enough to be asked if you’ve read the new release from an author almost forty years dead.
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Charlie Trenerry
11.08.2025
It’s not often that you wander (as I’ve mentioned I am wont to do) into your favourite local bookstore and are remembered well enough to be asked if you’ve read the new release from an author almost forty years dead.
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Ours Everywhere
Thomas Hannah
09.06.2025
“Tu es partout”
Prose and experimental video.
Thomas Hannah
09.06.2025
“Tu es partout”
Prose and experimental video.
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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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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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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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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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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea
Charlie Trenerry
06.01.2025
Instagram would have definitely given Jean-Paul Sartre motion sickness.
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Charlie Trenerry
06.01.2025
Instagram would have definitely given Jean-Paul Sartre motion sickness.
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Casey May and The Lovers
Kate Middeleer, photohraphy Nicole Munnelly01.12.2024
No hidden gem. Casey and The Lovers are big and bold and hard to miss.
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Kate Middeleer, photohraphy Nicole Munnelly01.12.2024
No hidden gem. Casey and The Lovers are big and bold and hard to miss.
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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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Immortal Soil
Scout O’Donoghue
10.02.2024
Earth is their church and nature their playground.
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Street Haunting and other Essays
Charlie Trenerry
05.05.2024
I begin my second column by promising you, dear reader, that they won’t all be on obscure little pieces by well-known authors of other things. Virginia Woolf.
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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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Kate Middeleer
29.09.2024
A motion-picture community lab, looping systems, and experimental film-making.
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Immortal Soil
Scout O’Donoghue
10.02.2024
Earth is their church and nature their playground.
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Street Haunting and other Essays
Charlie Trenerry
05.05.2024
I begin my second column by promising you, dear reader, that they won’t all be on obscure little pieces by well-known authors of other things. Virginia Woolf.
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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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Wispy Dreads South
Miica 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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Do not be afraid of experimentationBeba Rizzaro
28.03.2025
A graphic designer encourages you to play.
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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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Trump got re-elected, so we went to life-drawing
Natalie Woods
01.12.2024
HOTMESS. A little bit surrealistic, a little bit raunch, and a whole lot of incredible costumes.
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What is Community?
Sabastian Fardell
11.03.2025
Northern Rivers Community Photo Club.
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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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Allie and Gimmy
Scout O’Donoghue
04.04.2024
Intimate in-residence with a highly creative, expressive and talented couple.
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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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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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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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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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It’s Maeve
Kate Middeleer
04.03.2024
A lady who is not dictated by any
one job, but does many, really well.
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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.
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I shaved my armpits for Nic Munnelly
Miica Balint, photography Jill Bontempo
24.05.2024
I did. I also ate two boiled eggs and was on my second coffee, black, by the time I met Jill and Nic at ten am.
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Tinariwen
Miica Balint, photography Jill Bontempo
05.07.2024
The pioneers of soul-rectifying desert blues. This is a love letter of sorts, to a band, to a story
of rebellion, to a photographer.
The Azure Kingfisher
Miica Balint, photography Jill Bontempo
01.09.2024
Watch birds, volunteer your time, go to
therapy. Andrew Fraser of Pasiflorez
and Bodalla.
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Miica Balint, photography Jill Bontempo
01.09.2024
Watch birds, volunteer your time, go to
therapy. Andrew Fraser of Pasiflorez
and Bodalla.
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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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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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In conversation with Holly Wawn
Miica Balint, photography Adam Robertson
10.02.2024
Probing on puny details and making
average poems out of it.
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Timezones with Laure Briard
Kate Middeleer
15.02.2024
Did Francois Hardy sing bossa nova
at the Bangalow Bowlo?
29.09.2024
A TedX talk at the height of the pandemic, grief, milk, and a roadside pickup.
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In conversation with Holly Wawn
Miica Balint, photography Adam Robertson
10.02.2024
Probing on puny details and making
average poems out of it.
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Timezones with Laure Briard
Kate Middeleer
15.02.2024
Did Francois Hardy sing bossa nova
at the Bangalow Bowlo?
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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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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Diary of the Northeast Side
Scout O’Donogue
25.06.2024
A guppy in brackish water. Scout tells of her transition to life in London.
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Scout O’Donogue
25.06.2024
A guppy in brackish water. Scout tells of her transition to life in London.
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Red Belly RecordsKate Middeleer
05.06.2024
Cows, four fingers, and a music festival.
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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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Quantum Organica Part TwoDane Harrison
05.07.2024
More on quantum physics and carp
ponds in Indonesia.
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Quanta Organica
Dane Harrison
14.06.2024
14.06.2024
Quantum physics and carp ponds in
Indonesia. One fifth philosophy,
three fifths fiction, one fifth
quantum physics.
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Indonesia. One fifth philosophy,
three fifths fiction, one fifth
quantum physics.
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Letters to a Young Poet
Charlie Trenerry
12.02.2024
12.02.2024
One of those little books that may change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke.
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