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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art+culture

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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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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Friends With Grain
Kate Middeleer
29.09.2024

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

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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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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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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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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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Allie and Gimmy
Scout O’Donoghue
04.04.2024 

Intimate in-residence with a highly creative, expressive and talented couple.  

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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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