Prose

  Why Seeing Vegan Food at UNSW Gets Me Excited by Michael Dello-Iacovo   When I first started studying at the UNSW Kensington campus in 2016, it was a struggle for me to find good vegan food. My usual was the ‘classic falafel’ at Yummba, but since they closed up …

Prose Swansong By Emily Olorin   I perch, trusting eyes locked with your own. I am achingly breathless in the blue that drowns me; I Ophelia, the curve of a lily at the bottom of a lake. A dove staring docile on the branches of a tree, giving its trust …

A Short Ficto-critical Piece, Using Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s Creative Process as an Example. By Rani Singh DRAFT ONE: “Lest we forget Manus, Nauru, Syria Palestine.” The public – yes, including you – would have swept over this. Its syllables, all strung together with barely separating spaces, would dissipate, adjacent to the …

By Cameron Kennedy I stopped paying for public transport at the same time I stopped taking a seat. Plenty of my friends had an opinion on the matter: some decided it was unfair to freely use the service and burden my fellow travellers; some were jealous that I could so …

By Courtney Thompson You lie on your back, window open, mosquitos buzzing around your head. Their tiny wings whir around in your throat until you’re almost certain you’re going to choke. You sit up, turn on the light and start counting from ten to one, just like the app suggested. …

On this International Women’s Day, Tharunka asked three UNSW women to write letters to their younger selves about feminism, growing up in a patriarchal society and being a woman. This is what they wrote.   Nicola Ray   To the 16-year-old girl with a copy of Cosmopolitan in one hand, …