My Via Dolorosa: Part II

B Bargaining If I rise before dawn and set the table for ghosts, will Time delay its hunger? If I say please before each swallow of pills, will Death forget my name for a while? In the past, I asked the dark to bend. I begged Time to rewind. I pleaded with whatever gods were…

ByOlivia McGee15 May 2026

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My Via Dolorosa: Part I

Mourning Grief enters with a whisper, rearranges the furniture and then asks me to sit beside it. I was raised to believe that Death was a clear and sacred threshold: a final breath, a closed casket, a soul ascending in accordance with divine judgment. I was warned to fear sin, to prepare for Death as…

ByOlivia McGee10 May 2026

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Love and Space: Life’s timely pursuit

I Think You Saw It Too. I’m sure you saw it. Somewhere between everything else, scrolling, moving, thinking about what’s next, you would have come across it. NASA. Artemis II. The furthest humans have ever gone. Headlines about how they went further than anyone in history. How they slipped behind the Moon. How, for a…

ByKevin Hua27 April 2026

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Indigenous Historical Fiction and the Radical Reimagining of Australian Historiography

While The Voice of Silence established that historical fiction can meaningfully humanise the emotional dimensions of colonisation, white-written narratives such as Eleanor Dark’s The Timeless Land (1941) and Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (2005) remain epistemologically constrained by the very Western frameworks they seek to critique. To merely include Aboriginal perspectives within those inherited structures…

ByAnna van Gelder22 April 2026

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The Voice of Silence: An examination of the role of historical fiction inrepresenting occluded Aboriginal histories

In his polemic 1968 Boyer Lecture, W.E.H. Stanner first introduced the term “Great Australian Silence” to expose the structural erasure of Aboriginal history from the Australian narrative, labelling a nationwide “cult of forgetfulness” to critique historians from the 1930s to the early 1960s. However, Stanner was not simply critiquing the omission of Aboriginal historiography, but…

ByAnna van Gelder14 April 2026

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Dramsoc Review: The play that went wrong, in all the right ways

If you’re in need of a good laugh, St Andrew’s annual performance of the Drama Society (DramSoc) is sure not to disappoint, and this was especially true of this year's production. Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, the DramSoc’s take on ‘The Play that Goes Wrong’ was a brilliant display of theatrical…

BySylvie Durrant21 January 2026

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When I Become a Panther

Foreword: This fictional piece was inspired by my interest in the psychological and neurodevelopmental effects of childhood trauma, which began after reading The Boy Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz. Throughout this story, I have attempted to touch on the powerlessness felt by victims of child abuse and the…

ByLucy Smith22 September 2025

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The Centre Does Hold

There all the barrel-hoops are knit, There all the serpent-tails are bit, There all the gyres converge in one, There all the planets drop in the Sun. – W. B. Yeats, Supernatural Songs, IV 'There' The Brown Betty teapot’s older than the Hills Hoist and twice as stubborn. Five generations of paddy women, and decades of…

ByAtlanta Gervasoni29 August 2025

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Triptych

Constrict Me Serpent Burns the light above Does on petty eyes of mine. From high up as if to guide light To my fingertips and my knuckles. Such advice deemed little To a boy so confused, he forgot how to write. Melancholy, some shout, Others pensive, More merely stranded youth. Yet they…

BySam Singleton22 August 2025

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Aithrí

In Her Name Mary Magdalene is posited as Christianity’s exemplar of repentance, the apostle of Christ, the faithful woman, freed of seven demons. Worthy of hymnal adoration, and biblical heralding… but the rankle, the blister, the problem was she was robust, energetic. A prostitute. None of which were revered in the picture of the Christian…

ByAlice Wilson6 June 2025