Issue Seventeen has arrived.

“We swim in the waves of the sea and try to relate to one another from moving points on different islands. This is the work of our collective, the archipelago, to form relationships between writers and artists in their fight to reimagine their communities.”

- Kieren Kresevic Salazar

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  • Human Rights Essay Prize

    2025

    Featuring eleven human rights essays, this issue includes Sabia Rasool, Rachel Desiree Felix, Chibueze Darlington Anuonye, Ashna Hedge, Amritha Mohan, Patrick Hannan, Alifya Maheswari Putri W, Yoga Prasetyo, Susan Francis, Clare Brown and Scherezade Siobhan.

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  • The Outlaw Ocean

    DIGITAL COLLECTION

    Portside Review partnered with The Outlaw Ocean Project to publish a collection of investigative journalistic pieces, documenting the human rights abuses that take place in our lawless oceans. Alongside these, four creative were also published in response to the issues documented by Ian Urbina and his team at The Outlaw Ocean.

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  • Short But Deadly

    FIRST NATIONS PRIZE

    Celebrating writing excellence, this special edition of Portside Review is dedicated to the small stories that pack a punch. The Short But Deadly competition ran over August-September 2024 and was open to Australian First Nations people living anywhere in the world. Ten winning stories were selected and are presented in this issue.

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