Announcing the 2025 Human Rights Essay Prize Winner

Portside Review is pleased to announce that the winning essay for the 2025 Human Rights Essay Prize is Sabia Rasool’s ‘The Blind Side.’ Rachel Desiree Felix’s essay ‘Daughters of Silence’ has taken the runner up position.

  • 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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