Writing by Magdalene Hoy. Photograph by Jeremy Bishop. And so it goes that he had finally died. For years I’d been ready, occupied. For...

Writing by Will Penkethman-Carr. Image via Unsplash. From an iron sky the wind cuts into protesting bodies; winter occupies April. The...

Writing by Holly Mackin. Illustration by Berenika Murray. TW - Eating Disorders, Dark Subject Matter It was on my mind 24/7, I was...

Writing by Will Penkethman-Carr. Illustration by Phoebe McGowan. Greg Wallace comes to me in a dream. Come to me, Greg, come to me. We...

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Writing by Hattie Atkins. Illustration from Unsplash. 'Home Remedies' I mourn the mornings: body folded like pastry, unfurling in the...

Writing by Ayesha Dawson. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. Content warning: contains discussion of sexual assault. My all-girl school did...

Writing by Daniel Irvine. Illustration from Unsplash. Industrial bells ring out to summon private property pyre. “Burn the chaotic...

Writing by Paola Lindo. Illustration from Unsplash. are common, so soft and easy to pick apart so i pressed and picked them. bloody arms...

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Writing by Victoria MacKintosh. Illustration by Polly Burnay. Matthew wanted to be a plant. I have been aching to type these words. Of...

Writing by Magnus McDowall. Illustration by Polly Burnay. Huckleberry drifters In an upturned home Of sodden matchsticks Scurried from...

Writing by Billy Chapman. Illustration from Unsplash. Phone book i’m Frustrated with these names We do not speak All forgotten to the...

Writing by Will Staveley. Illustration from Unsplash. I waking up Horizontal in a foetal bed Blanketed as sand-time in snow; Life...

Writing by Lara Slyce. Illustration by Polly Burnay. The morning after the accident I’m sitting in my windowsill. Cross legged, robed in...

Writing by Ece Kucuk. Illustration by Polly Burnay. There comes a point in time when you’ve reached a clearing in your road to recovery...

Writing by Claire Shankie. Illustration by Polly Burnay. How must we recover from this? This hatred, this apathy. Where is humanity? This...

Writing by Levi Mitchell. Illustration by Caitlin Osfield. The Cairngorm scenery makes me ache. It’s so stunningly still, filled with...

Writing by Ali Gavin. Illustration by Sarah Dobbs. There is a point at which words turn to muscle memory. A point at which the tongue,...

Writing by Annabel Wilde. Illustration by Abigail Featherstone. Why does grief feel worse right now? I was never prepared to experience...

Writing by Hannah Rothmann. Illustration by Isi Williams. I left Edinburgh as spring was slowly seeping into the bones of the city,...

Writing by Harry Clough. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. ‘I’m sorry, what’s your name?’ Hunched like a hedgerow oak she sits In a...

Writing by Justine White. Illustration by Justine White. Content Warning: suicide, gender dysphoria Distraught, I sit against my radiator...

Writing by Anonymous. Illustration by Paola Valentina. Content Warning: explicit descriptions of sexual assault, rape, the aftermath,...

Writing by Paola Valentina. Illustration by Zoë Dutton. i recall only some regrets, and sigh cigarettes knowing these cobblestones guard...

Writing by Molly Herbert. Illustration by Beth Morton. Eagle Eyes stares from my bedroom window, curtains winding, transparent in the...

Writing by Jessica Cave. Below are found expects from a diary of Julian after and during her sickness. She titled her life in Chapters...

Writing by Alice Fischer. Illustration by Zoë Dutton. Ply the sheet off my face Gel serum for youth I am Bateman. Cocky in appearance But...

Writing by Claire Shankie. Illustration by Claire Shankie. Where should I go? Where should I stay? Do I belong? I’ll leave anyway. Start?...

Writing by Harry Clough. Illustration by Josie Berry. Two lovers land on a swan’s nesting place, Oscillating dragons on paper wings And...

Writing by Magnus McDowall. Illustration by Polly Burnay. What’s the use? Of a stroll through pock-marked streets, Where each door is...

Writing by Albertine Clarke. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. His grandfather made violins. He says it taught him patience, Craft: the...

Writing by Molly MacLean. Illustration by Celeste John-Wood. The sudden flush of dawn had stirred something vile. Collapsed upon the bed...

Writing by Ellen Willott. Illustration by Carlos Finlay. When I was little, I decided that I would always remember a moment. It wasn't a...

Writing by Amelia Morgan. Illustration by Fran Wise. There’s a small chicken and she’s sitting in the way; the doorways not big enough...

Writing by Niamh Melvin. Illustration by Polly Burnay. These are the words of an almost 20 something my life flashing by unknown and...

Writing by Olivia Humphrey. Illustration by Josie Berry. The enforcement of lockdown throughout the UK in March of this year saw...

Writing by Dan Percival. Illustration from Unsplash. Five days: one hundred and twenty hours, seven thousand two hundred minutes, four...

Writing by Will Rogan, Illustration by Josie Berry In early March, when the world fell apart, it took my year abroad with it. I was...

Written by Grace Callaghan I sat, me with you, and watched the hot drops of a hot summer fall. ‘I like watching the rain, do you?’ I’d...

Written by Beth Davison I will stay awake until the faces in the walls start screaming, until the paint bleeds into fractured memories of...

Written by Albertine Clarke He sent me extracts from his diary. At the age where I now find myself, He walked through sage plants in the...

Written by Albertine Clarke Had I known that he was a heart-eater, I would not be lying upon this table Covered in damp towels, to soak...

Writing: Rosie Barry Driving home, Michelle was scared. She knew exactly what of- the why’s and the when’s of the moment, but...

Writing: Jo Higgs Another spouting sees my skin call out for a territorially defined follicle drought. Just two hairs tamely testifying...

Writing: Polly Burnay I once shrieked this in a moment of pure fury at my sister. She had thrown away an apple core, which – yellow,...

Writing: Albertine Clarke On the seventy-seventh day of our trip, I noticed that Jason was trying to kill me. There was nothing that...

Writing - Charley Rose Jones The ghost of the man that I once knew visited me today. I was at work, halfway through making a coffee...

Writing - Becky Bishop-Ashton Illustration - Yizhi Liu Time seems to have abated Its endless plod For a brief instant, and I am...

Writing: Albertine Clarke The landscape within which you chose to build our house was not my first choice. Robbed of nutrients by the...