YEAR IN REVIEW: be:longing’s Editors-in-Chief, Dunja and Jasmine, reflect on the publication’s fourth year.
2006
POEM: Kiran Bhat describes his experiences debating at school and the impossibility of navigating the arbitrary feedback of a racist voice.
Matter out of place
SHORT STORY: Lien Hoang brings us a story of new landscapes and stark contrasts, set in the Snowy Mountains of NSW.
Extract: Weird Culture Kids (Ngọc Nguyễn)
MEMOIR: Ngọc Nguyễn and New Degree Press bring us an extract from Ngọc’s upcoming memoir – Weird Culture Kids.
2015
POEM: Kiran Bhat reflects on his grappling to learn his ‘mother tongue’ amid discouragement and dislocation.
The circle is still open
POEM: Dejan Stevanović takes stock of recent journeys, and wonders whether or not he is any closer to understanding the people around him.
Leaving again
ART: Alessia Camoirano Bruges brings us a fluid art piece that explores intense feelings of home, family, distance and existence.
From Continental Europe to Cosmopolitan Canberra
REFLECTION: Krystian Sadkowsky recounts his family’s complex migration history to where they are all settled today.
1999
POEM: Kiran Bhat takes us to a hotel room in 1999, where he and his parents prepare to attend a special event in the US.
From our fence to yours in Kauai
REFLECTION + ART: Biljana Cvetkovich describes her migration to the US and how she came to live in her beloved new home of Kauai, which inspires her artistic practice.
