POEM: Asha Naznin describes the tastes, textures and sights that have meant home to her as she has travelled all over in search of her dream.
My Bella Copia
MEMOIR: Jane Kelly Amerson López remembers her early days in a new Italian school – an American kid getting a handle on Italian dictation.
Smoke and memories
MEMOIR: In the midst of a bushfire-ridden Canberra summer, Dunja Kaczmarek traces her family’s past through treasured items.
Year three of be:longing – Digging deeper
YEAR IN REVIEW: Editors-in-Chief of be:longing, Dunja and Jasmine, reflect on the publication’s third year.
there was a mill on the riverbank
POEM: Abeir Soukieh describes the nostalgic potency of music shared across generations.
On the other side
MEMOIR: A rail trip through Europe reminds Vesna Cvjetićanin of her childhood in Yugoslavia, spent daydreaming near the train tracks.
Plam / Flame
POEM: Verica Delova Srma describes the mixing of embers from her past and present that keeps a fire in her going wherever she is.
Arranged
REFLECTION: Geetanjali Sharma grapples with her mum’s disconnection from her post-India world.
A difficult fear
REFLECTION: Sanjaya Fernando recounts a recent interaction, pondering the effect that internalised fears can have on interpersonal relationships.
why’d you write about me instead?
POEM: Abeir Soukieh explores the silencing of minority voices with misplaced advocacy.
