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Mob: Ngulu
ALLY CARTER | REGULARS I stare at the face of the woman standing in front of me. She has hazel eyes, high cheekbones and dark hair from...
Sep 11, 2021


Illustrated: What Your Face Mask Says About You
KY STEWART | REGULARS What your face mask says about you: The single-use blue surgical mask You are a stickler for the rules. You don’t...
Sep 11, 2021


Newsflash: The Peace Festival
RHYS SAGE | NEWS From the 16th – 26th of September this year, Raising Peace will be holding events celebrating the United Nations...
Sep 11, 2021


Newsflash: Stay at Home and Study
RAYNA BLAND | NEWS Gladys Berejiklian’s stay-at-home order for Sydney has meant that students for Semester 2 will return to online...
Sep 11, 2021


Newsflash: Ash Barty’s Wimbledon Win
NIKITA BYRNES | NEWS On 10 July, 2021, 25-year-old Ashleigh ‘Ash’ Barty defeated former Czech world champion Karolina Plíšková at...
Sep 11, 2021


Newsflash: Clothing the Gaps Re-Branding
NIKITA BYRNES | NEWS The nationally-renowned business and brand, Clothing the Gap, has been forced to add an “s” onto the end of their...
Sep 11, 2021


1000 Cases Tomorrow
SALIHA REHANAZ | NEWS On Saturday 24th of July, the empty streets of Sydney’s CBD were bombarded with over 3500 anti-lock down...
Sep 11, 2021


Those Who Wish Me Dead Will Make You Wish You Watched Something Else Instead
NICHOLAS CHANG | REPEAT OFFENDERS Those Who Wish Me Dead will make you wish you stayed at home and watched a 90s action thriller instead....
Sep 6, 2021


Judging A Book By Her Cover
JENNIFER LE | CREATIVES I call this piece ‘Judging a book by Her cover.’ This piece is in line with the theme of Funhouse being about the...
Sep 4, 2021


Challenge: Becoming a Runner
ELEANOR TAYLOR | REGULARS When I was a little kid, my sisters and I would go for ‘runs’ with Mum. She’d get in her gear and we’d...
Sep 4, 2021


Lovecraft Country Review
MADI SCOTT | REPEAT OFFENDERS I don’t do scary books. Or fantasy and historical fiction. For someone who reads quite a lot, I really...
Sep 2, 2021


Challenge: Painting in Lockdown
REGULARS | JODIE RAMODIEN I write this article during our eleventh week of lockdown in Sydney where the cases have reached the...
Sep 1, 2021

‘The Kissing Booth 3’ is a Terrible Ending to an Asinine Teen Franchise
NICHOLAS CHANG | REPEAT OFFENDERS When the credits of Netflix’s The Kissing Booth 3 finally finished, I was happy. Not because the series...
Aug 31, 2021


An Epidemic of Loneliness
MYKAYLA CASTLE | FEATURES How much has COVID actually changed our social landscape? How are you holding up? It’s the kind of opening...
Aug 31, 2021


Distortions
RHYS SAGE | FEATURES Trigger warning: Contains discussion on depression and mental illness. I was 18 when I was first diagnosed with...
Aug 31, 2021


Falling Into the Uncanny Valley
TIFFANY FONG | FEATURES The Uncanny Valley effect has driven discussion regarding human evolution, sparking theories and folklore as we...
Aug 31, 2021


Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse is an Undervalued 80s’ Slasher Flick
NICHOLAS CHANG | REPEAT OFFENDERS "Pay to get in. Pray to get out!" To think this is the film that got Tobe Hooper the directing job for...
Aug 30, 2021


Lunar Park
OLIVIA CHAN | CREATIVES Tighten your seatbelt and Store your phone away. Put your sunglasses down and Relax to the ticking sound. But my...
Aug 30, 2021


A Vanished City
LACHLAN MARNOCH | CREATIVES The superb city of Aresen stands in the highlands of Isol, set inland from the harbours that feed it. A...
Aug 24, 2021


Mob: My Own Little Funhouse
KY STEWART | REGULARS Being gay and Indigenous is a box I will always be in. A box that I have come to know the four walls of quite well...
Aug 24, 2021


You Are Here: Sydney Western Suburbs (Mt Druitt and the Surrounding Area)
TORI S. BARENDREGT | REGULARS From August 2018 to August 2019, I had the opportunity to live overseas in Orlando, Florida, working at...
Aug 24, 2021


Pop Culture Rewind Jumanji: Playing with Lives
TORI S. BARENDREGT | REGULARS JUMANJI A GAME FOR THOSE WHO SEEK TO FIND A WAY TO LEAVE THEIR WORLD BEHIND So says the inside of the...
Aug 24, 2021


Writing on the Wall: The Double Standards of Religious Trauma
ANONYMOUS | REGULARS For as long as I can remember, I've been in the Church. It's a familiar story for a minister's daughter. I sang...
Aug 23, 2021


Grapey Book Club: Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo’s Books and the New Netflix Series JODIE RAMODIEN, KATHLEEN NOTOHAMIPRODJO and RHYS SAGE | REPEAT OFFENDERS In our first...
Aug 22, 2021
Grapeshot acknowledges the Wallumattagal clan, of the Dharug nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and meet. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, no treaty was signed, and would like to pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
We would like to extend those respects to all First Nations people reading. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
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