The Cake is a Lie

Kayla King portrays all of womanhood in one stormy, singing poem. Read More

Beneath the Mirror I Lay

Nostalgia spills from Tanisha Rao's poem on past selves and the traces they leave behind. Read More

Half Circle

Everybody leaves their mark, right? Bodies, scars and absence are uncovered in Bridie Wilkinson's short fiction. Read More

Diamond Dust

What has gone before lies beneath a frozen relationship, in Anna Myers' wintry short story. Read More

Last Night

Red-wine breath and tear-stained cheeks. The events of a night are left behind as morning breaks but the impression remains, in Madeleine Accalia's poem – our opening piece for TRACE. Read More

The November Letter

Dear Damsels, The theme for November is ALWAYS. Limitless, stretched out ahead, constant. You can find it in the reassuring habits that tell you you’re home,… Read More

All The Places Her Hands Had Been

Emily Norton's affecting short story presents how easily 'always' can be taken away, and the fragility of a promise made. Read More

The Pocket Watch

Amy Clarkin on how losing a precious pocket watch prompted her to realise that 'always' is a promise that cannot – and perhaps should not – be kept. Read More

Those Days

By Nadia Henderson

'The old me lives in a box under the bed.' Read More

Sometimes

Molly Alessandra Cooper writes about the anxiety that can come with the simple routines in life when you're always trying to do better. Read More