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Runway Journal is critical, bold and always in conversation. Runway Journal cultivates and preserves experimental practice on our digital platform.

We commission and publish critical and artistic works that respond to thematic callouts and engage with current threads of Australian and international contemporary art. The journal is a resource for the exchange of knowledge and ideas. Through knowledge-sharing and collaboration, Runway carves out an independent space for its contributors, which, reflective of the experimental realm in which it exists, cannot be defined by medium and is constantly evolving.

12/08/2026

In this essay, Isabella Hone-Saunders traces a dreamlike passage through devotion, companionship, and the fragile intimacies of living alongside other beings. Hone-Saunders explores the quiet architectures of care: the rituals, responsibilities, and gestures that bind us together.

Isabella Hone-Saunders is a curator, arts worker, and artist born on Kaurna Country, now living in Naarm/Melbourne.

You can access our full the digital journal, Issue 50: Correspondence, via the link in our bio.

Digital Producer: Debris Facility .facility

Issue 50: Correspondence was created in collaboration with Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. .australia

05/08/2026

In her auto-critical text, Anna Carlsson uncoils the umbilical cord she romanticises, linking her Korean adoption to Plato's severed humans and the transatlantic cable, an un/natural bond as biopolitical technology. Her message, sent 10,808 kilometres with no guaranteed reply, echoes the be-longing of belief, prayer and refracted dialogue.

Anna Carlsson is a writer born in South Korea, raised in Warrnambool but now resides on Wurundjeri land. She has a background in publishing with an arts and cultural focus and co-writes the Substack, Pleasure Principle. She is the associate editor at Art Guide Australia.

The full work is printed in 'Worms 11: Faith & Worship', which you can purchase via link in .w0rld bio. Also currently in stock at West Space!

Created in collaboration between Runway Journal, AU, and Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. .australia

01/08/2026

'The Icon Corner' is a collection of tender poems by Alexander Cigana. Moving between lyrical fragmentation and philosophical meditation, the project considers the icon as both object and method: a surface through which memory, intimacy, and perception become newly legible. Rather than resolving the sacred and the secular, these poems inhabit the space between them, where language lingers with what cannot be fully seen or said.

Alexander Cigana is a sculptor and poet. He holds a PhD (2021) in Art History from the University of Sydney, and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture (2024) from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. His work has affinities with Arte Povera and explores how space registers thresholds between the symbolic and the physical. He lives in Sydney, where he works as a technician at a bronze foundry.

The full work is printed in 'Worms 11: Faith & Worship', which you can purchase via link in .w0rld bio. Also currently in stock at West Space!

Created in collaboration between Runway Journal, AU, and Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. .australia

22/07/2026

For Issue 50: Correspondence, writer Jonno Revanche video chats with Brian Fuata on the transcendence of performance, the 2026 Adelaide Biennale, and their role as manager of Umoona Community Art Centre in so-called Coober Pedy - "because digital correspondence is very in this season."

A Samoan artist who works across the fields of improvisational visual and performance art, "Fuata has spent the last two decades making work that behaves more like a summoning than an event." This generous conversation explores the embodied, transgressive and "unhinged" nature of Fuata's practice, against the backdrop of Coober Pedy's "Southern Gothic".

You can access the full digital journal, Issue 50: Correspondence, via the link in our bio.

Editorial Producer: Anneka Scholtz
Digital Producer: Amy Yu

Issue 50: Correspondence was created in collaboration with Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. .australia

19/07/2026

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Every donation (however big or small) helps us to continue the important work of Runway Journal.

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15/07/2026

Giulia de Vita is a writer, satirist and filmmaker based in East London. In her piece 'FLOCK', three ageing women tend to a ever-growing flock of sheep and the ruins of a world built by absent men. That is, until one of the women vanishes into the wasteland.

"What kind of god would allow us to rot from the inside out? What kind of god would insist on the existence of toothpaste? I keep thinking of a Latin phrase I learnt in catechism, I think it was from St. Augustine: Inter fikus et urinam naskimur (we are born between p**s and s**t). There are plenty of indignities here. But we are building a small place for ourselves – not a paradise, but a home. We had to learn to pull our own teeth."

The full work is printed in 'Worms 11: Faith & Worship', which you can purchase via link in .w0rld bio. Also currently in stock at West Space!

Created in collaboration between Runway Journal, AU, and Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. .australia

09/07/2026

'The Lawlabe' by Wassila Abboud is a reflective letter addressed to a past revolutionary thinker, written from the perspective of the present war in Lebanon. Through the metaphor of the lawlabe (a spiral or tornado), the narrator writes in letter form about ideas to grapple with grief, resistance, and the persistence of occupation across generations. The piece explores how grief can either collapse inward or transform into resistance, questioning where collective sorrow should go in a world where violence and domination continue to shape the region’s history.

Wassila Abboud is a cultural worker and writer researching between Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Beirut, Lebanon. With a background in Journalism, her work engages with critical theory, philosophy, and visual culture and takes on a speculative and materialist approach, examining the conditions of past and present historical struggles – particularly through the philosophical and theoretical works of Lebanese Marxist philosopher Mahdi Amel.

The full work is printed in 'Worms 11: Faith & Worship', which you can purchase via link in .w0rld bio. Also currently in stock at West Space!

Created in collaboration between Runway Journal, AU, and Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. .australia

01/07/2026

"In breaking news, you do not know what your violence means. To listen to our break is where our first sentence is."

In 'Three Poems: Breaking News, Mixtape, and The Coroner', Amelia Zhou sifts through personal and shared archives of affect, triangulating the everyday oscillations between urgency, devotion and loss.

Amelia Zhou is a writer and PhD candidate in English at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Repose (Wendy’s Subway, 2024), a collection of poetry, prose, and lyric essay, which was awarded Wendy’s Subway 2022 Open Reading Period Book Prize. Based in Cambridge/London, Englan, Born Sydney, Australia.

The full work is printed in 'Worms 11: Faith & Worship', which you can purchase via link in .w0rld bio. Also currently in stock at West Space!

Created in collaboration between Runway Journal, AU, and Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. .australia

27/06/2026

Since 2002, Runway Journal has been a vital space for experimental, critical, and digital arts practice in Australia. We platform emerging and under-represented artists, commissioning bold and boundary-pushing work, all without ongoing government funding.

As a not-for-profit organisation, our future depends on the support of our community. Donate to Runway Journal this EOFY to help us to continue championing experimental ideas and bold voices.

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24/06/2026

In 'The Practice of Attention', the act of writing becomes an offering, part memoir, part meditation, part correspondence. Beginning with her mother’s letters and her own childhood journal, Bree Turner traces how writing evolved from refuge to ritual, from observation to devotion. Moving between memory and literary reflection, she finds kinship in writers and poets who treat language as a form of faith: F***y Howe’s restless hymns, Mary Oliver’s contemplative observations, Lydon K. Gill’s epistolary homage to Audre Lorde, Helen Garner’s diaristic honesty, and Anaïs Nin’s confessions. Each becomes a teacher in the art of attention, of listening deeply to the world and to oneself. Through these correspondences, Turner explores how writing, like prayer, offers a way to make meaning, to bear witness, and to stay tender to the sacred pulse of the everyday.

Bree Turner (she/her) is an Australian-born, Paris-based writer, researcher, and theatre-maker. Her practice moves between cultural criticism, literary nonfiction, and performance, exploring gender, sexuality, and the politics of embodiment. Working across poetic experimentation and documentary theatre, her writing engages q***r intimacy, digital culture, and feminist politics as sites of self-invention and critical inquiry. Her work has appeared in Moi, Polyester, Archer, and SIDE-NOTE, among others. She is currently developing a play, Yes, No, Baby, which explores repronormativity and is scheduled to be presented in Paris in late 2026.

The full article is printed in 'Worms 11: Faith & Worship', which you can purchase via link in .w0rld bio. Also currently in stock at West Space!

Created in collaboration between Runway Journal, AU, and Worms Magazine, UK. .w0rld

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. Creative Australia

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