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Runway Journal 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.

Gazan writer and translator Alaa Alqaisi reflects on her evacuation from Gaza to Dublin and the books and words that hav...
03/06/2026

Gazan writer and translator Alaa Alqaisi reflects on her evacuation from Gaza to Dublin and the books and words that have held her through displacement and despair in Issue 50: Correspondence in collaboration with Worms Magazine, UK.

"And yet Gaza does not stay still behind me; it leaps before me at every horizon. It rises suddenly from the corner of a street in Dublin, in the sound of gulls above the river, in the smell of sea carried inland, in the echo of footsteps on wet stone. My life unfolds as though split between two worlds, as though I inhabit a geography divided, one part of me anchored in exile and the other endlessly circling back toward a home undone."

Alaa Alqaisi is a Palestinian translator, writer, and researcher from Gaza, and a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin. Holding an MA in Translation Studies, she explores how literature and storytelling bridge cultures and bear witness to lived realities. Her work appears in ArabLit, Literary Hub, Adi Magazine, and others.

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

Digital Producer: Yanti Peng

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

'And Suddenly I Can Say God: Self-Written Liturgy' by Phoenix Yemi is a bold, fragmented poem that moves through faith, ...
27/05/2026

'And Suddenly I Can Say God: Self-Written Liturgy' by Phoenix Yemi is a bold, fragmented poem that moves through faith, the erotic, and the feminine to reclaim spiritual authority on its own terms. Drawing on Audre Lorde, Simone Weil, and the myth of Eve, Yemi refuses inherited definitions of God, submission, and the body, writing her own liturgy in their place, featured in Issue 50: Correspondence in collaboration with Worms Magazine, UK.

"And I am myself and not myself. My mother says I'm all wrong, that I'm dirt and mud. She wants me to be closer to God, but He already lives inside me."

Phoenix Yemi is a Nigerian-British poet and artist rooted in surrealist traditions of liberation. Writing at the intersections of body and earth, desire and dissent, her work resists and reimagines language to summon new ways of being. She is the founder of Black Geographies and writes A Worm Moon for Worms Magazine.

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

Digital Producer: Yanti Peng .peng

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. Creative Australia

31/03/2026

We are excited to announce that submissions are open for Issue 51: Translation. Guest Edited by artist James Nyguen. 🌀 ꩜

Translation demands deep reading and attentive listening. It moves ideas across writing, speech, silence, image, and movement, and sits within an embodied practice of empathy, vigilance, and decisiveness.

The power of translators to colour how ideas are expressed and exploited opens up endless opportunities for new betrayals and violence. The wrong language can trick ethnic parents into thinking you are doing well at school, has caused contestants to lose the Miss Universe crown, validated colonial theft, and encouraged individuals to make devastating health decisions for themselves.

We invite you to send in pitches on the many aspects and outcomes of good, bad and mediocre translations.

Submissions close Monday 20 April, 11.59pm AEST

To access the full callout info or to submit a contribution, visit the link in out bio.

Guest Editor Announcement 🚨 🚨 🚨Runway Journal is excited to announce James Nguyễn as our Guest Editor for Issue 51. ꩜ ...
25/03/2026

Guest Editor Announcement 🚨 🚨 🚨

Runway Journal is excited to announce James Nguyễn as our Guest Editor for Issue 51. ꩜ 🌀

James Nguyễn works with video, writing, collaboration, and performance. Interested in broken languages of Modernist colonialism, cinematography, and diasporic larrikinism, Nguyen holds a PhD from the University of NSW, and trained at the Sydney College of Arts, the National Art School, and UnionDocs Centre for Documentary Arts (NYC).

He has exhibited at the National 2019, Next Wave Festival and ACE Open in Australia and has commissions from the Sydney Opera House, the Australian War Memorial and support from the Anne and Gordan Samstag Fellowship, Millumbuk Arts, the Clithroe Foundation, the Australian Council for the Arts, Create NSW, and Creative Victoria.

He continues to present and develop both highly acclaimed and lacklustre work locally and internationally, including in Footscray, Albury, Bankstown, Vienna, Berlin, Guangzhou, and Ho Chi Minh City.

We look forward to collaborating with James to commission a series of themed works for Runway Journal Issue 51. Stay tuned for the announcement of the theme and call-out. ꩜ 🌀

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Very delighted to announce the 2026 Runway Journal Board 🔥 🔥Victoria PhamVarsha RameshDaley RangiKathryne Genevieve Hone...
20/03/2026

Very delighted to announce the 2026 Runway Journal Board 🔥 🔥

Victoria Pham
Varsha Ramesh
Daley Rangi
Kathryne Genevieve Honey
Debris Facility
Lamisse Hamouda
Yanti Peng
Amy Yu
Giana Festa
Daniel Pini
Rafael Enriquez
Anneka Scholtz
Myranda Thomas

Together we are excited to present a jam-packed program for the year ahead.

Find out more and sign up to our mailing list via the link in bio 🔗 🔗

Join us today at Westspace from 4pm for an Issue 50: Correspondence launch event. The first part of the Correspondence c...
20/03/2026

Join us today at Westspace from 4pm for an Issue 50: Correspondence launch event.

The first part of the Correspondence collaboration was published in WORMS Issue 11, which was launched in December 2025. Copies of Worms Issue 11 will be available for purchase at this event. 🪱🐛

Issue 50: Correspondence features work by:
Alexander Cigana, Amelia Zhou, Anna Carlsson, Bree Turner, Isabella Hone-Saunders, Jonno Revanche &
Wassila Abboud

Can’t make it today? You can find copies of Worms at the following AU Stockist
Fiend [Melbourne]
Open Book [Perth]
P.A.M Store [Sydney]
Passport Store & Gallery [Sydney]
Nasha Gallery [Sydney]

Discover Issue 50: Correspondence via the link in our bio. 🔗🔗



Very delighted to announce the 2026 Runway Journal Board Victoria PhamVarsha RameshDaley RangiKathryne Genevieve Honey ...
20/03/2026

Very delighted to announce the 2026 Runway Journal Board

Victoria Pham
Varsha Ramesh
Daley Rangi
Kathryne Genevieve Honey
Debris Facility
Lamisse Hamouda
Amy Yu
Giana Festa
Daniel Pini
Rafael Enriquez
Anneka Scholtz
Myranda Thomas

Together we are excited to present a jam-packed program for the year ahead, including an Issue 50: Correspondence launch this Saturday at West Space in Collingwood. 🐛

Find out more and sign up to our mailing list via the link in our bio. 🔗 🌺

Plase join us for the Naarm Melbourne launch of Issue 50: Correspondence in collaboration with Worms Magazine, UK .w0rld...
01/03/2026

Plase join us for the Naarm Melbourne launch of Issue 50: Correspondence in collaboration with Worms Magazine, UK .w0rld

Saturday, 21 March 2-4pm | West Space, Collingwood

Find out more and register via https://luma.com/ivkf6dg6 🪱 🪱 🪱

The first part of the Correspondence collaboration was published in WORMS Issue 11, which was launched in December 2025. And we are now launching the digital issue online as part of Runway Issue 50.

Copies of Worms Issue 11 will be available for purchase at this event.

Issue 50: Correspondence features work by:
Alexander Cigana, Amelia Zhou, Anna Carlsson, Bree Turner, Isabella Hone-Saunders, Jonno Revanche & Wassila Abboud

This project has been made possible with the support of and the Australian Government through Creative Australia

OBLIVION by Bella LiA commissioned conversation piece combining poetry and collage, engaging with extinction, desert lan...
06/02/2026

OBLIVION by Bella Li
A commissioned conversation piece combining poetry and collage, engaging with extinction, desert landscapes, and deep geological time.

Li’s practice moves between text and image, literature and design, bringing material history and perception into dialogue. OBLIVION continues this approach, unfolding as a sequence rather than a single narrative.

Read OBLIVION via Runway Conversations.
🔗 Link in bio

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