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Confession is meant to make things clear. But often, it does the opposite. In Issue Six, Pelican Magazine explores how confession may be an admission, an accusation, a disclosure, or even a kind of performance. Who gets to confess? Who is made to? What happens when private knowledge becomes public, and what remains concealed even after the truth is told?
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‘In a sense, an un-settling of landscape is always at stake in art made in Australia, whether you intend it or not’: An Interview with Paul Boyé
Paul Boyé (they/them) is a writer and curator based in Boorloo/Perth. They are the Curator at Goolugatup Gallery, Lecturer of Art History and Curatorial Studies at The University of Western Australia, and has worked with artist-run projects such as Cool Change and un Projects over the last decade.

Ellie Fisher
2 days ago8 min read


2026 Guild Presidential Debate
The 2026 UWA Guild Presidential Debate opened with three candidates, four questions and a familiar problem: how to make student politics feel consequential to students.

Ellie Fisher
Sep 164 min read


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Aug 212 min read


An Interview with Patrick Marlborough
Nock Loose is a post-modern literary novel in the style of Thomas Pynchon, Helen DeWitt, Rovert Coover, Paul Beatty, and others. It’s at once a sorta comedic assault on the prevailing commercial trends in OzLit (airport crime fiction, small town with a big secret slop, trauma dump queer travails etc) while also a screwball literary cartoon that’s a spoof-of/homage to Australiana, fantasy novels, and this country’s tilt at national mythmaking. Most importantly, it’s fun and ca

Ellie Fisher
Jul 285 min read


An Interview with James Stanwix
Being a pretty fresh writer, my practice is really quite fluid and the form I enjoy expressing myself in shifts often.

Ellie Fisher
Jul 285 min read


An Interview with Ollie Barrett
I’m a local Perth boy, born at Subiaco St John of God, very close by! I’ve lived in America (Wyoming and Colorado) from when I was six months to eleven years old, where I learnt to ski and had a pretty odd accent which I thankfully lost when I came back to Perth in 2015.

Ellie Fisher
Jul 275 min read


Film Review: “WUTHERING HEIGHTS”
I went into Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Bronte’s famous novel with simultaneously a thousand expectations and none. Don’t cancel me when I say this, but I’ve never actually read Wuthering Heights.

Cassidy Doudakis
Jul 273 min read


Music Review: On Cameron Winter
You may have heard the name Cameron Winter floating around the place. And if you have given any of his songs a try, I can be sure that you have either become disgustingly obsessed with him, or simply disgusted.

Tess Roberts
Jul 275 min read


What Rama Duwaji is Doing Right.
By now you must have been living under a rock if you haven’t heard about New York’s latest First Lady, Rama Duwaji. The artist and activist was plunged into the spotlight some months ago in the wake of her husband Zohran Mamdani’s successful mayoral campaign, and as such has faced support and backlash from both sides of politics.

Anaïs Popoff-Asotoff
Jul 274 min read


Interview with Prema Arasu
Many of my poems emerge out of intimate moments with the group, in settings that wouldn’t necessarily be accessed by an artist doing a short-term residency with the team.

Ellie Fisher
Jul 274 min read


An Interview with your 2026 Women’s Officer, Hana Giltrap
I’m a current political science student at UWA. I took on the role of Women’s Officer with the goal of making women feel seen, included and represented on campus, with a strong sense of excitement at the idea of hosting fun events for women at UWA.

Ellie Fisher
Jul 273 min read


An Interview with Lucinda Tassone
I don’t want to freak you out, but I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice of a generation.

Ellie Fisher
Jul 277 min read


Mapping and Resisting the Return of Ultra-Thin Femininity
Where have all the fat women gone? This is a question you might have asked—or felt simmering somewhere in your gut—if you have been on the Internet in the last two years or so

Alison Lane
Jul 279 min read


Sophie McNeill’s International Women’s Day Presentation
The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day was “Balance the Scales”, advocating for the urgent need for fair, inclusive, and accessible justice for every woman and girl. For Sophie, this theme resonated with her own experiences as a human rights journalist in the Middle East and, currently, as a climate advocate, interpreting the theme to mean the need to uphold international law and justice, while also advocating for intersectional feminism.

Chenelle Liyanage
Jul 276 min read
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