Current issue: 26.1
In this issue, we begin at Waubs Bay, where granite, light and water set the tone for Bicheno’s enduring relationship with place. From there, the journal moves along the coastline and into memory, tracing how land, weather and time shape the lives lived here.
We reflect on geology and country, on silence and return, and on the invisible seams that bind past and present. Essays and photographs sit alongside fiction and vignette, pausing at Peggy’s Point, listening to the shifting colour of sea and sky, and following a woman drawn home by loss and the quiet insistence of land.
Throughout, this first edition is attentive to what Bicheno holds and what it keeps, not as history or nostalgia, but as something living, patient, and still unfolding.
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WELCOME EDITORIAL:
Adam Martin (Editor) on the meaning and purpose of The Bicheno Stories.
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BICHENO MEMORY:
A long-form essay exploring how this coastline remembers everything: footsteps, silences, grief, joy, and the long patience of granite.
Page 19
ON MEMORY:
On geology, Country, and the histories embedded in stone and sand, from the first songs to the last storms.
Page 23
SHORT STORY: The Granite.
A lyrical work of fiction about Laura, a woman drawn home by loss and the enduring presence of the land.
Page 45
MOMENTS IN TIME:
Vignettes and glimpses of Peggy’s Point and how it carries different lives.
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ALCHEMY OF COLOUR - Kodachrome:
A meditation on the ever-shifting palette of Bicheno’s water and sky, as shown through 1960 historical images.
Page 81
THE SEAM:
An essay on the invisible thread connecting past and present, land, sea, and the stories stitched between them.
Page 91
THE QUIET THAT HOLDS US:
A closing reflection on silence, memory, and the profound stillness of this coast.