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 landscape, 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.
Vivid.
Evocative. Independent.
The Bicheno Stories
Where place remembers.
Edition 01 of The Bicheno Stories, a printed magazine devoted entirely to Bicheno, is now available online and instore.
The Bicheno Stories is an independent print publication devoted to one coastal town, its remembered past, its living present, and the futures taking shape beneath both.
We publish slow-made editions, closer to books than magazines (a love letter), created to be kept and returned to. Within them are stories carried forward: voices inherited, silences observed, moments gathered before they disappear. Between stories, we share fragments, photographs, essays, and reflections shaped by season, tide, and time.
Bicheno is a place built from memory: from hands that worked the water and land, from summers that never quite leave the body, from losses that changed the way people stayed. But it is also a place still becoming, where new lives arrive, old questions resurface, and the future quietly presses its weight against the past.
These pages hold what has been, while making room for what comes next.
This is how a town remembers itself.
This is how it endures.
Letters from Bicheno
A few times each year, a letter is written from Bicheno and sent quietly by email.
This year’s letters are exchanged between two lovers separated by war.
They arrive without schedule, shaped by place, distance, and what cannot be said.