Announcing the 2025 Shortlist for the Human Rights Essay Prize!

After careful deliberation, the shortlist for the 2025 Human Rights Essay Prize has been decided. Congratulations to those who have been shortlisted. Thank you to everyone who submitted an essay and to the readers and donors who make this prize possible. The winner and runner up will be announced shortly.

  • Short But Deadly

    FIRST NATIONS PRIZE

    Celebrating writing excellence, this special edition of Portside Review is dedicated to the small stories that pack a punch. The Short But Deadly competition ran over August-September 2024 and was open to Australian First Nations people living anywhere in the world. Ten winning stories were selected and are presented in this issue.

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  • here & now

    DIGITAL ANTHOLOGY

    here & now was a digital anthology project in partnership with Centre for Stories and Emerging Writers’ Festival produced for an event of the same title at the 2022 Emerging Writers’ Festival in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

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