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Henry Nguyen is a Kaurna land based communication designer and illustrator originally from Vietnam. His work is inspired by daily conversations and observation mainly on: gender politics, gender-neutral storytelling, the human-nature relationship, the self and folklores. Taking elements from those, his work takes shape in quirky creatures, colours along with a narrative reflecting my opinions in a way that speaks to him the most. @henry_creativ

A painting with bold colours and shapes, of a young girl on the left-hand side with a black bob and in a pink and blue jumper with a flower on the front, stripey pink pants and slides with pink socks. In one hand she holds a glittering sword. She raises her right hand where it crosses over with the legs of the large purple horse rearing up on the right-hand side of the painting. The horse is standing on its hind legs, is wearing pink high-heeled boots on all four feet, and has a long swishing tail. The figures are on an aqua background and turqouise floor, surrounded by sparkling golden coins. The horse has an orange cloudy speech bubble filled with more coins. A cheeky little beige cat rests on top of the horse.

December 10, 2021

Non-Fiction

on debt and horse-riding camp

Henry Nguyen, Wen-Juenn Lee

a soft, unarmoured thing — Nonfiction by Wen-Juenn Lee
Sounds in a Strange Land — by Wen-Juenn Lee
T Huang: The Tennis Jock — by Tina Huang
A Writer's Silence — by Omar Sakr
(im)material inheritances — by Shu-Ling Chua
Interviewing Anna Kharzeeva — Interview by Lee Tran Lam
Swimming, & Other Unnatural Things — by Patrick Lenton, GDS #35
Hey Man — by Jack Kirne
No Shame in the Void — by Mira Schlosberg
Female Monsters, a Roman Goddess and Darwin: On Womanhood and Body When You Have Cancer — by Amal Awad
Forms of Convenience — by Jamie Marina Lau
Playing K-Pop Here — by Soo-Min Shim
In the Belly of the Trojan Horse — by Ahmed Yussuf
Do Planners Dream of Electric Trees? — by Timmah Ball
Abscess — Nonfiction by Jennifer Down
How the Coronavirus Rewrote My Passion Project: A Play — A short play by Joel Burrows.
Offerings — by Anna Roscoe
dot dash — Creative non-fiction from Sar Fegan
Sometimes texas is just texas, sometimes it’s a state — Words by Hasib Hourani & art by Linda Liu
On Conifers — by Annelise Roberts
Salt in other people's wounds — by Hasib Hourani
Folding tofu skins while Shanghai stills — GDS Reads... by Jinghua Qian
Beekeep — Non-fiction by Henry Chase Richards
A Recipe for Frittata (and Anxiety) — by Joel Burrows
Here is a home — Memoir from Georgia Mill
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee — by Clare Millar
The Fat of the Land — Non-fiction from Liz Crash