Forkful: The Sharehouse is the fifth issue of Forkful, a Naarm/Melbourne-based biannual magazine that celebrates Melbourne’s distinct and diverse food culture.

The Sharehouse issue is all about demystifying the culinary arts. A guide to helping the young and the wide-eyed put down the two minute noodles and find their feet in the kitchen. Inside you will find contributions from current and former Melbourne sharehouse residents about sacred sharehouse rules and traditions, dinner party how-tos, mindful cooking practices, a hinge dinner gone very wrong, affordable restaurants around Melbourne, expanding your palette, savouring food memories, budgeting to your taste and pocket, six delicious recipes, and much more.

Forkful: The Sharehouse acts as a friendly and highly-readable compatriot for the many food highs (think lavish dinner parties with top-tier goods on payday) and lows (think asking your mum to transfer you $12 for ramen) that are all part and parcel of the sharehouse experience.

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‘I feel as I'm growing, Melbourne is guiding me. Even if it's just back home’ – Savannah Selimi, Melbourne as a feeling

Offering an intimate glimpse into the fringe, diverse and everyday identities, communities and subcultures that exist in Melbourne, vox populi is an anthology reflecting our city's multifaceted culture. A love letter, a celebration and, above all, an insight into identities hidden just beneath the surface. By Melburnians, for Melburnians.

vox populi carves a window into the hidden souls of the city through poetry, essays, profiles of iconic people and places and artworks from celebrated and soon-to-be-celebrated emerging artists; touching on everything from subcultures and underground festivals to the secret history of the city's favourite watering hole and the somewhat murky past of a beloved local celebrity.

This anthology is more than the Melways you find in your back seat—it's a reflection of the new face of Melbourne.

Whether you're a local or a visitor, a newly arrived Melburnian or born-and-bred, vox populi will show you a. part of the city you've never seen before.

The Come Up is a love letter to Melbourne nightlife exploring: the good, the bad, and the ugly. We’re a celebration of the twenty-something weekend, but also a sobering reflection on the dangers involved (because let’s be honest, not every night is a fairytale).

The Comedown is a break up text to Melbourne nightlife taking a look into the grim side of partying, where it explores the benefits of 5-HTP, recounts an experience as a former strip club hostess, and an interview with a young woman who was robbed. At The Comedown, having fun and staying safe goes hand-in-hand. We hope you love this labour of love (and dancing and laughing and recovering) as much as we do.

Our hands are integral to how we interact with the world. We use our hands to express ourselves: our love, anger, anxiety, regret.

This anthology is a meditation on the meaning of clean hands featuring poetry, short stories and essays. An untethered road trip, a return home, an abandoned house. A farewell to a father, a coming together and a falling apart.

clean hands is a collection of voices exploring the cycles of change and revelation. Clean hands can be an ending or a fresh start, an altered perspective. A clean slate.

Obsess. Obsessed. Obsession.

Obsessions are haunting. They can ignite passions, distort reflections, comsume imaginations. They can tempt, torture and tear us in two. In this diverse anthology of creative non-fiction, illustrations, photographs and poetry, Obsession explores what grips us and doesn't let go. Love turns into infatuation. Bodies are reflected in bedroom mirrors. Catholic shame is transformed into queer joy. A fangirl reminisces on her all-consuming celebrity crush. A bystander regrets her actions towards an addict.

Themed across love, body, identity, culture and psyche, this collection delves into our deepest desires, our darkest secrets and reckons with some of our most invisible, yet most pressing issues.

Feed your appetite for genre fiction. Rediscover legendary tales. Indugle in your hidden fantasies. Disappear into your deepest fears and nightmares.

An ancient witch lives in a forest of death, longing for a morsel of life. A campire wonders how to save her cat. A mixed-race demon finds their true family. Return to ancient myths recounting war and tragedy. Descend into the heart of a haunted building. Be cautious of a future where your genes may cost you your life.

Monstrous Appetities aims to subvert and celebrate conventions of mythology, fantasy, horror and science fiction. These stories are rich in flavour and slimy to the touch, laying bare the otential for genre fiction to be a wellspring of literary experimentation.

This collection will challenge you, entrance you, romance you, and flip your stomach upside down. Pull up a seat, behold the smorgasbord set before you and eat your heart out.