upcoming editions

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Every year, we aim to publish three themed editions. We choose topics based on subjects we think are most engaging to students. Previous magazines have explored sex and health, the environment, and artificial intelligence. There’s prompts below to inspire your pieces, but submissions are by no means restricted to these lists. It’s important the magazine reflects a broad range of perspectives, so dive into the theme below and send your work to us at curieux@canberra.edu.au.

GENERAL GUIDELINES:

  • Articles / Essays / Creative Writing / Reviews – 1500 words max.

  • Poetry – 40 lines max.

  • Lists – 15 items max.

  • Visual Art / (Photos of) sculpture / Photography – 4 images per submission max.

  • Film – 20 minutes max.

  • Original Music – 10 minutes max.

Note: If you can’t meet the guidelines, get in touch and we may be able to accommodate your piece.

SUBMISSIONS: NOW OPEN, CLOSING MID NOVEMBER 2026!

Dog walking? Selling on Etsy? Babysitting? This Curieux themed edition focuses on your side hustle. We're giving out two $100 gift cards for submissions to Hustle to support your side hustle. We welcome submissions about making money your hustle failures and successes.

Submit to curieux@canberra.edu.au for a chance to win a giftcard!!!!

PROMPTS FOR Hustle

ARTICLES:

  • Break down what actually makes a good resume, drawing on careers-service or recruiter advice

  • Interview students running a side hustle (Etsy, dog walking, babysitting, tutoring) about what it's really like

  • Time management on a student budget: juggling uni, work and a side hustle without burning out

  • The financial literacy gap: what school and uni don't teach about money, and what students wish they'd known

  • Investigate the gig economy for students: pay, rights, and exploitation risks in casual and app-based work

  • A hustle failure story: what went wrong, what it cost, and what came out of it

  • Compare the "girlboss hustle culture" of the 2010s to how students think about work and money now

  • Look into student loans, HECS debt and how money pressure shapes course and career choices

  • Profile a UC student or grad who turned a side hustle into a real business

  • Explore the psychology of hustle culture: is grinding actually productive, or just anxiety with good marketing

 

CREATIVE:

  • The resume that never gets picked

  • What's left over after payday

  • A hustle that goes somewhere it shouldn't

  • The price of something that was never meant to be sold

  • A guide to failing spectacularly

  • Money, from its own point of view

  • Success, but not for the reason you'd hope

  • Grinding towards something that keeps moving

  • The moment the hard work wasn't enough

  • What you did instead

Design:

  • The setup nobody sees — where the real work actually happens

  • What's left when the money's gone

  • The uniform of getting by

  • Running on empty

  • Money you'll never hold

  • The mask of confidence

  • Two clocks, two speeds

  • What ambition looks like in the dark

  • Caught before the outcome

  • Stillness as resistance

  • What it's like under the (metaphorical) glass ceiling