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Pelican is the editorially independent student magazine of the University of Western Australia. Written by students, published by students, read by students, we've been bringing you the scoop since 1930!

Our latest edition is on the theme of MEMORY. Memory sits close to the body. Issue Four is filled with work that engages with memory in all its forms: personal and collective, inherited and imagined. It surfaces in fragments, in images that won’t leave, in the small details that press unexpectedly against the present. It is unreliable, intimate, strange, and often unfinished.

Meet Your 2026 Guild President: An Interview with Ollie Barrett

Ellie Fisher: This isn’t the first time you’ve held a position in the UWA Guild—last year you served as Vice President, under the leadership of your predecessor, Nikhita Talluri—but for students who haven’t had the chance to encounter their 113th President yet: who is Ollie Barrett? Ollie Barrett: I’m a local Perth boy, born at Subiaco St John of God, very close by! I’ve lived in America (Wyoming and Colorado) from when I was six months to eleven years old, where I learnt to

Music Review: On Cameron Winter

Tess Roberts (she/her) is a second-year student of English Literature and Gender Studies at UWA. Interested in creative writing, she also loves analysis of film, music and popular culture. She is a sub-editor in Film & Theatre at Pelican Magazine. You may have heard the name Cameron Winter floating around the place. And if you have given any of his songs a try, I can be sure that you have either become disgustingly obsessed with him, or simply disgusted. I have found, during

An Interview with Lucinda Tassone

Ellie Fisher: Tell us about yourself, in whatever way feels most interesting to you. Lucinda Tassone: I don’t want to freak you out, but I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice of a generation. Or at least that’s what I would say if I was Hannah Horvath. Aside from being a major fan of pop culture and media, if I were to describe myself in terms of fonts, I would say I actively try to be a Times New Roman, but I’m actually more of a Papyrus in my

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