HOUSING SIMULATOR 2023 / ZENOBIA FROST

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A headshot of Zenobia Frost by Kate Lund.
Zenobia Frost
Zenobia Frost is a poet from Brisbane. Her latest collection, After the Demolition (Cordite Books), won the 2020 Wesley Michel Wright Award and was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. She is currently building a stairway to space in No Man’s Sky. Explore her playable poems at https://zenfrost.itch.io/.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

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#31 Subscribe. A cover artwork by Maddison Henriks. Image is a black and white illustration on a pastel sage green background. In the bottom half of the image, three feminine figures appear in black and white. They are surrounded by a fluid, squiggle-like border broken up by star shapes. Each face is different—one has her hair tied up in a ponytail, with a long fringe pinned back on each side, 90s style. They are facing the right side, looking pensive. Below and to the left, the second face has free flowing wavy hair with curtain bangs, freckles on their face, and their mouth is slightly open. They are facing the left but their eyes are glancing to the right, as if curious about something. The final figure in the bottom right corner has their eyes shut and face scrunched, with their tongue poking upwards out of their mouth. Their expression is cheeky or rebellious. Behind the drawings of the three faces, pixelated paper aeroplanes cover the background of the image, all positioned at different angles.
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