We launched this website back in 2021—not long ago in geological terms, but an eternity in internet time. We’ve had fun! But the internet, it’s a busy place. And the more time we’ve spent on it, the more we’ve felt the urge to log off. To slow down. To publish something you can hold in your hands—something that doesn’t need WiFi and has the comments firmly switched off.

In other words, we felt the urge to make a good old-fashioned print magazine. And now, ten months after deciding to do things the hard way, here's what we have to show for it: a 172-page print magazine about storytelling. We call it The Story: The Magazine. And if you live in Australia, you can order a copy right now at our online store.

Like the website you know and love only a little stranger, a little more obsessive and a lot less online, The Story maps out the beautiful, messy landscape of creative life. Inside you'll find stories about the godfather of punk zines, Marxist game hackers, a poet reviewing blenders on Amazon, an incarcerated writer reporting from solitary confinement, and more.

It's weird, might give you paper cuts, and it's out now. Where, you ask?

Australian readers can purchase a copy at our online store.

Non-Australian readers can peruse this incomplete but ever-growing list of international stockists.

Run a shop and want to vastly improve it by stocking The Story? Get in touch!

Want to take a closer look? Here's a short trailer from artist Gergő Varga, who spent hours cutting up and reconstituting the magazine into this strange fever dream of a trip: