Issue no. 17
November 2025 - February 2026
contours
​1 story every 3 weeks from mid-November until early February
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Contours mark the outlines of perception and understanding, where meaning is emergent and shifting. Contours trace lines of connection and imagination, where boundaries push up against open space. In this issue, Fulya Pınar follows the mundane routines of migrant life in Turkey. Sandra W Rodríguez Castañeda searches Peru for a girl whose death she heard about years earlier. Fiona Murphy explores the contours of a new vocabulary from the internet age. Anna Gustaffson wonders about human touch in a world of Zoom screens. Dilshanie Perera learns about land and loss in Bangladesh’s delta region.
Grace H Zhou
Rumours move faster than files
published on 12 November
Do you remember that girl?
I remember that girl who died from an abortion
Sandra W Rodríguez Castañeda
to appear on 3 December
The light between strangers
There’s a word that moves like a breath across the internet
Fiona Murphy
to appear on 24 December
Future boxes
One woman floats in a blurred background/ She sits nowhere
Anna Gustaffson
to appear on 14 January
How the world actually works
the roofs of homes were sheared off and went flying through the air
Dilshanie Perera
to appear on 4 February
Contours was curated by Grace H Zhou
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The stories were edited by Orkideh Behrouzan, Eleni Kotsira, Jose Sherwood Gonzalez and Grace H Zhou. The interviews were conducted by Eleni Kotsira, Rosa Sansone, Jose Sherwood Gonzalez and Grace H Zhou