Long Trek Press

art by Jes Layton

a black and white collage-type illustration. Text up the top reads 'I can't tell you when or how we get there ...' and text down the bottom reads 'But I can tell you stories'. There are lots of people and objects: a person with a computer screen for a head holding a paintbrush, mushrooms growing out of their head. A friend stands next to them, they have bandaids all over their skin with plants growing out from under them, a child in the background flies a kite that looks a bit like a wind turbine, there is a progress pride flag, there is a flyer with the Aboriginal flag that says 'always will be'. There are ruins of old brick buildings with lots of plants growing out of them.

Jes Layton (he/him, she/her) is a writer, illustrator and arts worker living and working on Wurundjeri Land. He is the current co-CEO and Executive Director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. Jes’ written and illustrative work can be found at SBS, Junkee, Voiceworks, Kill Your Darlings, Archer, The Big Issue and scattered elsewhere online and in print. She also has work published with Black Inc, Fremantle Press and Nero Books among others. His tweets have been written about in Teen Vogue, the Daily Mail, Screen Rant, Buzzfeed and more. Exposure was apparently payment.

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