Young Writers

Side by side: Masculinity, vulnerability and male friendship
Gavin Scott

“Two years ago I went camping for the first time. A couple of close friends and I drove three hours north-west from Melbourne to the Grampians where, with a bit of difficulty, we pitched our oversized tent. We camped for only two nights – hiking along stone gorges during the days; chatting by the crackling campfire and eating sausages in bread in the evenings – but the trip was a perfect reprieve from the busy-ness and pressures of ordinary life …”