supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
Kate Olivieri lives in a mountaintop village with a handsome young rebel and mini rebellino in the beautiful Northern Rivers, NSW, Bundjalung Nation country. A poet of many years’ standing, her work is published in Hunter Writers’ Centre Grieve anthologies.…
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in the unceded land of the Wallumedegal people in NSW. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing, has published free verse, short fiction and a novel, The Lyrebird’s Cry.…
by Gregory Piko If I was to walk down the short concrete path between the squares of neatly mown green grass toward the gate with its freshly painted steel bars glowing white in the sunshine like a neon sign; if…
by Stephanie Powell there is a split above the stone harbour mouth From the window of our hotel room, I could use a finger To unpick it To break it open To jiggle about the wound Or leave it Enjoy…
Alfreed Fandangle was born and raised, and continues to live, in South-East Queensland. His poetry is rich with reference, literary history, high and low culture, pop music, and more. It has been described as, ‘ricocheting around the page like sonic…
Pat Saunders is from Perth, Western Australia and is a runner-up in this year’s Sejong International Sijo Competition. Her poetry appears in Verge and redrosethorns. Her short fiction features in the recently released anthologies The Heart Will Find A Way,…
Rob McKinnon lives in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. His poetry has been published in Meanjin Quarterly, under the same moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology Forty South Publishing, and other online and print journals. He has been nominated for Best of…
Gregory Piko lives in Canberra, ACT. His writing was awarded First Prize in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Haiku Competition and joint winner in the WB Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia. His most recent haiku collection is breaking my…
Tuyet Van Do lives in Melbourne, Australia. She loves arranging flowers, painting, poetry and writes whenever inspiration strikes. Her work has appeared in various publications both online and in print. She was nominated for the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems…
by Alleyne Hall In memoriam Les Hall, my father, senior constable On stage, aged eleven, before two world wars, then a senior country policeman – where did the years go? How did I get to this place of silence? At…