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Hemat Malak is an accountant and poet, writing from Picton, NSW. She writes on themes of identity, motherhood and life. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Quadrant Magazine, Rattle, Rochford Street Review, Catchment and anthologies including WestWords…

Kitty Owens lives on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne, and her practice includes poetry, stories, essays and visual art. She works as a history curator. Kitty was commissioned to create a mini-zine of poetry about Coburg Lake, by the UNESCO Melbourne…

Pauline Cleary lives in regional Victoria and writes short fiction and poetry. In 2024, she has poems on the Australian Children’s Poetry site; New South Wales School Magazine; Poetica Christi Anthology. She has fiction in Short Stories Unlimited; Laura Literary…

Rohan Buettel lives in Canberra on land whose traditional custodians are the Ngunnawal people. His haiku appear in various Australian and international journals (including Presence, Cattails and The Heron’s Nest). His longer poetry appears in numerous journals, including Rattle, The…

Hazel Hall (Canberra) is a poet, musicologist, editor and international judge of short forms. She recently directed the Poetry at Manning Clark House poetry series in Canberra. She has published five poetry books of poetry and four chapbooks. Hazel and…

Jo Whitelaw lives in Yinnar, Victoria, on Gunaikurnai land. She enjoys singing and song writing. Having previously participated in the online poetry forum of Eclectic Creators Unite, she recently tiptoed into publicly performing some of her work. Jo is looking…

Robyn Cairns is a poet who resides in Naarm She experiences great joy in the challenge and love of writing short form and prose poetry to express both her emotional and sensory connection to the world. Robyn has two chapbooks…

Margaret (Margo) Owen Ruckert is a prize-winning poet, with a wide variety of poetry published – Australia and overseas. Two books You Deserve Dessert and musefood explore café culture. Her latest book of tanka Sky on Sea explores Sydney’s waterways. Margaret…

Andrew Hede is an emeritus professor living as a hermit in a retirement village adjacent to a national park on the outskirts of Sydney. He teaches and writes about stillness meditation. He has published haiku in three Australian anthologies and…

Kris Hemensley was the co-ordinator of Collected Works Bookshop (now Book Treehouse). His last book was Your Scratch Entourage (Cordite, 2016); plus a chapbook From the Blue Notebook (Now Orries Press, 2022). His ‘Topographies’ work is part of a larger…