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Peter Roberts is an Australian poet who enjoys poetry that bounces and surprises, and that most of all is accessible. Peter has been published in a range of national and international journals, including Quadrant, The Beatnik Cowboy, W-Poesis & Catchment.…

Yvette Stubbs is an award-winning published poet and a well-respected matriarch of the Melbourne poetry scene, renowned from La Mama Poetica, to Passionate Tongues, to the Dan O’Connell. After four appearances in 2019 at Scotland’s Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival in…

Julie Tawse lives in the Neerim District foothills. She is an ongoing poet and artist, and a retired educator. Her writings, poems and song lyrics have known publication and shortlisting. Close observation, place and identity are at the heart of…

Mitch Browne is a poet and bricklayer from the Blue Mountains. His work has been published in ZineWest, Quadrant, Grieve, JAMA, medmic, OfTheBook, The Sydney Morning Herald, and elsewhere. He won the ZineWest Best Poem award in 2023, and again…

Jan Napier is a Western Australian writer. Her poem ‘Early: A Morning’ won the 2023 KSP Poetry Prize. Jan lives with a cat and tries to grow poems green and graceful as her ferns.

Alex Robertson grew up in Adelaide, has been completing creative writing since a teenager, but is beginning to take this writing gig seriously. Alex is involved in writing groups, is a free verse poetry diehard and has travelled a great…

this landscape capped layer upon layer in volcanic rock — I ponder the underlying life story of this sandstone cliff seagulls follow my fishing boat into the bay a squadron of pelicans snatching the catch across the lake a moorhen…

Suzi Mezei now lives in Naarm, on lands traditionally owned by the Boonwurrung People, having been born in Sri Lanka. Her work is published in Australia and overseas in journals and anthologies in print and online; it has been performed…

Alleyne Hall has been a long-term member of the Time to Write group through Baw Baw Arts Alliance. Writing poetry for several years, she creates poems and narratives, with a focus on nature and spiritual matters, travel and family. She…

Jeannie Haughton began writing puppetry scripts, then studied writing, completed the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing and continues to write for theatre, with many produced plays under her belt. Writing short stories, non-fiction pieces and long-form poetry, she loves…