Veronica Troup is an emerging poet who lives and writes on unceded Boonwurrung Country. Her writing examines ideas of women, invisibility and place. In 2024 she was longlisted for The Grieve Project, Hush Foundation & Liquid Amber Poetry Prize. She…
by Suzi Mezei Nestlings plummet hapless from shaken boughs; spat from the maw of the shrieking storm, they land waterlogged on deluged lawn. Cloudburst pastes grey plume to dermis and through water-smeared windows, frogmouths clump like rocks. Outside, under a…
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…
wanda amos lives in Old Bar, NSW. Her haiku and tanka have been published in several online blogs, forums and journals. Now retired, she enjoys travel, beach and bush walking, photography and haiku writing. Her Websites: wandas wandarings on Facebook…
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…
Rachel Skellett is an aspiring poet living in Goomburrup, Bunbury, Western Australia. Rachel acknowledges the Wardandi Noongar Aboriginal people who have lived in the South West for over 45 000 years. Inspired by their knowledge of the land, native flora…
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.…
Stephanie Powell is a poet based in Naarm Her latest collection is Invisible Wasp (Liquid Amber Press, 2024). Short-listed for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards Poetry Prize, she is the recipient of the 2024 Woorilla Poetry Prize. atticpoet.com
Kate King writes on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country in the ACT. Birds, animals, waterways and forests inspire her poetry, which has been published in Australian and international journals.
Maria Bonar’s poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction has been published in Creatrix, Award Winning Australian Writing, Catchment – Poetry of Place, Rochford Street Review, BootsnAll, numerous anthologies and online publications. A former CEO, social health researcher and parole officer,…
