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…
Pat Saunders is from Perth, Western Australia. She has 26 years’ experience in the Perth film and television industry, including 15 at the ABC. She was a joint winner of the 2023 Victoria Park Local History Awards (Poetry or Performance…
Janeen Samuel lives in South-West Victoria, surrounded by sheep and slumbering volcanoes. Her poems and short fiction have been published in various magazines and anthologies, while her half-finished novels sit unpublished in drawers and on laptops. Her passions are walking…
Margaret Owen Ruckert is the 2023 Society of Women Writers National Writing Competition winner for poetry. Two books, You Deserve Dessert and musefood (an IP Book of the Year), explore café culture (www.ipoz.biz). Her latest book is tanka: Sky on Sea. As Facilitator of Discovery Writers…
Kent Robinson lives in Bathurst NSW and is a poet in Japanese genres. His work is featured in print publications in Australia, including Eucalypt: he formed part of a group of poets who collaborated with Beverley George with rengay in…
Peter Roberts is an Australian poet who resides in Melbourne. He 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, most recently W-Poesis and The Beatnik Cowboy. He…
Allison Reynolds is a visual artist and emerging poet in country NSW. She lives off-grid in the “million wild acres” of The Pilliga Forest and creates work around social themes such as climate change, environmental issues, and disability. Work by…
Ian Reid is the author of 15 books across various genres, the most recent being a collection of poems, Breaking the Surface (Ginninderra Press 2023). His poetry appears in a wide range of magazines and anthologies in several countries, and his international awards…
Stephanie Powell is a poet based in Naarm / Melbourne. Her latest collection of poetry is Gentle Creatures (Vagabond Press, 2023). atticpoet.com Work by this poet
Wayne Pollard has been writing poetry for 25 years. Leading a group called Demented Echidnas (in West Gippsland), he has published a zine called Thoughts of a tired mind. Having won an open mike competition at Drouin’s Ficifolia Poetry Night,…
