Madhuri Pillai discovered Haiku and related forms in 2011. Her work has been published in various local and international journals. She loves bush trekking and is passionate about animal welfare. Madhuri lives in Melbourne with her family. Work by this…
Jaya Penelope is a poet and oral storyteller who lives in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar land. Her poetry has been shortlisted for The Heroines Women’s Writing Prize and The KSP Poetry Competition and published in various journals. Work…
Jan O’Loughlin is a retired teacher living in Sydney. She loves writing poetry and singing in choirs equally. Her tanka has been published in Eucalypt and in Ribbons (Tanka Society of America). Jan’s tanka about seagulls received an honorable mention…
Rebecca Weymouth is a West Gippsland writer who has loved words since her teens. Inspired by hills, bush, creeks and dirt roads. She thanks the families whose lands she made playgrounds. Rebecca moved away then returned, to birth a fourth …
Suzi Mezei is a Sri Lankan born Australian writer in Naarm. Her work is published in Australia and overseas in anthologies and journals including Island, Best of Australian Poetry, Aniko, Cordite and Hecate. She has written for stage and podcast. She…
Heather McRae is an archivist and historian, living in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. She has written and contributed to research guides and historical publications, in areas including religious, military, environmental and local history. She is currently exploring memoir and…
Walter Macmillan is a Naarm-based emerging poet originally from Western Australia. He has written short fiction published in The Pelican, but is previously unpublished as a poet. His work focuses on the human condition, relationships between people and how they are affected…
Jo McInerney is an English and Literature teacher working in Gippsland. She has been writing haiku and tanka since 2007 and has been published in Australia and overseas. Work by this poet
Hemat Malak is a Sydney author whose love of poetry began in childhood. Her self-published books, Make Mine Divine and Your Angels Called and Left a Message have earned finalist positions in the 2013 International Book Awards and the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards. …
Earl Livings has published poetry and fiction in Australia and overseas. His writing focuses on science, history, nature, mythology and the sacred. He has published two poetry collections, Further than Night and Libation, and a fantasy verse novel, The Silence Inside the World. Earl…
