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…
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…
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…
Les Wicks has been published across 39 countries in 17 languages. His 15th book of poetry is Time Taken – New & Selected (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022). He can be found at leswicks.tripod.com
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…
Wayne Pollard has published three zines. He organised poetry readings for five years in West Gippsland, Victoria, as convenor of the Demented Echidnas Poetry Collective. He has also been a member of the Time to Write group, through the Baw…
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…
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…
Marilyn Humbert lives on Darug and GuriNgai land in Berowra, NSW Australia. Her tanka and haiku appear in many international, Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions, published in anthologies, journals and…
by Rodney Williams 1. I turn to glimpse through glass one passing stream as a tram lurches around the bend across this bridge down at the bottom of High Street from Northcote heading south – if barely seeing the Merri…
