Bios

Ann Curwood grew up in the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne and spent many hours at the beach. She enjoyed reading and writing poetry from a young age and her greeting cards were often popular at Markets. Tanka is something…

Andrew Hede is an emeritus professor and consulting psychologist. He lives as a hermit in a retirement village next to a national park on the outskirts of Sydney. He has published haiku in three Australian anthologies and several other journals…

Amanda Molyneaux lives in Bright in the Victorian Alpine high country. She writes and paints, being inspired creatively by nature and the landscape and also by feelings of distance and separation. She is a poetry novice but has to write…

Ahok Malak, from Northern Adelaide, South Australia, is a budding poet who has been writing poems since primary school. Enthusiastic about photography, she captures moments during long drives and explores baking recipes. This marks her first poetry submission, eager to…

Agi Dobson lives in Korumburra, where she runs the Hilltop Bards poetry group. She has written two commissioned school textbooks, worked as a journalist, teacher and in publicity. Her creative writing is consistently published in a variety of anthologies. Agi’s…

Jonathan Cant is a Sydney, NSW-based writer, poet, and musician. He won the 2023 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards for Contemporary Poetry, and was Longlisted for the 2023 Fish Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Cordite, Live Encounters, Otoliths, and…

Lili Ward is a 22 year old emerging visual artist and writer, specialising in poetry and creative short fiction, living and raised in Naarm, Victoria. she has self published three poetry zines and maintains a poetry blog for writing and…

Alice Wanderer lives on Bunurong country, in Frankston. She has received a Touchstone Award for her book, Lips Licked Clean, a selection of translations by the haiku poet, Sugita Hisajo. Her haibun, ‘Fatelines’, was placed first in the BHS awards…

Roger Vickery lives in Sydney on un-ceded Gadigal land. He has won several awards, e.g., Bruce Dawe, Lane Cove, WB Yeats and Banjo Paterson Poetry prizes. His work has been published/performed in Australia and overseas. His 2023-2024 successes include the…

Wayne Pollard has published 3 Zines. He organised poetry readings for five years. His poems reflect environmental concerns, social issues and a touch of surrealism. Work by this poet