Kellie Asmussen grew up climbing trees, catching tadpoles on Gunaikurnai country. She has explored and lived on Bunurong, Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung lands, avoiding cities in preference for the country smell. Kellie is committed to improving education for those…
Amanda Allan, retired, has lived in West Gippsland, Victoria, for over 35 years. She is a member of Jindivick Writers Group and edits the local newsletter. Amanda enjoys hiking, running, riding and camping within our beautiful natural environment, both locally…
Dianne Dean is from North East Victoria and has learned over the years that a breeze before a storm means it is time to turn the fire radio up. She loves writing, crochet and karate. She also manages the Australian…
Laurie Keim’s recent volumes of poetry are Writing On Air (2015), Future of Music (2020) and Between The Mirror And The Bed (2024) His stories have been shortlisted in 2024: Bournemouth Flash Fiction, Sorrento Creative Writing Prize and 500 Flash.…
Samira Stephens is a Bengali-Australian poet and artist, based in Naarm, Australia. Samira’s work explores the delicate nature of the human experience. Work by this poet
Carmel Summers is a Canberra poet. Her poetry has been published in journals in Australia and overseas as well as in anthologies and The Canberra Times. Her work includes a range of genres, including Japanese forms, formal and unstructured poetry and…
Kim Waters lives in Melbourne. She has a Master of Arts in creative writing. Her poems have appeared in Cordite, The Australian, Going Down Swinging Online, Under the Radar and The Shanghai Literary Review. At the moment she is enjoying reading the poetry of…
Heather McRae lives in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. She works as an archivist and has written and contributed to historical publications. Lately, she has been exploring memoir and poetry. One of her poems was included in the first…
Em Thomas-Wilson is a writer who moved to Naarm/ Melbourne after growing up on Whadjuk Noongar country, in Boorloo/ Perth and the South West. These, her first published poems, deal with the emotional experience of preservation—its possibility, its impossibility—and with…
Tony Steven Williams is a Canberra poet, short-fiction author and occasional songwriter. Both light-hearted and gloomy themes inhabit his work; however, the environment and the human condition are particularly important to him. Tony has two poetry collections (Ginninderra Press): Sun and Moon,…
