Angelina Xu is a writer, educator and editor based in Naarm. Her work focuses on queer culture, food and contemporary literature but you can find her writing about anything that passes her mind. She has been published in Archer Magazine and The Griffith Review and is currently in the process of launching her substack.   […]

Vale David Malouf (1934 – 2026).   David Malouf was born in Brisbane in 1934. Since ‘Interiors’ in Four Poets 1962, he has published poetry, novels and short stories, essays, opera libretto and a play, and he is widely translated. His novels include Ransom, The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ prize and the […]

Earl Livings is an award-winning poet and fiction writer who has published two poetry collections, Libation (Ginninderra Press) and Further than Night (Bystander Press), and a fantasy verse novel, The Silence Inside the World (Peggy Bright Books). He lives in Melbourne with his wife and their groaning bookshelves. (www.earl-livings.com)     Sphinx Rock Sorrento Back […]

Nourhan Abdallah is a novelist, short fiction writer and poet from Egypt who now lives in Australia. She works as a multidisciplinary creative professional and graphic designer. She holds a degree in Theatre Criticism and Drama. Nourhan is an Arabic language teacher for children, focusing on developing reading, writing, and expressive skills through engaging and […]

Brenda is a First Nations Wiradjuri writer and performer living in Katoomba. Her poetry and short fiction appear in edited anthologies and journals both on-line and in print, including Westerly, Australian Poetry, Live Encounters, Mascara,the Circular Anthology of Best Australian Prose Poems 2021, Best Australian Poems 2022. She performed her memoir, My Mob, as a […]

Lieu Chi Nguyen is a Vietnamese Australian emerging writer and scholar residing on Yirrganydji Country. She has been a member of Sweatshop Literacy Movement since 2017. Her short fiction and non-fiction have been published in SBS Voices, Kill Your Darlings and various anthologies, namely This Little Red Thing (Sweatshop 2019), Sweatshop Women (Sweatshop 2019 and […]

Zoleikha Baloch is a Baloch writer based in Iran. She writes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction centered on women’s lives, memory, and resilience in Balochistan. Her work has appeared in seven international literary journals, including Solarpunk Magazine, Sky Island Journal, Chestnut Review, and belladonna’s garden. Through her writing, she seeks to bring Baloch voices and […]

Jonno Revanche is an interdisciplinary writer currently based in Sydney on Gadigal land. bell ringing – Distant beyond vision – And, honestly? we’ve got it allcovered