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 […]

Michelle Cahill is an Australian novelist and poet of Indian heritage. She was awarded the KWS Hilary Mantel Short Story Prize, judged by Hilary Mantel, and received the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing for Letter to Pessoa. Her work has been shortlisted in the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, and the Peter […]

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 […]

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  

Talib Dostizada is a Hazara writer originally from Quetta, Pakistan. He writes about displacement, memory, migration, belonging and the ordinary lives shaped by political violence and borders. He lives and writes on Boonwurrung Country in Naarm (Melbourne).       Only the Wind Remains He awoke to the sound of a camel coughing. The sand […]

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 […]

Maya Crombie is a zinester and fiction writer studying Creative Writing and German at The University of Melbourne, and currently a fiction editor for Voiceworks.           CLIFFS I’m staring into the sanitiser at work. Water’s dripping from the top and I’m imagining it as a water feature in a garden or […]

Sushma Joshi is a writer and filmmaker from Nepal. She has written two books of short stories. The End of the World was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award. She has a BA in International Relations from Brown University and an MA in English Literature from Middlebury College (USA) She is currently working […]