Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe, Swan X, is a poet from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He has been published in Agbowó, Chestnut Review, Electric Literature, Palette Poetry, Poet Lore, Sontag Magazine,  Collaborature, Weganda Review, Cloudscent Journal, Serotonin, Isele, Dawn Review, amongst others. He is the winner of the 2024 Kukogho Iruesiri Samson Poetry Prize, co-winner of the 2024 […]

Ayah Al-Masyabi is a journalist, writer, and artist whose work revolves around the power of stories. She resists the temptation to end with hope as she wrestles with questions that rarely have answers. She has been published in DAIRA, Westword, the Colorado Sun, The Mantelpiece, Literary Purveyor, Youth Communication, Inspire the Mind, and YR Media. You […]

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 […]

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 […]

Aditya Tiwari is one of modern India’s leading gay poets. His first collection of poems, April is Lush, was published in 2019 and garnered international recognition, followed by the anthology Over the Rainbow: India’s Queer Heroes in 2023, released during India’s historic marriage equality hearings to critical acclaim. The book was named one of The […]

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 […]

Jim Gill is an autistic writer and poet living on Gumbaynggirr country. His writing appears in Oystercatcher Two, Meniscus, Varnish Online, Verandah, Dark Poets and elsewhere. Jim’s poem, ‘The Stranger’, was shortlisted in the Sutherland Shire Literary Competition. Jim holds a PhD in Archaeology, as well as degrees in Cultural Heritage and Education. He currently […]

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 […]