
Grace Hu
Grace Hu is Chinese diasporic and based in Sydney. Her poetry has been published in Shot Glass Journal, Cordite Poetry Journal and Rabbit Annual. She short-listed the 2024 Woollahra Digital Literary Award. She co-wrote Chain Play and Serpent Secrets for Slanted Theatre. Chinoiserie “It’s Nietzschean slave morality, satisfaction is enough. It meets […]
Zarah Yakubu
Zarah Yakubu (They/She) is a Trawlwoolway/Palawa and Mwaghavul (Nigerian) writer from Trouwunna/Lutruwita/Tasmania currently living and working on Wurundjeri country in Narrm. They wrote this poem based on a series of microaggressions they experienced during their first time living in metropolitan area. They are currently undertaking a BA in Creative Writing at RMIT. Cracks […]
Angelina Xu
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. […]
Lionel Fogarty
Born on Wakka Wakka land at Barambah, which is now known as Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, Lionel Fogarty has travelled nationally and internationally presenting and performing his work. Since the seventies Lionel has been a prominent activist, poet writer and artist; a Murri spokesperson for Indigenous Rights in Australia and overseas. His poetry art work and oral […]
Marvellous Igwe
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 […]
Stephanie Westwood
Stephanie is a Naarm-based writer and film producer, interested in speculative fiction that pokes at the intersections between love, disability, and queerness, and laughs at political doom. She has been published in Splinter Journal, The Suburban Review, Overland, and in various zines scattered around cities and the internet. LUNA SEA The city […]
Jewel Oreskovich
Jewel Oreskovich is a Classicist, heritage researcher, and poet whose work explores representations of the posthuman in classical texts and their receptions. She holds an MPhil in Classics and Ancient History from the University of Western Australia and a Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies from Deakin University. She was awarded first place […]
Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul in 1982. Her father Murtaza Bhutto, son of Pakistan’s former President and Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and an elected member of parliament, was killed by the police in 1996 in Karachi during the premiership of his sister, Benazir Bhutto. Fatima graduated from Columbia University in 2004, majoring in Middle […]
Reviews & Essays

Michael Griffiths reviews A Savage Turn by Luke Patterson
Nina Culley reviews An Onslaught of Light by Natasha Rai
Roumina Parsa reviews Desolation by Hossein Asgari

Roumina Parsa reviews What Kept You? by Raaza Jamshed

Paul Scully reviews still black water by Simeon Kronenberg
Fergus Edwards reviews Astraea by Kate Kruimink

James Gobbey reviews Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon reviews Joss: A History by Grace Yee

Alison Stoddart reviews Salsa in the Suburbs by Alejandra Martinez

Samuel Cox reviews Apron-Sorrow/Sovereign Tea by Natalie Harkin
We pay our respects to the Darramuragal people of the land on which we live and work, their elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and thank the Palawa people of Lutruwita, Tasmania, and all Aboriginal nations as the First peoples of Australia. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.








