Aditya Tiwari
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 […]
Aliya Siya
Aliya Siya is an aspiring writer based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and a master’s student in English at the University of Madras. Their work explores themes of identity, culture and female experience. Noor Noor : It is more difficult to write about Muslim women than being a Muslim woman. It is daunting to write […]
Babi Rani Poudel
Babi Rani Poudel (she/her) is a 52-year-old trans woman, born and raised in Nepal and now an Australian citizen by conferral. A professional chef, community support worker, writer, and storyteller, she is a passionate advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights and people living with HIV (PLHIV). Babi works tirelessly to support international students, asylum seekers, and marginalized […]
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Chris Ringrose
Chris Ringrose is a poet and literary critic who lives in Melbourne. His poetry has won awards in England, Canada and Australia, and he has published critical work on modern fiction, literary theory and children’s literature. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and a poetry reviewer for the Australian Poetry Journal. […]
Carielyn Tunion
Carielyn Tunion-Lam (she/they) is a writer, videopoet, educator, and cultural worker. She has worked in the arts & cultural sector, the community services sector, and has experience using creative strategies in grassroots community organising. Carielyn is the recipient of the inaugural WSU Antigone Kefala Memorial Prize. Carielyn is interested in exploring themes of radical softness […]
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Christian Hanz Lozada
Christian Hanz Lozada aspires to be like a cat, a creature that doesn’t care about the subtleties of others and who will, given time and circumstance, eat their owner. He wrote the poetry collection He’s a Color, Until He’s Not. His Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poetry have been published in Bamboo […]
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Eunice Andrada
Eunice Andrada is a Filipina poet, journalist, lyricist and teaching artist based in Sydney. Featured in the Guardian, CNN International, ABC News and other media, she has performed her poetry in diverse international stages, from the Sydney Opera House and the deserts of Alice Springs to the United Nations Climate Negotiations in Paris. During a […]
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Debasish Lahiri
Debasish Lahiri has nine collections of poetry to his credit, the latest being A Certain Penance of Light (2025). Lahiri is the recipient of the Prix-du Merite, Naji Naaman Literary Prize 2019. Ketone The still-life of “A Sky through Leaves” painted by stone is a moving one. – Better this than a […]
Reviews & Essays
The Religion of Cricket by Jessica D’cruze
October 18, 2025
Fernanda Dahlstrom reviews Plastic Budgie by Olivia de Zilva
August 3, 2025
Kaya Wilson reviews Worthy of the Event by Vivian Blaxell
October 31, 2025
Salt, Sink, Surrender by Brittany Bentley
November 1, 2025
Paul Sharrad in conversation with Belle Ling
October 18, 2025
Joshua Bird reviews British India, White Australia by Kama Maclean
September 12, 2021
Roumina Parsa reviews What Kept You? by Raaza Jamshed
October 10, 2025
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon reviews Kaya Ortiz and Bron Bateman
October 18, 2025
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