| Poetry
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 […]
Marion Kickett & John Kinsella
Marion Kickett is a Noongar woman from the Noongar nation and Balardong language group. She has family connections to Wongatha and Yamatji countries. Born in the wheatbelt town of York, Western Australia she spent her early life on the York reserve and commenced school from here. Although Marion has dedicated her career to the fields […]
Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. He won the 2018 Castello di Duino Poesia Prize, Italy, and the 2022 Special ANMIG poetry prize, organized by the Centro Giovanni e Poesia di Truiggio, Italy. In 2023, he was a runner-up in the Sparks Poetry Competition, Memorial University, Canada and in the African and African-American Studies Program […]
Reha Mohammad
Reha Mohammad was born in Afghanistan and grew up in Ghor, where he finished his schooling. He graduated as Bachelor of Arts in Dari/Farsi Literature and Humanities at Herat University. In Kabul, he taught Farsi literature in private schools and contributed essays to Hasht e Subh and other national print media. He came to Australia […]
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 […]
| Poetry
Diane Fahey
Diane Fahey is the author of sixteen poetry collections, most recently The Light Café (Liquid Amber Press, 2023) and Sanctuaries (Puncher & Wattmann, 2024). She has received various awards and fellowships for her poetry, including the ACT Government’s Judith Wright Prize, and been short-listed for six other major book awards. Her poetry has been published widely in Australia and […]
Javeria Hasnain
Javeria Hasnain is a Pakistani poet and writer, a Fulbright scholar, and an MFA student at The New School, NY. Her prose and poetry have appeared/is forthcoming in Poet Lore, The Margins, Isele, and elsewhere. She was a runner-up for the 2022 The Bird in Your Hands prize and an honorable mention in the 2022 […]
| Poetry
Sarah Day
Sarah Day’s Slack Tide (Pitt Street Poetry) was published in 2022. Her previous books have won the Queensland Premier’s and ACT prizes and been shortlisted for the NSW, Tasmanian Premier’s, and Prime Minister’s awards. She has collaborated with musicians, and judged national poetry, fiction, and nature-writing competitions. Her poem, ‘l’Orpheline’, was shortlisted in this year’s Peter Porter […]
Reviews & Essays
Alison Stoddart reviews Salsa in the Suburbs by Alejandra Martinez
December 29, 2025
Samuel Cox reviews Apron-Sorrow/Sovereign Tea by Natalie Harkin
November 17, 2025
Kaya Wilson reviews Worthy of the Event by Vivian Blaxell
October 31, 2025
Paul Sharrad in conversation with Belle Ling
October 18, 2025
Nina Culley reviews The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana
October 3, 2025
Nina Culley reviews An Onslaught of Light by Natasha Rai
February 6, 2026
Roumina Parsa reviews What Kept You? by Raaza Jamshed
October 10, 2025
Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn reviews Lithosphere by Ben Walter
November 15, 2025
Timmah Ball reviews Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun by Jackie Wang
January 27, 2026
Paul Scully reviews still black water by Simeon Kronenberg
February 15, 2026
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