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 […]

Gemma Parker is a poet and a teacher at the University of Adelaide. Her poems and essays have been published in Transnational Literature, Award Winning Australian Writing, Writ Poetry Review and the Tokyo Poetry Journal. She was the 2016 winner of the Shoalhaven Literary Award for Poetry. She holds a PhD from the University of […]

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 […]

Stephen Pham is a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Cabramatta. He is an original member of SWEATSHOP Writers’ Collective. His essays and fiction have appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Overland, Meanjin, and Griffith Review. In 2018 Stephen received the NSW WRiters’ Fellowship from Create NSW to commence work on his debut manuscript ‘Vietnamatta’, to be published […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Troy Wong is an Australian poet born to Singaporean parents. His work, written on unceded Dharug and Gadigal land, is published or forthcoming in Antipodes, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Griffith Review, Island, The Marrow, Palette, and The Suburban Review. He is the winner of The Nomad Review “Fragility” Poetry Prize, an Australian Poetry Slam National Finalist, […]