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 […]

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 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 […]

Ben Hession is a disabled writer, living on Dharawal country (Wollongong), south of Sydney, Australia. His poetry has been published in Eureka Street, the International Chinese Language Forum, Cordite Poetry Review, Mascara Literary Review, Bluepepper,  Marrickville Pause, The Blue Nib, Live Encounters: Poetry and Writing, Antipodes and Don Bank Live Poets anthology Can I Tell You A Secret? […]

Jill Jones’ most recent book is How To Emerge (Vagabond Press, 2025). Her previous book, Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems, was short-listed for the 2024 John Bray Poetry Prize, long-listed for the 2024 ALS Gold Medal and commended in the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. Her work has been widely published in most of the leading literary […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]