
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 […]
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 […]
Troy Wong
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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


Brian Obiri-Asare reviews Two Hundred Million Musketeers by Ender Başkan
Nina Culley reviews An Onslaught of Light by Natasha Rai

Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn reviews Lithosphere by Ben Walter

Alison Stoddart reviews Salsa in the Suburbs by Alejandra Martinez
Fergus Edwards reviews Astraea by Kate Kruimink

Tamara Lazaroff reviews Peace Crimes by Kieran Finnane

Paul Scully reviews still black water by Simeon Kronenberg

James Gobbey reviews Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Samuel Cox reviews Apron-Sorrow/Sovereign Tea by Natalie Harkin

Nina Culley reviews The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana
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.








