Salt, Sink, Surrender by Brittany Bentley
Brittany Bentley is a poet and writer who is living, working and creating on Yugambeh Country. She is currently studying Creative Writing and English literature at the University of Queensland. Her work has been published in Meanjin. Salt, Sink, Surrender There are days when I forget how to breathe, and so, I […]
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 […]
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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Pam Brown
Pam Brown lives in Sydney on Gadigal land. She has been active in the Australian poetry scene in diverse modes for five decades & has published many books, pamphlets & chapbooks. A new collection of poems, Guess the Experience, is out from Hunter Publishers in October 2025. Blueprint on the murray’s […]
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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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Ben Hession
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? Ben […]
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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. […]
Šime Knežević
Šime Knežević was born in 1985 and lives in Sydney. His debut poetry chapbook, The Hostage, was published by Subbed In. His poetry has appeared in Ambit (UK), Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Magma (UK), SAND (Germany), Signal House Edition, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and elsewhere. Šime was a recipient […]
Reviews & Essays
Finley Japp reviews Find Me at the Jaffa Gate by Micaela Sahhar
September 30, 2025
Roumina Parsa reviews What Kept You? by Raaza Jamshed
October 10, 2025
Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn reviews Lithosphere by Ben Walter
November 15, 2025
Kaya Wilson reviews Worthy of the Event by Vivian Blaxell
October 31, 2025
Paul Sharrad in conversation with Belle Ling
October 18, 2025
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon reviews Kaya Ortiz and Bron Bateman
October 18, 2025
Nina Culley reviews The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana
October 3, 2025
James Gobbey reviews Human/Nature by Jane Rawson
August 11, 2025
Joshua Bird reviews British India, White Australia by Kama Maclean
September 12, 2021
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