
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gemma Parker
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 […]
Reviews & Essays


James Gobbey reviews Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Nina Culley reviews An Onslaught of Light by Natasha Rai

Brian Obiri-Asare reviews Two Hundred Million Musketeers by Ender Başkan
Fergus Edwards reviews Astraea by Kate Kruimink

Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn reviews Lithosphere by Ben Walter

Roumina Parsa reviews What Kept You? by Raaza Jamshed

Paul Scully reviews still black water by Simeon Kronenberg
Roumina Parsa reviews Desolation by Hossein Asgari

Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon reviews Joss: A History by Grace Yee

Alison Stoddart reviews Salsa in the Suburbs by Alejandra Martinez

Tamara Lazaroff reviews Peace Crimes by Kieran Finnane
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.







