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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Amy Bodossian is an acclaimed cabaret spoken word icon and published poet known for her blend of whimsy, wit, and heartfelt storytelling. With appearances on ABC’s Spicks and Specks and Please Like Me, and performances at major festivals like Big Day Out and Woodford Folk Festival, she has earned awards such as the Green Room Award […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]