| Poetry
Diane Fahey
Diane Fahey is the author of sixteen poetry collections, most recently The Light Café (Liquid Amber Press, 2023) and Sanctuaries (Puncher & Wattmann, 2024). She has received various awards and fellowships for her poetry, including the ACT Government’s Judith Wright Prize, and been short-listed for six other major book awards. Her poetry has been published widely in Australia and […]
Luna Sea by 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 […]
Aliya Siya
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 […]
| Poetry
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 […]
| Fiction
A.D. John
A. D. John is a Wiradjuri writer residing on Gadigal land. He is a recipient of the 2023 Penguin Random House “Write It” Fellowship and the 2023 Writing NSW Diverse Writers Mentorship with World Fantasy Award finalist Eugen Bacon. He is currently studying for an MA in creative writing at the University of Sydney. […]
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 […]
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 […]
| Poetry
Alison J Barton
Alison J Barton is a Wiradjuri poet based in Melbourne. Themes of race relations, Aboriginal-Australian history, colonisation, gender and psychoanalytic theory are central to her poetry. She was the inaugural winner of the Cambridge University First Nations Writer-in-Residence Fellowship and received a Varuna Mascara Residency. Her debut collection, Not Telling is published by Puncher and […]
Reviews & Essays
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon reviews Kaya Ortiz and Bron Bateman
October 18, 2025
Joshua Bird reviews British India, White Australia by Kama Maclean
September 12, 2021
Roumina Parsa reviews What Kept You? by Raaza Jamshed
October 10, 2025
Paul Sharrad in conversation with Belle Ling
October 18, 2025
Kaya Wilson reviews Worthy of the Event by Vivian Blaxell
October 31, 2025
Nina Culley reviews The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana
October 3, 2025
Finley Japp reviews Find Me at the Jaffa Gate by Micaela Sahhar
September 30, 2025
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