Megan Cartwright is an author and teacher, based in Canberra (Ngunnawal and Ngambri country). Her poetry has featured in print and online in publications including Blue Bottle Journal, Broken Antler Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Cordite Poetry Review, Island Magazine, and Verandah Literary & Art Journal. She is the 2025 winner of the Tina Kane Emergent […]

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 […]

Judith Beveridge is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, most recently Sun Music: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2019 Prime Minister’s Prize for Poetry. Many of her books have won or been shortlisted for major prizes, and her poems widely studied in schools and universities. She taught poetry at the University […]

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 […]

Luoyang Chen is a Chinese poet working and living in Australia. His first poetry collection, Flow, was published by Centre for Stories/Red River Press in 2023. Their second collection, And the Waves, will be published with Puncher and Wattmann in 2025.             Sex and Power Desire Maybe befriends a fellow sea […]