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 […]

Sevana Ohandjanian is a writer, translator and film programmer of Armenian descent, living and writing on Wallumedegal land. Her work can be found in Meanjin, Chogwa, The Suburban Review, Shabby Doll House, The Wrong Quarterly, Tincture, SBS and more. Her unpublished manuscript Black Grass was shortlisted for the 2017 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Prize. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]