Talib Dostizada is a Hazara writer originally from Quetta, Pakistan. He writes about displacement, memory, migration, belonging and the ordinary lives shaped by political violence and borders. He lives and writes on Boonwurrung Country in Naarm (Melbourne).       Only the Wind Remains He awoke to the sound of a camel coughing. The sand […]

Maya Crombie is a zinester and fiction writer studying Creative Writing and German at The University of Melbourne, and currently a fiction editor for Voiceworks.           CLIFFS I’m staring into the sanitiser at work. Water’s dripping from the top and I’m imagining it as a water feature in a garden or […]

Jane Gibian is a poet and librarian living on Bidjigal land in Sydney, whose latest collection of poetry is Beneath the Tree Line (Giramondo, 2021). She was awarded the 2027 Blignault Family Poetry Fellowship at Varuna, the National Writers’ House. She also writes about libraries, history and the environment.     In an alpine land […]

Lisa Nan Joo is a writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her writing has appeared in Seizure and Meanjin, among others. In 2022 she was shortlisted for the Richell Prize. She has a PhD in Creative Practice from UNSW, where she has also taught creative writing. Her debut novel is Mother Waters.     Plastic […]

Jim Gill is an autistic writer and poet living on Gumbaynggirr country. His writing appears in Oystercatcher Two, Meniscus, Varnish Online, Verandah, Dark Poets and elsewhere. Jim’s poem, ‘The Stranger’, was shortlisted in the Sutherland Shire Literary Competition. Jim holds a PhD in Archaeology, as well as degrees in Cultural Heritage and Education. He currently […]

Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe, Swan X, is a poet from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He has been published in Agbowó, Chestnut Review, Electric Literature, Palette Poetry, Poet Lore, Sontag Magazine,  Collaborature, Weganda Review, Cloudscent Journal, Serotonin, Isele, Dawn Review, amongst others. He is the winner of the 2024 Kukogho Iruesiri Samson Poetry Prize, co-winner of the 2024 […]

Vale David Malouf (1934 – 2026).   David Malouf was born in Brisbane in 1934. Since ‘Interiors’ in Four Poets 1962, he has published poetry, novels and short stories, essays, opera libretto and a play, and he is widely translated. His novels include Ransom, The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ prize and the […]

Ayah Al-Masyabi is a journalist, writer, and artist whose work revolves around the power of stories. She resists the temptation to end with hope as she wrestles with questions that rarely have answers. She has been published in DAIRA, Westword, the Colorado Sun, The Mantelpiece, Literary Purveyor, Youth Communication, Inspire the Mind, and YR Media. You […]