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 […]

Brenda is a First Nations Wiradjuri writer and performer living in Katoomba. Her poetry and short fiction appear in edited anthologies and journals both on-line and in print, including Westerly, Australian Poetry, Live Encounters, Mascara,the Circular Anthology of Best Australian Prose Poems 2021, Best Australian Poems 2022. She performed her memoir, My Mob, as a […]

TextaQueen is a non-binary, disabled, settler-immigrant Goan writer, curator and artist living on Wurundjeri Country. Wielding tools beyond their namesake felt-tip, they present creative non-fiction, personal essays, satire, and poetry about othered bodies, land, power, trauma, and their relationships. Their writing has appeared in Disability Arts Online, Peril, Bollywouldn’t, and Crip Stories. They have performed […]

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 […]

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 […]

Angelina Xu is a writer, educator and editor based in Naarm. Her work focuses on queer culture, food and contemporary literature but you can find her writing about anything that passes her mind. She has been published in Archer Magazine and The Griffith Review and is currently in the process of launching her substack.   […]

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 […]

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 […]