Michelle Cahill is an Australian novelist and poet of Indian heritage. She was awarded the KWS Hilary Mantel Short Story Prize, judged by Hilary Mantel, and received the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing for Letter to Pessoa. Her work has been shortlisted in the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, and the Peter […]

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.   […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Zarah Yakubu (They/She) is a Trawlwoolway/Palawa and Mwaghavul (Nigerian) writer from Trouwunna/Lutruwita/Tasmania currently living and working on Wurundjeri country in Narrm. They wrote this poem based on a series of microaggressions they experienced during their first time living in metropolitan area. They are currently undertaking a BA in Creative Writing at RMIT.     Cracks […]

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 […]

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 […]