
Jason Gray
Jason Gray is the multi-racial Mauritian Australian author of prize-winning book, HAUNT (THE KOOLIE) (Subbed In, 2019), and the winner (2012) and judge (2018-2019) of Zine West Word. He has been published widely, including The Suburban Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Written Off Club, Overland, Liminal Mag’s Collisions, Griffith Review, Zine West and Seizure. He was […]
Nourhan Abdallah
Nourhan Abdallah is a novelist, short fiction writer and poet from Egypt who now lives in Australia. She works as a multidisciplinary creative professional and graphic designer. She holds a degree in Theatre Criticism and Drama. Nourhan is an Arabic language teacher for children, focusing on developing reading, writing, and expressive skills through engaging and […]
Jewel Oreskovich
Jewel Oreskovich is a Classicist, heritage researcher, and poet whose work explores representations of the posthuman in classical texts and their receptions. She holds an MPhil in Classics and Ancient History from the University of Western Australia and a Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies from Deakin University. She was awarded first place […]
Jonno Revanche
Jonno Revanche is an interdisciplinary writer currently based in Sydney on Gadigal land. bell ringing – Distant beyond vision – And, honestly? we’ve got it allcovered
TextaQueen
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 […]
Grace Hu
Grace Hu is Chinese diasporic and based in Sydney. Her poetry has been published in Shot Glass Journal, Cordite Poetry Journal and Rabbit Annual. She short-listed the 2024 Woollahra Digital Literary Award. She co-wrote Chain Play and Serpent Secrets for Slanted Theatre. Chinoiserie “It’s Nietzschean slave morality, satisfaction is enough. It meets […]
Angelina Xu
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
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 […]
Reviews & Essays


Alison Stoddart reviews Salsa in the Suburbs by Alejandra Martinez

Brian Obiri-Asare reviews Two Hundred Million Musketeers by Ender Başkan
Fergus Edwards reviews Astraea by Kate Kruimink
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon reviews Kaya Ortiz and Bron Bateman

Martin Edmond reviews mō taku tama by Vaughan Rapatahana
Michael Griffiths reviews A Savage Turn by Luke Patterson

Kaya Wilson reviews Worthy of the Event by Vivian Blaxell

Angela Costi reviews Gold Digger by Lisa Collyer

Nina Culley reviews The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana
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