
Angela Costi
Angela Costi’s poetry collections include Honey & Salt, An Embroidery of Old Maps and New, and The Heart of the Advocate. Her chapbook, Adversarial Practice, published by Cordite was commended in the Wesley Michel Wright Prize 2024. She won the University of Canberra’s Health Poetry Prize 2024 and the Katherine Sussanah Prichard (KSP) Poetry Prize 2022. She is […]
Talib Dostizada
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 […]
Brenda Saunders
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 […]
Isabelle Li translates Michelle Cahill
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 […]
Sushma Joshi
Sushma Joshi is a writer and filmmaker from Nepal. She has written two books of short stories. The End of the World was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award. She has a BA in International Relations from Brown University and an MA in English Literature from Middlebury College (USA) She is currently working […]
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. […]
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 […]
Reviews & Essays

Michael Griffiths reviews A Savage Turn by Luke Patterson

Raidah Shah Idil reviews The Northern Tomb by Isabelle Li

Angela Costi reviews Gold Digger by Lisa Collyer

Katarina Djeric reviews Frogsong by Melissa Manning

Nina Culley reviews Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts

Debbie Lim reviews The Strange Matter by Ali Jane Smith

Bec Kavanagh reviews The Endling by Keely Jobe
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