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 […]

Lieu Chi Nguyen is a Vietnamese Australian emerging writer and scholar residing on Yirrganydji Country. She has been a member of Sweatshop Literacy Movement since 2017. Her short fiction and non-fiction have been published in SBS Voices, Kill Your Darlings and various anthologies, namely This Little Red Thing (Sweatshop 2019), Sweatshop Women (Sweatshop 2019 and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Vek Lewis is a writer of Anglo-Indian heritage who grew up in Goolamrup, Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar, in Armadale-Kelmscott, an outer suburb of Perth, Western Australia. She currently lives on Gadigal Country in Sydney. Lewis has published poems and short stories in Cordite Poetry Review, Meniscus Literary Review, and has work forthcoming in Westerly.   Real […]

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