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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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  

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 […]

Zoleikha Baloch is a Baloch writer based in Iran. She writes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction centered on women’s lives, memory, and resilience in Balochistan. Her work has appeared in seven international literary journals, including Solarpunk Magazine, Sky Island Journal, Chestnut Review, and belladonna’s garden. Through her writing, she seeks to bring Baloch voices and […]

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 […]

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 […]