Issue Eight Contributor

Jas Rose

Jas Rose has completed her Bachelor in Film and Digital Media and is currently working on her Master of Writing with Swinburne University....

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Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He has had eight books of poetry published and seven books as a translator. In...

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Lou Greene

Lou Greene has spent most of her life trotting the globe: Fiji-born, Lou has also lived in Kiribati, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Sulawesi, Germany,...

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Marilyn Humbert

Marilyn Humbert lives in the Northern suburbs of Sydney NSW surrounded by bush.  Marilyn is leader of Bottlebrush Tanka Group, and member...

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Ian C. Smith

Ian C Smith writes in the Gippsland Lakes region of Victoria, and on Flinders Island, Tasmania. His work has appeared in Antipodes,...

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Owen Bullock

  Owen Bullock has published three collections of poetry, Sometimes the sky isn’t big enough (2010), Semi (2017) and Work & Play...

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Julie Parry

Julie lives in Sydney and is currently studying for her Masters in Writing at Swinburne. She left a corporate career in Human Resources to...

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Liana Joy Christensen

  Liana Joy Christensen writes and publishes in several genres. She is the author of Deadly Beautiful – Vanishing Killers of the...

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Eamonn Wall

  Eamonn Wall is the author of Junction City: New and Selected Poems 1990-2015 (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2015), Sailing Lake Mareotis...

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Jill Jones

  Jill Jones’ most recent books are Viva the Real (UQP), Brink (Five Islands Press), The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann),...

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Anne Walsh

  Anne Walsh has been shortlisted twice for both the ACU Prize in Literature and for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared...

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Hélène Cardona

  Hélène Cardona, poet, actor and translator, is the author of six books, most recently the award-winning Dreaming My Animal Selves...

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Angela T. Carr

  Angela T. Carr is a poet, editor and creative writing facilitator. Her debut collection How to Lose Your Home & Save Your Life...

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Devika Brendon

Devika Brendon is a teacher, editor, reviewer and writer of English Literature. Her poetry, short stories, and reviews have been widely...

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Sandra Renew

  Sandra Renew was a featured poet for a third year at the National Folk Festival 2019. Her poetry includes a range of critique and...

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Marissa Skeels

Marissa Skeels is a Melbourne-based editor and translator who has lived in Fukushima, Kyoto, and Tokyo. Her translations have appeared in...

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Kristen de Kline

Kristen de Kline (aka Kristen Davis) is a Melbourne writer who has published poetry in a range of publications including Pink Cover Zine,...

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Debbie Lim

  Debbie Lim was born in Sydney. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including regularly in the Best Australian Poems...

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Daragh Byrne

  Daragh Byrne writes informed by his background in physics, a dedicated mindfulness practice and a career building technology....

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Mori Shige

Mori Shige (1880-1938) was a university-educated, headstrong feminist writer from Tokyo, Japan, who wrote over 20 novels. She was disowned...

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Anthony Lawrence

  Anthony Lawrence has published fifteen books of poetry and a novel. His books and individual poems have won a number of awards, most...

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Bernadette Gallagher

  Bernadette Gallagher was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1959 and has been living in the countryside of Co. Cork since 1986. She worked...

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Les Wicks

  Les Wicks achieved the rank of Assistant Station Master in the the 1980s . He qualified in basic accounting, signal box operation,...

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J.W. Burns

  JW Burns lives in Florida. Recent publications in Rialto, Adelaide, Menacing Hedge and The Squawk Back....

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Anna Forsyth

  Anna Forsyth is an editor, poet and event manager. In 2014, she founded Girls on Key, a feminist poetry organisation, that now hosts...

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Matthew M.C. Smith

  Matthew M C Smith is a poet from Swansea, Wales. He is particularly interested in mythic, historic, cosmic and neo-romantic poetry....

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Drucilla Wall

  Drucilla Wall’s book of poetry is The Geese at the Gates, published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. Her co-edited collection, Thinking...

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Robyn Rowland

Robyn Rowland is Irish-Australian who has been living in both Connemara and Australia. She regularly works in Turkey. She has 15 books, 12...

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Lauren O’Connell

Lauren O’Connell is an Irish-Australian emerging writer. She has a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing from Swinburne...

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Eden van Leeuwen

Eden van Leeuwen is an amateur writer for 19 years. Creating wonderful worlds in her words and sharing them with others, she hopes to...

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