Past Contributors

David Atkinson

David Atkinson is a Sydney-based poet who grew up in rural New South Wales. His poems have been published widely in magazines and...

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Magdalena Ball

Magdalena Ball is a novelist, poet, reviewer, interviewer, and is Managing Editor of Compulsive Reader.  She is the author of several...

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Mary Chydiriotis

Mary Chydiriotis lives in Melbourne. She is passionate about coffee, dogs, books and social justice. Her poems have been published in local...

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Bella Bevan

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Holly Erin Jane

Holly Erin Jane is a Naarm (Melbourne) based writing student at Swinburne University. Focusing on under-heard voices and personal stories,...

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Sam Johnston

Sam Johnston is a Melbourne-based writer and currently a student studying Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University. He...

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Patrick Petraitis

Patrick is currently studying a diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at Swinburne University and plans to continue his education. He...

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Michelle Freckleton

Michelle is from Melbourne. She is a full-time mum who is currently studying a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing. Michelle has...

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Carly Waller

Carly Waller is a student from Melbourne. She has a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing from Victoria University and is...

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The Issue Ten Team

Editorial Editor – Holly Erin Jane Editorial submissions manager – Carly Waller Editorial manager – Ellen Lewis Editorial...

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Hugh McMillan

Hugh McMillan is a well published and award winning poet from south west Scotland. You can find out more on his website here:...

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James Walton

James Walton was a librarian, a farm labourer, and mostly a public sector union official. He is published in many anthologies, journals,...

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Rue Baldry

Rue Baldry lives in Yorkshire, Great Britain. Her short stories have been published in journals such as Litro, MIR Online, Postbox, Ambit,...

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Chris Armstrong

Chris Armstrong is a writer whose poetry has appeared in Australian literary journals including Griffith Review, Cordite, Overland,...

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Angela Costi

A Melbourne-based poet with a long history of working in the social justice sector and also as a freelance community writer....

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Edna Heled

Edna Heled is an artist, art therapist, counsellor and travel journalist living in New Zealand. Her writing includes short stories, poetry,...

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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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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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Christina King

Christina King is an historical fiction writer and freelance copywriter, with a love of Australian colonial history and the history of the...

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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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