Issue Eight Contributor • Past Contributors
December 1, 2019
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 (aka Kristen Davis) is a Melbourne writer who has published poetry in a range of publications including Pink Cover Zine,...
Debbie Lim was born in Sydney. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including regularly in the Best Australian Poems...
Daragh Byrne writes informed by his background in physics, a dedicated mindfulness practice and a career building technology....
Issue Eight Contributor • Issue Eight Fiction. • Past Contributors
Mori Shige (1880-1938) was a university-educated, headstrong feminist writer from Tokyo, Japan, who wrote over 20 novels. She was disowned...
Anthony Lawrence has published fifteen books of poetry and a novel. His books and individual poems have won a number of awards, most...
Les Wicks achieved the rank of Assistant Station Master in the the 1980s . He qualified in basic accounting, signal box operation,...
JW Burns lives in Florida. Recent publications in Rialto, Adelaide, Menacing Hedge and The Squawk Back....
Bernadette Gallagher was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1959 and has been living in the countryside of Co. Cork since 1986. She worked...
2019 HNSA Short Story Contest • Past Contributors
Attending both Sydney and Wollongong Universities, Dr Brand has three degrees in education and taught in state high schools. She was...
Anna Forsyth is an editor, poet and event manager. In 2014, she founded Girls on Key, a feminist poetry organisation, that now hosts...
Matthew M C Smith is a poet from Swansea, Wales. He is particularly interested in mythic, historic, cosmic and neo-romantic poetry....
Drucilla Wall’s book of poetry is The Geese at the Gates, published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. Her co-edited collection, Thinking...
Robyn Rowland is Irish-Australian who has been living in both Connemara and Australia. She regularly works in Turkey. She has 15 books, 12...
Lauren O’Connell is an Irish-Australian emerging writer. She has a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing from Swinburne...
Eden van Leeuwen is an amateur writer for 19 years. Creating wonderful worlds in her words and sharing them with others, she hopes to...
Issue Seven Contributor • Past Contributors
June 18, 2019
Gary McCartney is a designer, artist and writer originally from Northern Ireland. His company, McCartney Design, has won several Australian...
Brittney Alexander is currently studying professional writing and editing at Swinburne University. In her spare time, she enjoys reading...
June 17, 2019
Stuart Barnes was born and grew up in Hobart and lived in Melbourne for seventeen years before moving to Rockhampton. His first poetry...
Amanda Bell is a Dublin-based writer and editor. Her books include The loneliness of the sasquatch – from the Irish of Gabriel Rosenstock...
June 16, 2019
Audrey Molloy is an emerging Irish poet living in Sydney. Her poetry has appeared in The North, Magma, The Moth, Meanjin, Cordite, Overland...
In 2018, Mari read at the Strokestown International Poetry Festival and at the Irish Writers Centre International Women’s Day 2018-2019....
Gareth lives in Sydney with his wife and daughter. He has taught poetry and poetics in schools, youth centres, universities, libraries and...
Caitlin Bowen is currently in her third year at Swinburne University, studying both a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Arts....
Guest reflection • Past Contributors
Tom is an award-winning campaigner, writer and communications professional, community development and advocacy strategist with a background...
Moya Roddy’s novel The Long Way Home was described in the Irish Times as “simply brilliant”. Her collection of short stories Other...
Poorly navigating the internet one LiveLeak video at a time, Laura Wild is an Australian writer currently studying at Swinburne University...
Mark Mulholland was born and raised in Ireland, and when fifteen underwent a stroke of genius and left schooling to linger around a...
Michele Seminara is a poet, editor and yoga teacher. After studying English and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, she...
Karen Lethlean is a retired English teacher. With fiction which has appeared in the Barbaric Yawp, Ken*Again, Pendulum Papers and has won a...