A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
Marie McMillan alleges her only brush with fame is that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s father signed her ALSMD parchment. Born and educated in Dublin, she has degrees Arts and Social Science from UCD and a Master’s in Creative Writing (Golden Key awardee) from UTS. The Lost Day – Under Newgrange, her fictitious crime fiction novel was published by Europe Books in 2020.
Shyamal is a creative with a passion for playing with words, narratology, and postmodern writing. She is acutely sensitive to form and loves experimenting with concrete poetry. She has had several poems published in anthologies in Australia and the U.S. She is currently working on her debut novel.
Susan Hawthorne is a poet, novelist and publisher who lives and works on Djiru Country in Far North Queensland. Her most recent books are the novel Dark Matters and the poetry collection The Sacking of the Muses. Her book Cow was shortlisted for the Audre Lorde Poetry Prize and the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize.
Irina Frolova is a Russian-Australian writer who lives on Awabakal Country. Irina’s creative highlights include her poetry collection Far and Wild (Flying Islands, 2021), the second prize in the 2021 Deborah Cass Prize for writing, and a longlisting in the 2023 University of Canberra VC International Poetry Prize.
Denise O’Hagan is a Sydney-based editor and poet, born in Italy, with a background in academic book publishing. Former poetry editor with Irish literary journal, The Blue Nib, her work is widely published and awarded. Her poetry collection Anamnesis (Recent Work Press) was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Award (USA) and the Eyelands Book Award (Greece) and shortlisted in the Rubery Book Award (UK).
Eoin Flannery is a Professor of Irish Literature based in Limerick, Ireland. He has published 12 books of literary criticism on modern and contemporary Irish fiction and poetry, with a special interest in environmentalism. He is currently preparing a collection of poetry entitled, ‘Unshadow’.
Rose Hunter is the author of several books of poetry including Body Shell Girl (Spinifex Press, 2022) and glass (Five Islands Press, 2017). She has been widely published in literary journals in Australia, the USA, and Canada, and she has been published at the ABC and a guest on the ABC’s Radio National. Rose was born in Australia and lived in Canada for ten years, then Mexico for ten more. She currently lives in Brisbane/Meanjin.
Janis La Couvée (she/her) is a writer and poet with a love of wild green spaces, dedicated to conservation efforts in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada —home since time immemorial to the Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ people. Words in Pure Slush, Counterflow 3 (Wordstorm Society of the Arts), Jake the Anti-Literary Magazine, Splendor of Wings (League of Canadian Poets chapbook), Litmora Literary Magazine, among others.
Alex Skovron is the author of seven collections of poetry, a prose novella, The Poet (2005), and a book of short stories, The Man who Took to his Bed (2017). His volume of new and selected poems, Towards the Equator (2014), was shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. His work has been translated into a number of languages, and he has co-authored book-length translations of two Czech poets: Jiří Orten and Vladimír Holan. His most recent book of poetry is Letters from the Periphery (2021). A new collection of short narratives in prose and verse is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann. He was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award for achievements in poetry and prose and his lifelong support for writers and writing in Melbourne and beyond.
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