Jeltje Fanoy has been involved with poetry and poetry small presses in Melbourne since the nineteen seventies. She’s been exploring Diaspora themes throughout her writing since the publication of her first collection Living in Aboriginal Australia in 1988. Her published work includes five collections of poetry.

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Lyn Chatham completed an MA in Writing and Literature at Deakin University in 2023. In 2022 her essay on keeping a writing notebook was published in Meanjin and her book reviews have been published in the ecojournal, Plumwood Mountain. In 2018 her poetry chapbook, Artisan, was published by Melbourne Poets Union, and in 2005 her memoir of a Winchelsea resident, Martino’s Story, was shortlisted in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.

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Owen Bullock’s latest poetry collection is Pancakes for Neptune (Recent Work Press, 2023), following three previous poetry titles, five books of haiku, a bilingual edition of tanka, and a novella. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Canberra. His other interests include music, juggling and chess.

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Maria Bonar writes poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, Creatrix, Catchment: Poetry of Place, Poetry d’Amour, Bronze Quill Winners Anthology, Stringybark Stories, BootsnAll, numerous anthologies and online publications. A former CEO, nurse, social health researcher and parole officer, she often travelled solo in rural and remote areas of Western Australia, which is reflected in her writing.

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Patricia Sykes is a poet and librettist. Her poems and collections have received various awards and have featured on the ABC’s Poetica and The Spirit of Things. Her collaborations with composer Liza Lim have been performed in Australia, Paris, Germany, Russia, New York and the UK. She was Asialink Writer in Residence Malaysia, 2006. A song cycle by Andrew Aronowicz, based on her poetry collection, The Abbotsford Mysteries, is available as podcast.

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Andrew is a Naarm/Melbourne poet who ruminates on politics, travel and the human condition. He published his first book of poetry, Soul Moves, in 2018 and has had poems published in a number of other magazines, anthologies and outlets including Blue Nib, Bowen Street Press, Pocketry, n SCRIBE and dSCRIBE. Andrew is occasionally active within the Spoken Word community in Melbourne.

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Isi Unikowski lives in Canberra, Australia. He has been widely published in Australia, including Best of Australian Poems 2022; while in the US his poems have been published in the Atlanta Review, Avalon Review, New York Quarterly, Poetica, Slate and Verse Wisconsin. His first collection, Kintsugi, was published in 2022 by Puncher & Wattman, New South Wales.

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