A Journal of Australian & International Cultural Reviews, News and Criticism.
Michael Leibowitz was born and educated in South Africa where he worked as a medical practitioner. He and his family emigrated first to New Zealand and then to Australia. Leibowitz started writing poetry during the Covid pandemic. He has published two books of poetry – Looking In and Wardrobe of Secrets. His work has also been published in various anthologies.
Hemat Malak is a poet from Sydney, Australia. She writes on diverse themes including motherhood, separation, nature and identity. Her works have been published or are forthcoming in Catchment Literary Journal, Quadrant Magazine, WestWords Living Stories, Writerly Magazine and elsewhere.
Ali Alizadeh is a writer who lives in Melbourne. He teaches at Monash University.
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Emma Lee’s publications include The Significance of a Dress (Arachne, 2020) and Ghosts in the Desert (IDP, 2015). She co-edited Over Land, Over Sea, (Five Leaves, 2015).
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).
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