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.

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Edward Caruso is based in Naarm, Australia. Recently, he has been published in A Voz Limpia, Live Encounters, TEXT, Unusual Work and Well-Known Corners: Poetry on the Move. His second collection of poems, Blue Milonga, was published by Hybrid Publishers in January 2019. In August 2019 he featured on Radio 3CR’s Spoken Word program. In 2024, he co-judged the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize.

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Carl Walsh is a neurodiverse poet who lives and writes in Melbourne on Wurundjeri land. His poetry has appeared in StylusLit, Meanjin, Rabbit, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Shearsman Magazine, Echidna Tracks, Westerly and Jacaranda (amongst others). His first book of poetry, Tarp Green Light has just been published through Flying Islands.

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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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