supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
Pat Saunders is from Perth, Western Australia and is a runner-up in this year’s Sejong International Sijo Competition. Her poetry appears in Verge and redrosethorns. Her short fiction features in the recently released anthologies The Heart Will Find A Way,…
Louise Hopewell is a Naarm/Melbourne-based poet, playwright and songwriter. Louise is a proud member of the Fringe Myrtles haiku group and her haiku awards include first place in the inaugural John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku, 2020. When not writing,…
by Rodney Williams ‘I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be’ – T.S. Eliot, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ It’s not my place to invent soliloquy Outside lines in a script, I don’t improvise Beneath stage lights I’m given…
Meg McNena migrated to Australia with Irish parents. The Australian, Quadrant, Antipodes and other journals have published her poetry, and seven of her plays have been staged.
Allan Padgett lives in Perth, on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. He had numerous roles in land management, especially with First Nations People. Allan has had many poems published, with Lumbering Towards Infinity his one and only book. He communes with nature…
by Doné de Beer In the crevice of my boot soles still lies dirt from the Blue Mountains we trekked last winter. I keep finding traces of you, even when I’ve scrubbed the wound raw. I can still taste the…
Doné de Beer is a Namibian born writer living in Melbourne. She is a writer of many forms, dabbling in screenplays, poetry and novels. She has completed her BA in Communication (Media) and works as a copywriter at a plant…
by Peter Roberts The initial shock is palpable – my feet like cowards wanting to run, yet in a minute, maybe two, they seem to meld with it and wake fully for the first time in a very long time.…
Wayne Pollard has published three zines. He organised poetry readings for five years in West Gippsland, Victoria, as convenor of the Demented Echidnas Poetry Collective. He has also been a member of the Time to Write group, through the Baw…
Les Wicks has been published across 39 countries in 17 languages. His 15th book of poetry is Time Taken – New & Selected (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022). He can be found at leswicks.tripod.com