supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
Pauline Cleary lives in regional Victoria and writes short fiction and poetry. In 2024, she has poems on the Australian Children’s Poetry site; New South Wales School Magazine; Poetica Christi Anthology. She has fiction in Short Stories Unlimited; Laura Literary…
Isi Unikowski lives on Ngunnawal country in Canberra, Australia. He has been widely published in Australia, including Best of Australian Poems 2022, and overseas. His first collection, Kintsugi, was published in 2022 by Puncher & Wattman, New South Wales, with…
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
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…
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.…
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…
Robbie Coburn is an Australian poet. His verse novel, The Foal in the Wire, will be published by Hachette Australia in 2025. Called ‘one of Australia’s most essential poets’ by ArtsHub and compared to Sylvia Plath in The Age, Robbie’s…
Gerry Jacobson lives in Ngunnawal/N’gambri country (Canberra). He writes tanka in cafes, on bush walks, and weeding the garden. He loves tanka prose and haibun and belongs to two supportive groups: Friday Writers and the Lyrebirds Tanka Circle. ‘Work’ was…
Wendy Beach is a poet living in Perth, WA on Whadjuk Noongar lands. She completed her MA at Curtin University. Her poems have appeared in Online in Westerly, Scope magazine, Creatrix and elsewhere. Her work has been published in the…
Marilyn Humbert lives on Darug and GuriNgai land in Berowra, NSW Australia. Her tanka and haiku appear in many international, Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions, published in anthologies, journals and…