Category Bios

Kris Hemensley was the co-ordinator of Collected Works Bookshop (now Book Treehouse). His last book was Your Scratch Entourage (Cordite, 2016); plus a chapbook From the Blue Notebook (Now Orries Press, 2022). His ‘Topographies’ work is part of a larger…

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…

Andrew Hede is an emeritus professor living as a hermit in a retirement village adjacent to a national park on the outskirts of Sydney. He teaches and writes about stillness meditation. He has published haiku in three Australian anthologies and…

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…

Kevin Gillam is a West Australian poet with 4 books of poetry published, the most recent being the moon’s reminder, Ginninderra Press, 2018. He works as a cello teacher and freelance musician.

Jeremy Gadd is an Australian poet and author whose most recent publication was Driving Into the Dark, a selection of 60 previously published poems (Ginninderra Press, Adelaide, 2022). He has Master of Arts and PhD degrees from the University of…

Earl Livings is an award-winning poet and fiction writer widely published in Australia and overseas. His writing focuses on science, history, nature, mythology and the sacred. He has published two poetry collections and a fantasy verse novel. Earl lives in…

Julie Tawse lives in the Neerim District foothills. She is an ongoing poet and artist, and a retired educator. Her writings, poems and song lyrics have known publication and shortlisting. Close observation, place and identity are at the heart of…

Mitch Browne is a poet and bricklayer from the Blue Mountains. His work has been published in ZineWest, Quadrant, Grieve, JAMA, medmic, OfTheBook, The Sydney Morning Herald, and elsewhere. He won the ZineWest Best Poem award in 2023, and again…

Jan Napier is a Western Australian writer. Her poem ‘Early: A Morning’ won the 2023 KSP Poetry Prize. Jan lives with a cat and tries to grow poems green and graceful as her ferns.