Category Bios

Jo Whitelaw lives in Yinnar, Victoria, on Gunaikurnai land. She enjoys singing and song writing. Having previously participated in the online poetry forum of Eclectic Creators Unite, she recently tiptoed into publicly performing some of her work. Jo is looking…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…