Robbie Coburn is an Australian poet and author of the young adult verse novel The Foal in the Wire (Lothian/Hachette Australia, 2025). His poetry collections include Ghost Poetry (Upswell, 202), And I Could Not Have Hurt You (Kiddiepunk, 2023) and…
Alex Robertson lives Kaurna country (Adelaide, SA region). He has placed in local writing competitions & has been published in anthologies in the last 15 years. Alex participates in Gawler-based writing groups as an administrator and a free verse writer.…
Mike Greenacre’s latest collection of poetry, Nocturnal House, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2020. He was Equal First in the Creatrix Poetry Prize in 2016 and won First Prize in the Tom Collins Poetry Prize in 2019. He is…
Lila Jackson lives in Boorloo Boodjar (Perth) and writes free verse poetry on many topics including her experiences of travel. She is the winner of a year 12 PLC poetry prize for 2025. In addition to poetry, she enjoys discovering…
Halle West is a burgeoning poet, writing on Yuin country in the coastal village of Lake Conjola, NSW. Still a high school student, she has been previously published in the Write4Fun competition book, alongside participating in local Storyfest programs. Halle…
Kat Buttigieg is a writer from Gisborne on Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country. She is the editor of online magazine, Macedon Ranges Mumma, and the Gisborne Gazette Community Newspaper. Kat has won the Words in Winter Trentham poetry and short story prizes,…
Anne Zito is a Melbourne Poet and Writer. She pays her respects to the traditional owners of country, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. Anne writes poetry and short stories and is currently writing her first children’s novel. Her poems have been published…
Margaret (Margo) Owen Ruckert has poems published world-wide. Winner of the 2007 and 2023 National Poetry Competitions, hosted by Women Writers NSW. Two books ‘You Deserve Dessert’ and ‘musefood’, explore café culture, while other books match tanka to landscape photographs.…
Ayesha Hayes acknowledges the Ngunnawal and Nambri peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land she calls home, Canberra. She is a Pakistani-Australian in her second year of a Medical Science degree at ANU. She explores the intersections of culture,…
Helen McDonald lives in Woodend, Victoria and writes poetry on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Peoples. She is recently published in the US: failed haiku – a journal of English senryu, Drifting Sands…
