supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
Tony Steven Williams is a Canberra poet, short-fiction author and occasional songwriter. Both light-hearted and gloomy themes inhabit his work; however, the environment and the human condition are particularly important to him. Tony has two poetry collections (Ginninderra Press): Sun and Moon,…
Rodney Williams — contributing editor at Catchment — convenes Time to Write for Baw Baw Arts Alliance. Based on Gunaikurnai country, within Gippsland, Victoria, he has had poetry published internationally in Western free verse and Japanese forms. Released through Ginninderra…
Lyndal Turner was born and raised in Gippsland, Victoria. After sampling life in the city and overseas, she returned to Gippsland to make great memories with and for her own young children. Work by this poet
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…
Yvette Stubbs is an award-winning published poet and a well-respected matriarch of the Melbourne poetry scene, renowned from La Mama Poetica, to Passionate Tongues, to the Dan O’Connell. After four appearances in 2019 at Scotland’s Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival in…
Pat Saunders is from Perth, Western Australia. She has 26 years’ experience in the Perth film and television industry, including 15 at the ABC. She was a joint winner of the 2023 Victoria Park Local History Awards (Poetry or Performance…
Janeen Samuel lives in South-West Victoria, surrounded by sheep and slumbering volcanoes. Her poems and short fiction have been published in various magazines and anthologies, while her half-finished novels sit unpublished in drawers and on laptops. Her passions are walking…
Margaret Owen Ruckert is the 2023 Society of Women Writers National Writing Competition winner for poetry. Two books, You Deserve Dessert and musefood (an IP Book of the Year), explore café culture (www.ipoz.biz). Her latest book is tanka: Sky on Sea. As Facilitator of Discovery Writers…
Kent Robinson lives in Bathurst NSW and is a poet in Japanese genres. His work is featured in print publications in Australia, including Eucalypt: he formed part of a group of poets who collaborated with Beverley George with rengay in…
Peter Roberts is an Australian poet who resides in Melbourne. He enjoys poetry that bounces and surprises, and that most of all is accessible. Peter has been published in a range of national and international journals, most recently W-Poesis and The Beatnik Cowboy. He…