supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
Jonathan Cant is a Sydney-based writer, poet and musician. He won the 2023 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards for Contemporary Poetry, was shortlisted in the 2025 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the 2023 Fish Poetry Prize. His poems have…
Glenn McPherson is a Sydney-based poet. He has been widely published in leading national and international journals and anthologies. Recent poems can be found in Modern Haiku, Catchment, InDaily, Eunoia Review and Antipodes.
Jo McInerney is an English and Literature teacher working in Gippsland. She has written haiku and tanka since 2007 and longer western forms since childhood. She has been published in Australia and overseas.
Gerard Lewis-Fitzgerald lives in Beaconsfield, Victoria. Retired, he amuses himself by writing poetry, performing in community theatre (having had two of his short plays performed at Gemco, Emerald). He is a member of Baw Baw Arts Alliance, participating in Poetry…
Bradlee Jennings was born in American Samoa, raised in Naarm. He’s interviewed Hakim Bellamy, Poet Laureate of Albuquerque. He has poetry in Backstory Journal. He has personal essays, listicles and reviews in SWINE Magazine, and a piece in the Village…
Jeannie Haughton began writing puppetry scripts, then studied writing, completing the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing. She continues to write for theatre, with many produced plays under her belt. Writing short stories, non-fiction pieces and long form poetry, Jeannie…
David Briese is a retired research scientist from Canberra. Since retiring, he and his wife have walked extensively in Australia and overseas. After a recent trip to Japan, he began to experiment with the different forms of Japanese poetry, basing…
Jo Whitelaw lives in Yinnar, Victoria, on Gunaikurnai land and has a passion for singing and song writing. She enjoys participating in the online poetry forum of Eclectic Creators Unite, both in online submissions and performance. Jo is looking forward…
Robyn Cairns resides in Naarm, Melbourne. She experiences great joy in the challenge and love of writing short-form poetry to express both her emotional and sensory connection to the world. Robyn has two chapbooks published by Ginninderra Press, as well…
Kim Waters lives in Melbourne. She has a Master of Arts in creative writing. Her poems have appeared in Cordite, The Australian, Going Down Swinging Online, Under the Radar and The Shanghai Literary Review.