supporting local Artists
supporting local Artists
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 ‘Topography’ work is part of a larger ongoing…
Megan Cartwright is a Canberra-based author and Literature teacher, living and working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country. Her poetry has featured in Contemporary Verse 2, Cordite Poetry Review and Island Magazine. She is the 2025 winner of the Tina Kane…
Maria Bonar’s writing has been published in Creatrix, Award Winning Australian Writing, Catchment – Poetry of Place, Rochford Street Review, Poetry d’Amour, BootsnAll, numerous anthologies and online publications. A former CEO, social health researcher and parole officer, often travelling solo…
by Laurie Keim Step quietly, listen, there at the edge of the page dark bottom of ocean, nozzle taken from your mouth and bubbles return skyward without any sound and soon nothing is anything else but silence. Don’t confuse manic…
Regina (Gina) lives in northwest country Tasmania, near the beach. Love, dreams and other disasters are explored. Writing and poetry is part of her daily arts practice, out of her studio by the creek. Gina is published in various short-form…
Madhuri Pillai discovered Haiku and related forms in 2011. Her work has been published in various local and international journals. She loves bush trekking and is passionate about animal welfare. Madhuri lives in Melbourne with her family.
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.
Nicoletta Glod is a Romanian-born author writing in English. A Project Engineer by profession, she began with fiction, then turned to poetry. Time is precious; sailing through life, she captures glimpses of eternity and preserves them in poems—like gems for…
Richard Clarke lives on Wallumettagal land in Sydney. He has had poetry published in Australia and the USA. He is currently attempting to complete his first collection, Photographic Memories.