Nicholas Bennett is passionate about physics and the natural universe. For Nick, The Dying Alchemists, is an attempt to collate some of the knowledge humans have acquired over the last several thousand years and place it alongside lines of intriguing thought.
Liam is a lawyer, writer and poet based in Perth and Hong Kong. His debut poetry collection A Gateway Has Opened was published in 2021 by Proverse Hong Kong with the support of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Lisa Collyer is an award-winning poet and educator living in Boorloo (Perth). Her debut poetry manuscript, How to Order Eggs Sunny Side Up, was short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award and will be published in September 2023 with Gazebo Books. She is a qualified and experienced educator in creating and delivering poetry workshops and has…
Natalie D-Napoleon is a writer, singer-songwriter and educator from Fremantle, Australia who is now completing a PhD in Creative Writing. She spent the last decade in the United States where she worked as a Coordinator at a City College Writing Centre. Her poetry and creative nonfiction has appeared in Meanjin, Southerly, Griffith Review, Australian Poetry…
Writer. Poet. Researcher. Convenor. Speaker. Carolyn Wadley Dowley is an award-winning Western Australian writer. She loves engaging with readers and writers; she has twenty-five years of speaking experience that includes everything from international and local writers' festivals and conferences to radio interviews, from hosting zoom poetry workshops with far-flung poets to visiting regional WA bookclubs.…
Elaine Forrestal is a writer, reviewer, blogger, mentor and public speaker. She has novels, picture books, short story anthologies, historical fiction and magazine articles, and one poem, published around the world in English, Italian and Slovenian. She is also an experienced judge of writing competitions. Elaine lives in Scarborough, Western Australia, and walks on the…
Alan Fyfe is a Jewish Australian author from Boorloo, the unceded country of the Noongar nation. His poetry and prose fiction has received recognition with a number of awards and listings in Australia and internationally. He is the author of a novel, T (Transit Lounge 2022), and a poetry collection, G-d, Sleep, and Chaos (forthcoming,…
Vivienne is a Western Australian writer and performer, working in poetry, fiction, performance and spoken word. She is most inspired by the big questions of the day and the small moments that link us all. She’s at her most creative when blending music, sound, text, light and movement in live performance. Vivienne enjoys chairing sessions…
Kerry is an award-winning poet and writer based in Perth. Her work explores the reality of women's lives—the parts that are often whitewashed in mainstream media. As a widow and solo parent, Kerry has a particular interest in writing about grief, and what comes after the shock of loss. She is in her final year…
Helen Hagemann writes poetry and fiction. Her work is published in Australian literary journals, including Southerly, Westerly, Overland, Cordite & Famous Reporter. Her poetry is published online, internationally in a Chinese publication, Ashbery Mode (Tinfish, Hawaii 2019), and her latest poetry can be found on Phillip Hall’s “Burrow” - an online journal. Two novels have…
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