Category: Issue Eight Contributors
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Helen Moore
Helen Moore is an award-winning British ecopoet and socially engaged artist based in Sydney. She has published three poetry collections, Hedge Fund, And Other Living Margins(Shearsman Books, 2012), ECOZOA (Permanent Publications, 2015), acclaimed by John Kinsella as “a milestone in the journey of ecopoetics”, and in 2019, The Mother Country (Awen Publications), exploring British colonial…
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Carly Rawson
Carly Rawson studies creative writing at Swinburne University. She loves literature, her small child, and the sea. She dreams of reconciling all three. Her writing has been published in The Big Issue and Chart Collective.
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Lauren O’Connell
Lauren O’Connell is an Irish-Australian emerging writer. She has a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing from Swinburne University and is currently completing the Diploma of the same qualification. She writes short stories and scripts, sometimes dabbling in larger narratives. She lives in Melbourne, Victoria with her beloved pot plants.
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Anthony Lawrence
Anthony Lawrence has published fifteen books of poetry and a novel. His books and individual poems have won a number of awards, most recently the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award (Poetry) for Headwaters(Pitt Street Poetry).101 Poems, a selection from previous books (Pitt Street Poetry) was published in 2018. His poetry has been translated into Italian,…
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Debbie Lim
Debbie Lim was born in Sydney. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including regularly in the Best Australian Poems series (Black Inc.), and Contemporary Australian Poetry and Contemporary Asian Australian Poets (both Puncher & Wattmann) as well as journals such as Cordite, Mascara, Island and Magma (UK). Her prizes include the Rosemary Dobson Award…
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Amirah Al Wassif
Amirah Al Wassif is a freelance writer, poet, and novelist. Five of her books were written in Arabic and many of her English works have been published in many international literary and cultural magazines around the globe, such as praxis Magazine , the gathering of tribes, credo Spoir, reach poetry, Otherwise Engaged literature and arts…
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Ian C. Smith
Ian C Smith’s work has appeared in, Amsterdam Quarterly, Australian Poetry Journal, Critical Survey, Live Encounters, Poetry New Zealand, Southerly, & Two-Thirds North. His seventh book is wonder sadness madness joy, Ginninderra (Port Adelaide). He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island, Tasmania.
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Angela T. Carr
Angela T. Carr is a poet, editor and creative writing facilitator. Her debut collection How to Lose Your Home & Save Your Life (Bradshaw Books, 2014), won the Cork Literary Review Poetry Manuscript Competition 2013. Poems from the collection have been broadcast on RTE’s Arena arts programme and displayed on the streets of Dublin in…
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Jill Jones
Jill Jones’ most recent books are Viva the Real(UQP), Brink(Five Islands Press), The Beautiful Anxiety(Puncher & Wattmann), which won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2015, and Breaking the Days(Whitmore Press), which was shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Her work is represented in a number of major anthologies including the Macquarie…
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Bernadette Gallagher
Bernadette Gallagher was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1959 and has been living in the countryside of Co. Cork since 1986. She worked as a project manager and IT specialist for many years. Her poems explore the nuances of memory and experience and have been published in Irish Examiner, Boyne Berries, ROPES, Stanzas, in the…
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Matthew M.C. Smith
Matthew M C Smith is a poet from Swansea, Wales. He is particularly interested in mythic, historic, cosmic and neo-romantic poetry. He edits Black Bough Poetry, a new platform for micro-poetry. He spent 5 years studying a PhD on Robert Graves’s The White Goddess. He is @MatthewMCSmith and @BlackBoughPoems www.blackboughpoetry.com
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Drucilla Wall
Drucilla Wall’s book of poetry is The Geese at the Gates, published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. Her co-edited collection, Thinking Continental: Essays and Poems of Place, explores ideas of place through poetry and essays, from University of Nebraska Press, 2017. Her newest book of poetry, The Irish Summers, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in…
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Anne Walsh
Anne Walsh has been shortlisted twice for both the ACU Prize in Literature and for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Cordite, Mascara, Canberra Times, Backstory Journal, Other Terrain Journal, Verity La, Poem and Dish, FemAsia, Not Very Quiet, HUSK Magazine, Glimmer Train (U.S.), and performed as part of the Monologue Adventure…
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K.S. Moore
K. S. Moore is a Welsh poet, based in Ireland. Her poetry has recently appeared in New Welsh Review, Anthropocene, Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet, Ink, Sweat and Tears, The Honest Ulsterman, Boyne Berries, The Lonely Crowd, The Stinging Fly and Southword. Work is upcoming in Atlanta Review. Shortlists have included: Trim Poetry Competition, Americymru West Coast…
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Nicki Bacon
Nicki Bacon is a 17-year-old literature student who loves partying, exercise and hanging out with mates. He’s training for a triathlon and does some acting when he gets casting roles.
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Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He has had eight books of poetry published and seven books as a translator. In 2017 his book Ghostspeakingwon the Kenneth Slessor Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the South Australian Premier’s Award. His latest collection is Enfolded in the Wings of a Great…
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Gale Acuff
Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in several countries and is the author of three books of poetry. He has taught university English in the US, China, and Palestine.
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Kate Harland
Kate’s adulthood has been a roller coaster ride. Quite some time ago, before taking on the care of her sister’s children and then taking on an old run down family sheep farm, Kate saw the publication of her work in an online journal, a film get short listed for Sundance film festival, and taught a…
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Hélène Cardona
Hélène Cardona, poet, actor and translator, is the author of six books, most recently the award-winning Dreaming My Animal Selvesand Life in Suspension,and the translations Birnam Wood (José Manuel Cardona), Winner of the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Book, Beyond Elsewhere(Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac), winner of a Hemingway Grant, Ce que nous portons (Dorianne Laux), and…
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Owen Bullock
Owen Bullock has published three collections of poetry, Sometimes the sky isn’t big enough (2010), Semi (2017) and Work & Play (2017); four books of haiku, Wild camomile (2009), Breakfast with epiphanies (2012), Urban Haiku (2015) and River’s Edge (2016), and the novella, A Cornish Story (2010). He currently teaches Creative Writing at the University…