Category: Issue Seven Contributor

Jayne Fenton Keane has been extensively published in print, radio, digital, performance, sound and visual mediums. Her published poetry collections include ‘Torn’, ‘Ophelia’s Codpiece’ and ‘The Transparent Lung’. Jayne’s practice reflects an ongoing interest in exploring and experimenting with language. She was shortlisted for the Griffith University Medal for her doctorate in poetics

Stuart Barnes was born and grew up in Hobart and lived in Melbourne for seventeen years before moving to Rockhampton. His first poetry collection, Glasshouses (UQP), won the Thomas Shapcott Prize, was commended for the Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award. Stuart was poetry editor of Tincture Journal, served on the advisory board of Bent…

Julie Fredericks lives in Sydney.  After a long hiatus she has returned to writing poetry and is a very happy “apprentice” of the North Shore Poetry Project. Her work is inspired by life’s experiences and observations.  Poetry, painting and photography provide a source of reflection, contemplation and joy.

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro is the author ofMiriam the Medium(Simon & Schuster, 2004). Her essays, poetry, short stories have been published in such magazines asThe New York Times (Lives), Moment, Iowa Review, Peregrine, Empty Mirror,and more. She teaches writing at UCLA Extension.rochellejewelshapiro.com@rjshapiro

Rose Lucas is a Melbourne poet. Her first collection, Even in the Dark (UWAP) won the Mary Gilmore Prize. Her second collection, Unexpected Clearingwas also published by UWAP in 2016. She is currently completing her third collection, This Shuttered Eye. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Graduate Research at Victoria University.

Charles Murray, born Dublin, Ireland 1940, migrated to Australia in 1963 with the intention of working in the teaching profession however fate and circumstance led to a career in the Civil, Marine and Defence engineering industries in which he is still involved as a consultant. A member of North Shore Poetry Project, he has been dedicated to creative writing…

Magi Gibson has held three Scottish Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowships and one Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellowship with the University of Paisley. She was the first Makar (Poet Laureate) of the City of Stirling in 500 years. She was Writer in Residence with the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow and Reader in Residence…

Jenny Blackford lives in Newcastle, Australia. Her poems and stories have appeared in Australian Poetry Journal, Westerly, Going Down Swinging and Cosmos.  Her poetry prizes include first place in the Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Poetry 2017, the Connemara Mussel Festival Poetry Competition 2016 and the Humorous Verse section of the  Henry Lawson awards in 2014 and 2017, and third in…

Magdalena Ball is a novelist, poet, reviewer and interviewer, and is the managing editor of Compulsive Reader, a well-respected book review site that is now in its nineteenth year. She is the author of two novels and three poetry books, the most recent of which, High Wire Step, was published in 2018 by Flying Island Press.…

Melinda Smith is the author of six poetry books, most recently Goodbye, Cruel(Pitt St Poetry, 2017) and the poetry + art chapbookMembers Only(Recent Work Press, 2017). Her work has been anthologised widely and translated into multiple languages. Her previous book, Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call, won the 2014 Australian Prime Minister’s…

Audrey Molloy is an emerging Irish poet living in Sydney. Her poetry has appeared in The North, Magma, The Moth, Meanjin, Cordite, Overland and The Irish Times. Audrey received the Hennessy Award for Emerging Poetry and was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2019.

Amanda Bell is a Dublin-based writer and editor. Her books include The loneliness of the sasquatch – from the Irish of Gabriel Rosenstock (Alba, 2018), First the Feathers (Doire, 2017), The Lost Library Book (Onslaught, 2017), and Undercurrents (Alba, 2016). She is the editor of The Lion Tamer Dreams of Office Work: An Anthology of…