Sujatha Fernandes is a fiction writer, essayist, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney. She is the author of six books and her recent essays on the natural world and climate change have appeared in Orion Magazine and Aster(ix). She is currently completing a novel, Beyond the Monsoon Mountains. Her new project is […]

Uthpala Gunethilake is an emerging writer who grew up in a seaside town south of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and has lived in Sydney since 2001. She has been a journalist, publicist, book editor, digital copywriter and now works in the public service. Her most recent published work is an essay celebrating suburban gum trees, included […]

Zohra Aly lives in Sydney on Dharug land. She worked as a hospital pharmacist for several years before becoming a freelance writer. Her features have been published in Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Life, MiNDFOOD and Helix. Zohra has an MA in Creative Writing from UTS. Her essays have appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin and Island. Her short […]

Jill has continually written and drawn since first able to hold a pencil or a Kodak Brownie camera as a child in New Zealand. Later as a freelance photographer she combined mediums with work often exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions. An official Poet in Residence at RPA Hospital Sydney in 2018, Jill wrote […]

Greg Page is a Koori Poet from the La Perouse community of Kamay (Botany Bay). He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from U.T.S. in Sydney and has been published in the Australian Poetry Journal, Mascara Literary Review, Overland and the Koori Mail. He lives on unceded Bidjigal land.

Joana Tumpalan was born in the Philippines and aspires to be a published author inspiring readers along the way. She has a postgraduate degree of M.A. in Creative Writing from University of Technology Sydney and is currently studying M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing at Western Sydney University. Her Poets at Petersham Bowlo anthology poems are […]

She may call herself the trigger warning walking, but Rosie Bogumil writes unapologetically about mental illness. She received the Randolph Stow Young Writers Award six consecutive times, and she has also won the National Campus Writing Competition for non-fiction. Rosie is fascinated by the interplay between page and stage – so much so, that she […]

Mark has self-published two books of poetry, Mercurial Meanderings and Iconoclastic Journeys, as well as editing the anthologies A Square Circle and Poetsconsortorium: Poets at the Petersham Bowlo. He regularly presents his poetry at a range of Sydney venues, as well as co-convening Poets at the Petersham Bowlo open mic soiree. Mark has consistently been […]

Tina Huang is a Chinese Australian writer based in Sydney on Wangal land. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review, Overland, and Peril. Tina is also a performance poet and was a 2021 NSW State Finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam. In addition to […]