Laniyuk was born of a French mother and a Larrakia, Kungarrakan and Gurindji father. Her poetry and short memoir often reflects the intersectionality of her cross-cultural and queer identity. She was fortunate enough to contribute to the book Colouring the Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans Perspective and won the Indigenous residency for Canberra’s Noted Writers…

Jane Harrison is descended from the Muruwari people and is an award-winning playwright and author. Her first play Stolen has played across Australia and internationally, touring again in 2018. Rainbow’s End had a new production at the Darlinghurst Theatre in 2019. It is currently on the NSW English curriculum and won the 2012 Drover Award….

Monica Jasmine Karo, a proud Gunai and Gunditjmara woman, is a Melbourne based poet, actor, singer-songwriter and emerging playwright. Having studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts she is continuously expanding on her artistry. Monica is a passionate young artist, currently working on her original play Mothers Country…

Claire G. Coleman is a Wirlomin Noongar woman whose Country is in South Coast Western Australia. Her novel Terra Nullius, won a Black&Write! Fellowship and a Norma K Hemming Award and has been shortlisted for the Stella Prize and an Aurealis Award. The Old Lie is her second novel.

Evelyn Araluen is a poet, educator and researcher working with Indigenous literatures at the University of Sydney. Her work has won the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship. Born, raised, and writing in Dharug country, she is a Bundjalung descendant.

From Samoa to South Africa, vandals to Vogue, quiz masters to Queens, grassroots to Gucci, primary schoolers, Pasifika leaders, to First U.S Black Presidents, New Zealand Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh takes poetry into un-poeted spaces to enrich people and their places. The impact of her work was recognised in the 2019 New Years Honours…

Nayuka is a Gunai, Gunditmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta writer. Nayuka’s writing spans social commentary on black, queer and feminist politics to television writing. They are a 2018 Next Chapter recipient and they are finishing their book of essays as part of this. They’re writing appears in Queerstories, Going Postal and the forthcoming Growing Up…

Bryan Andy is a Yorta Yorta man from Cummeragunja – an Aboriginal village on the Murray River. Bryan is a freelance writer, radio broadcaster and arts event producer. He is the current Convenor of OutBlack – an LGBTIQ social support and advocacy group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Victoria.

A Yanjunytjatjara poet, in 2013 Ali Cobby Eckermann won the Kenneth Slessor Prize and Book Of The Year (NSW) for Ruby Moonlight. In 2014 Ali attended the International Writing Program in Iowa City. In 2017 Ali received a Windham Campbell Award for Poetry from Yale University and was awarded a Literature Fellowship by the Australian…