A Feather Landing

Alisha Brown is a poet and musician born on Kamilaroi land. She won the 2022 Joyce Parkes Women’s Writing Prize, placed second in the 2021 Woorilla Poetry Prize, and was Highly Commended for the 2024 South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Award. She is currently an Editorial Intern for Red Room Poetry. You can find her work in Westerly, Griffith Review, Cordite, the Australian Poetry Anthology, Glassworks, Humana Obscura, and Blue Bottle Journal, among others.

Joe Bugden holds a BA from University of Sydney and a Master of Letters from UNE. He has written the libretti and composed the music for two chamber operas; ‘Death by Defenestration’, and ‘The Call of Aurora’, (based on the Antarctic explorer, Douglas Mawson). ‘Incidental Dreams from a Myoclonic Jerk’ which is published by Ginninderra Press is Joe’s first published collection of short stories. In July Joe was artist in residence through the La Baldi Foundation, in Montegiovi, Tuscany, working on the libretto for an opera based on the life of the Italian renaissance mathematician, Luca Pacioli.

Phoebe Lupton is an Anglo-Celtic/Sinhalese writer, arts worker and access consultant, based in Canberra/Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands.

Saanjana Kapoor is a recent Bachelor of Arts graduate from the University of Melbourne. Her writing has been published in Voiceworks, Island, Cordite, Meanjin, and more. She is currently a participant in Express Media’s Toolkits: Fiction, and a recipient of a New Colombo Plan Scholarship by the Australian Government.

Chloe Mayne is a poet whose work moves in the realms of mothering, decoloniality and ecology. She is writing a creative doctorate at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and is a current recipient of the Marten Bequest for poetry. As a descendant of the Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania, connection to place and exploration of identity are important roots of her expression.

Sophie Lane is a Sydney based artist and illustrator working on Gadigal and Wangal land. In taking a fragmented approach to personal narratives, her drawing and painting practice considers the intimate subjectivity of autobiographical storytelling. Landscapes of connection, solitude, mundanity, chronic illness, desire and gendered experience are broken up with visual and anecdotal negative space into which other possible understandings can be imagined. This process of disrupting traditional narrative structures allows the artist to offer up an introspective body of work; the hesitant vulnerability of a story only partially told.