Closing Night: Blue Hour Litfair

Jax Bulstrode is a queer disabled writer and poet. They have been published in Voiceworks, Cordite, Fashion Journal Magazine, and Australian Poetry Anthology. Their debut poetry collection ‘cul de sac rabbits’ was published with revolutionaries press in 2024.

Michael Dulaney is a journalist and writer whose work focuses on humanity’s links with the rest of non-human nature in the climate crisis. His science and nature writing has been published by The Monthly, Literary Hub, The Big Issue, and the BBC, among others. In 2024 he was a Climate Futures Artist fellow with the […]

M. Aan Mansyur is a writer who is also the director of the Makassar International Writers Festival. Some of his books include Melihat Api Bekerja (2015), Tidak Ada New York Hari Ini (2016), Waktu yang Tepat untuk Melupakan Waktu (2021), and Bahasa Pohon-Pohon Tumbang (2025). His poetry book, Mengapa Luka Tidak Memaafkan Pisau (2020), received the Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2021 and the Kemendikbudristek Literary Award 2021.

S.D Munawara is an emerging writer and a student of literature living in Melbourne. She was most recently shortlisted for the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, and is currently writing a short story collection.

Coco Stallman is a writer, painter, and arts facilitator living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people. She is a winner of the Ultimo Prize for Poetry (2021), runner-up for the KYD Creative Nonfiction essay prize (2023) and placed second in the AAWP Express Media Sudden Writing Prize (2023). Currently, she is a […]