Vincent regularly performs at and assists in the running of poetry events around the Northern Rivers and Southern Queensland, Australia. He has won People’s Choice Award at the Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup [[2016, 2019] and been a finalist 2022, 2023, 2024, Vincent has been a NSW Finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam many times.
The second edition of his first book ‘SIMPLE POEMS FOR COMPLEX PEOPLE-VOLUME ONE’ has just been released on Amazon.
Maria is a retired High School teacher, environmentalist and botanical author. She is a Life Member of the Australian Plants Society, former leader of the ANPSA Correa Study Group, Waratah & Flannel Flower Study Group, Save our Flora and holds the National Correa Collection in her private botanic garden. She is a regular ABC New England North West Radio Garden presenter.
Dimitri is a British-Australian writer. He was born in England in 1970. A Placeless Sun: Toward Our Configured Destiny is his debut novel and was a labour of spiritual and literary love. He is currently a full-time writer and working on his second novel, The Illiterate Sky.
Sarah Daley is a social worker and play therapist living on Bundjalung land. She provides psychotherapy to foster healing through play and creativity for children and youth. Sarah has facilitated community publishing projects through the Gugin Gudduba Local Aboriginal Land Council in Kyogle, and in Melbourne and Timor-Leste. Sarah believes in the power of storytelling to build hope and resilience.
Rosemary Nissen-Wade’s work has appeared in paper and digital journals, anthologies, and her own volumes. In the past she was involved in Melbourne Poets Union, poetry workshops in Pentridge Prison, and Word of Mouth Poetry Theatre. She has run workshops in TAFE and tertiary colleges and Neighbourhood Centres. Resident in Northern Rivers for the past 30 years, she now combines poetry and memoir.
Siang Lu is the author of Ghost Cities and the multi-award-winning The Whitewash, which won Audiobook of the Year at the 2023 ABIAs and the Glendower Award for an emerging writer at the Queensland Literary Awards. He was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 Asian-Australians in 2023.
Sue is a Greens MP in the NSW Upper House and an environmental law expert. Her work protecting the environment began decades ago in the old growth forests of Northeast NSW as a frontline activist. She’s also a farmer and grows dryland rice and is expanding koala habitat on her farm on the Richmond Floodplain.
Tim Baker is an award-winning journalist and storyteller specialising in surfing history and culture and the best-selling author of numerous books on surfing. His latest book Patting The Shark documents his journey managing a stage 4, prostate cancer diagnosis. Tim wrote Patting The Shark as part of a creative writing PhD scholarship from Griffith University. He is a former editor of Tracks, Surfing Life and Slow Living magazines, and a two-time winner of the Surfing Australia Hall of Fame Culture Award. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Sunday Age, the Bulletin, Inside Sport, GQ, Text Journal as well as surfing magazines around the world. In July 2015, Tim was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer and nine years on remains in good health and spirits, till surfing, writing and travelling.
Yen-Rong Wong is an arts critic and award-winning writer. She won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in 2022, and the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award in 2020. Her work has appeared in many print and online publications, including The Guardian, Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, and Griffith Review. Me, Her, Us is her debut book of non-fiction.
Journalist and author Michael Burge is based at Deepwater in the NSW New England region. His debut novel Tank Water (MidnightSun Publishing) is a coming-of-age crime novel exploring the taboo subject of homophobia in rural Australia. He has written for Guardian Australia, Fairfax Media and The Journal of Australian Studies.