Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning poet, educator and producer. She has taught poetry to hundreds of people from ages 8 to 89 and directs Poets Out Loud, a community arts initiative based in the Northern Rivers. Her debut collection Tight Bindings explores the stories we tell and the secrets we keep. 

Jasmine Anoushian is a writer and poet engaged in Australia’s literary community through festivals, event production and workshop facilitation.

She trained in Professional Writing & Editing in Naarm, where her poetry has been awarded and published, and is passionate about storytelling as a force for connection.

Currently living on Bundjalung Country, she produces community poetry nights that bring local voices together.

After a long career in education in Sydney and Lismore, Angela Szczotko reinvented herself as a written and spoken word poet from the Northern Rivers. She has been awarded, commended and shortlisted in various competitions, with associated websites and chapbooks publishing several poems.

Angela has performed at Spoken Word venues in the region and in The Australian Poetry Slam. She has co-judged Kyogle Writers Festival Poetry Competition and Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup.