Best of Australian Poems 2024 Showcase

Toby Fitch is poetry editor of Overland, a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Sydney, and editor-at-large for Australian Poetry. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including, most recently, Sydney Spleen (Giramondo ...

Madison Griffiths is an author, artist and producer. Her debut book Tissue (Ultimo Press) was released in 2022, and is a boldly poetic meditation on abortion and what it has the power to represent. She is the co-producer of ...

LK Holt has published six books; her most recent is Three Books (2024). Her books have won the Queensland Literary Award for Poetry, the New South Wales Premier’s Award for Poetry, and the Grace Leven Prize ...

Andy Jackson is a poet, creative writing teacher at the University of Melbourne, and a Patron of Writers Victoria. His latest poetry collection is Human Looking, which won the ALS Gold Medal and the Prime Minister's ...

Georgia Kartas is a writer, researcher and performer living in Naarm. George co-runs quarterly poetry event Thin Red Lines, and is the Reviews Editor of KalliopeX literary journal. Created as part of the 2020 Wheeler Centre ...

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri poet, essayist, and author from the Marrambidya River. Her poetry and literary critique have been widely published in literary journals and magazines such as Overland, Sydney Review of Books ...

Scott-Patrick Mitchell is a WA-based queer non-binary poet who was the recipient of 2022’s Red Room Poetry Fellowship and Westerly’s 2022 Mid-Career Fellowship. Their debut poetry collection Clean (Upswell Publishing ...

Roslyn Orlando is an artist, writer and gardener based in Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country. Her writing and artistic works explore relationships between language, history and technology. She studied Journalism at ...

Munira Tabassum Ahmed’s work has been published in Pleiades, Meanjin, Australian Poetry Journal, Liminal, Cordite, and elsewhere. She was the 2022 Kat Muscat Fellow, a Youth Ambassador for Red Room Poetry, and ...

Thabani Tshuma is a multi-award-winning Zimbabwean writer and performance poet. His work can be found in publications such as Dichotomi magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, CUBBY ART, and ABC ArtWorks’ SLAMMED ...