Mick Coventry
Mick Coventry is a writer of Australian rhyming poetry, author, storyteller, and illustrator. He is a member of the Australian Bush Poetry Association, the Victorian... Read More
Margaret Ryan
Margaret Ryan’s love of poetry goes back to childhood and first introduced to it through The Victorian State School Reader. Now retired, Margaret has returned... Read More
James Thomas
James has come to the world of poetry performance only in 2017. He did not even know there were places you could perform in public,... Read More
Rebecca Olive
Rebecca Olive is a Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University, where she studies how swimming and surfing shape our relationships to coasts and oceans. You can... Read More
Brenda Matthews
Brenda Matthews is a proud Wiradjuri woman. She lives with her husband, Mark, in Bundjalung country, Queensland. Brenda is a mother, a grandmother, a sister,... Read More
Michelle Write
As an award winning children’s author Michelle Write is best known for her books that tackle sensitive, serious, sometimes sad stuff. She is passionate about... Read More
Karen Ingram
Karen Ingram is an author, writer, performer, celebrant, mistress of ceremony, and manager of Louis Joel Arts & Community in Altona. She self-published Lifting the... Read More
Chunxiao Qu
Chunxiao Qu is a Chinese-born artist and poet living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice is largely focussed on language, spanning various mediums including... Read More
Angela Altair
Journalist by trade, Bloomsbury tragic by obsession, Angela co-founded the festival and was its first President. Bringing the litfest to life 20 years ago indulged... Read More