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$5/10Paris Rosemont is a multi-disciplinary Thai Australian writer and author of poetry collections 'Banana Girl,' 'Barefoot Poetess', and chapbook '>>glitch<<'. Paris’s poetry has been published in literary journals worldwide including Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Splinter, and Sky Island Journal. Winner of the Matthew Rocca Poetry Prize 2025, shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize 2026 and longlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize 2026, Paris is also a critic for Mascara Literary Review, Guest Editor for Written Off Literary Journal, and sits on the Hunter Writers’ Centre Board. She is currently working on her debut novel, 'Bruised Fruit', exploring diaspora, desire, and cultural inheritance. Find her on Instagram @msparisrose
Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello OAM is an award-winning visual artist, poet and writer of Lower Southern Arrernte, Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. Founder of the ACT Indigenous Writers Group in 1999, she was awarded the Canberra Critics Circle Award 2000 for Literature, an ACT Creative Arts Fellowship for Literature in 2003. She is a former member of AIATSIS Aboriginal Studies Press Advisory Committee, and judge for the NSW and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, including the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Literature. Jennifer’s prizes include the Banjo Paterson Poetry Prize, and Henry Lawson Short Story Prize. She is a Red Room Poetry Fellow, 2026 and a Varuna First Nations Fellow for 2027. Her poetry, prose and essays have been published nationally and internationally, including the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009, Shapeshifting, UQP, 2024, Borderless, Recent Work Press, 2021, and Best of Australian Poems, Australian Poetry, 2022. Jennifer lives and works on the unceded lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people, Kamberri/Canberra Australia.
Photo of Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello by Maja Baska, taken as part of the Red Room Poetry Fellowship at Varuna.
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