Poet

Bethamy Nader Bethamy Nader … started writing poetry and short stories in early primary school, and in Grade 10 was awarded a Donbabin Scholarship to study European and English Literature. Bethamy continued writing whilst completing her Bachelor’s Degree in Greek, Roman and English Literature at UTAS. Her novels for ages 14 to adult include Ghost Stalker: White Lady Of Pontville, Tasmania (2018) and Juvie Jail (1985, revised 2019). Bethamy illustrates and writes books for young children; her release Miss Smiling Sun: Aaron and Mojo’s Sun Smart Play Day won an art prize in November 2018. Her books are available from Amazon and all good bookshops. Website https://www.amazon.com/Bethamy-Nader

Ron Moss Ron Moss has been writing haiku and related genres for the last twenty years. In that time he has published over a thousand haiku worldwide and his haiku appear in many collections and prestigious anthologies. Ron’s first collection The Bone Carver won the Snapshot Press Book Award, the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award, and an Honourable Mention in the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Award. Ron is highly regarded in the international haiku community and a member of many societies and groups. He is often asked to judge competitions and acts as an editor on various projects. Ron is also

Gina Mercer Gina Mercer loves words and revels in being a writer, teacher, and editor. She‘s taught creative writing in universities and communities for over 30 years. She was Editor of Island Magazine from 2006-2010. She’s published ten books (poetry, fiction, and nonfiction). Her two latest are: Weaving Nests with Smoke and Stone, a poetry collection all about birds (Walleah Press, 2015); and The Dictionary of Water (Abridged), a meditation on the element of Water (due for release in Spring, 2019). Publications Books: The Dictionary of Water (Abridged) Spring 2019. Weaving Nests with Smoke & Stone, Walleah Press, 2015 [Poetry] Seasoned with Honey: Poetry by Anne

Peter Macrow Peter Macrow is a celebrated author of haiku and longer poetry, fiction and book reviews, whose work has been published in the US, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Scotland and Bulgraria, as well as in Australia. He is a former tutor and lecturer in European Literature at the University of Tasmania. Publications Simply Haiku (2007) Hugging the Dog (2013)

Kathryn Lomer Since her 2001 novel The God in the Ink, Kathryn Lomer has published another seven books across the genres of short fiction, young adult fiction and poetry. Her most recent publication is the young adult novel Talk Under Water. Publications Fiction: The God in the Ink (UQP, 2001) Camera Obscura (UQP, 2008) Young Adult Fiction: The Spare Room (UQP, 2004 What Now, Tilda B? (UQP, 2010) Talk Under Water (UQP, 2015) Poetry: Extraction of Arrows (UQP, 2003) Two Kinds of Silence (UQP, 2007) Night Writing (UQP, 2014) Links Books available at http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Author.aspx/1420/Lomer,%20Kathryn (Free teachers notes available for Kathryn’s young adult novels) You can also hear Kathryn on ABC Radio National:

Kristen Lang Kristen Lang writes in North West Tasmania, near Sheffield. She has published Earth Dwellers (Giramondo Publishing, 2021), SkinNotes (Walleah Press, 2017) and The Weight of Light (Five Islands Press, 2017). Her earlier publication, Let me show you a ripple, includes both poetry and photography and followed in part from her PhD, awarded by Deakin University in 2004. She won the ACU Prize for Poetry in 2015, was shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award in 2019 and longlisted for the Margaret Scott Prize in the same year. https://kristenlang.carrd.co/ https://giramondopublishing.com/books/earth-dwellers/ Recommendations: ‘Few Australian poets have fused the mystical and the

Karen Knight Karen Knight lives in West Moonah with her percussionist husband, a cat and a bantam hen. She has a daughter and two grandchildren. Karen has been widely published and anthologised since the early 1960s. She has written four collections of poetry, her most recent, Postcards from the Asylum (Pardalote Press, 2008) won the 2005 Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship Award, the 2007 Arts ACT Alec Bolton Award and the 2011 University of Tasmania Prize (Tasmania Book Awards) for best book by a Tasmanian publisher. Karen has a long distance collaboration with Scottish writer Dilys Rose which resulted in a book of

Anne Kellas Anne Kellas is an Australian poet, reviewer and editor who has lived in Tasmania since leaving South Africa in 1986. Over the past 25 years she has taught poetry in Tasmania either through workshops for writing organisations or privately and has mentored several poets. She has occasionally lectured in poetry at the University of Tasmania (2014 and 2015) and has helped edit poetry books, novels, served as poetry editor for famous reporter, judged poetry competitions and also occasionally reviews poetry. She describes her style as “abstract lyric” which others see as displaying “bell-like clarity” (Ivy Alvarez) or a