CONTRIBUTORS
Saskia Bunce-Rath
Good
Saskia watches too much television and appreciates hummus varieties.
Brent Cantwell
Aoraki moraine
Brent Cantwell is a New Zealand writer from Timaru, South Canterbury, who lives with his family in the hinterland of Queensland, Australia. He teaches high school English and has been writing for pleasure for 23 years. He has recently been published in Sweet Mammalian 4, Turbine|Kapohau, Cordite, Brief, Blackmail Press, Landfall, London Grip and Takahē.
Belinda Diepenheim
A medieval remedy for divorce
Belinda grew up in Wellington where she once worked as a horticulturalist in the Botanic Gardens and Otari Native Plant Museum. She now lives in Ashhurst in the Manawatu. Belinda won the International Writers’ Workshop Kathleen Grattan award for a sequence of poems in 2013, which is the backbone of her book of poetry Waybread & Flax, which was published in 2015.
Ben Egerton
Systema naturae
Ben Egerton is a poet and education lecturer from Wellington. Currently, he's a PhD candidate at the IIML at Victoria University where his interests lie in the intersection of contemporary poetry and Christian faith. Ben's work has appeared and is forthcoming in such places as Landfall, Cordite Poetry Review, SWAMP, The Times Education Supplement, Turbine|Kapohau and The Eyewear Review. Ben's dog considers him a talented thrower of tennis balls.
Madison Hamill
Vampirism
Madison is a Wellington-based writer, originally from Dunedin. She is currently completing a Master of Arts in creative non-fiction at the International Institute of Modern Letters.
Rebecca Hawkes
The cave draws u in like a breath
Rebecca Hawkes is a painter and perpetual student who completed an MA in non-fiction writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2016. You can find more of her work in Starling, Sport, Mayhem, and elsewhere via www.rebeccahawkesart.com.
Chris Holdaway
Gorse
Chris is from Northland, got his MFA at Notre Dame in the US, and directs Compound Press in Auckland. He is the author of HIGH-TENSION/FASHION (Greying Ghost, 2018).
Ash Davida Jane
Ex machina
A. Davida Jane is a poet and bookseller from Wellington. She has a degree in English from Victoria University. Her first poetry collection was published with Platypus Press in the UK in 2016. She can also be found on social media @adavidajane.
Jamie de Jong
My fire love
Jamie de Jong is a 3rd year student studying English at Auckland Uni. She has been recently been published in Mayhem and Water Soup. She is a fast knitter and huge tennis fan.
Anuja Mitra
Suburban legends
Anuja Mitra enjoys mint chocolate chip ice cream, indie films and petting her small colony of cats. More of her writing can be found in Signals, Starling, and exhibited in “The Next Word: Contemporary New Zealand Poetry” at the National Library.
Janet Newman
Hunters and gatherers
Janet Newman’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies including Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2017, Atlanta Review, Manifesto Aotearoa, and Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. She was the winner of the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition 2015, and the International Writers’ Workshop Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems 2017. She is working on a PhD thesis at Massey University looking at New Zealand ecopoetry.
Jackson Nieuwland
Sphere of unidentifiable orange gas
Jackson Nieuwland is a contributing member of society. They like to have a nice time with their friends in either one-on-one or small group situations. But they also like to have some alone time to watch NBA highlights, listen to D&D podcasts, and eat some yummy snacks.
Mikaela Nyman
Five years later
Mikaela Nyman was born in the autonomous, demilitarised Åland islands in Finland. She loves Wellington, but the housing madness has forced her to shift to Taranaki. Her writing has been published in various journals including Sport, JAAM, Minarets, 4th Floor, SWAMP and Turbine. She should be focusing on her novel, but art and poetry keep interfering.
Tess Ritchie
I thought that you would fade from me
Tess Ritchie is from Dunedin and currently lives and works in Melbourne. She studied English Literature at the University of Otago.
Devon Smith
Issue Five cover
Devon is an artist and tattooist from Dunedin. www.instagram.com/devonannasmith
Chris Stewart
Mummy
Chris Stewart lives in Christchurch. A graduate of The Hagley Writers' Institute, his poems have been published in Catalyst, Aotearotica, Brief, Mimicry, Takahē, Snorkel, Blackmail Press, and in issue four of Sweet Mammalian.
Ashleigh Young
Hero vegetable
Ashleigh Young writes essays and poems and works as an editor at Victoria University Press in Wellington. She is the author of Magnificent Moon (poems, VUP 2012) and Can You Tolerate This? (essays, VUP 2016). She blogs at eyelashroaming.com.