A Revolution in Poetic Language

Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, researcher, and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her Stella-prize-winning poetry collection DROPBEAR was published by UQP in 2021. She lectures in Literature and Creative Writing at Deakin University.

Madison 'Maddie' Godfrey is a writer, educator, and emotional feminist. They have performed poetry at the Sydney Opera House, St Paul's Cathedral and Glastonbury Festival. Madison is a previous recipient of the Kat Muscat Fellowship, the Varuna Poetry Flagship Fellowship and was recently awarded a WA Youth Award for their 'Creative Contributions' to the state. 

Jill Jones is a poet and writer whose books include Wild Curious Air, which was the winner of the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and The Beautiful Anxiety, which won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2015. Her work is widely published in Australia, Canada, Ireland, NZ, Singapore, Sweden, UK, and USA. She has worked as an academic, arts administrator, journalist and book editor. Her latest book is Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems. 

Ellen van Neerven is a writer of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage. van Neerven's first book, Heat and Light, won the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers’ Prize. They are the author of two poetry collections: Comfort Food, and Throat, which won the Kenneth Slessor Prize, the Multicultural NSW Award and Book of the Year in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Jessica Alice is a poet and writer. She is Artistic Director of Byron Writers Festival and formerly CEO of Writers SA. Jessica’s poetry, commentary, and criticism is published in the Guardian, Meanjin, Overland, fine print magazine, The Lifted Brow, Metro Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review and Australian Poetry Journal, among others.