Artists

Alex C. Steffan is a poet and parent. They write in both English and German and use poetry as a means of resilience and finding stillness in the mayhem.

Alison J Barton is a Wiradjuri poet based in Melbourne.

Amelia Kngwarraye Turner is a cultural leader, Angangkere or traditional healer and artist. She has been the leader of Akeyulerre’s Healing Centre’s Angkwerre-Iweme (Traditional Healing) Project for over eight years.

With original music and storytelling from Mparntwe, the Balaclava Peace Collective play conscious desert soundscapes rooted in the classic genres of blues, rock, reggae and folk.

Bebe Oliver is a Bardi Jawi award-winning author, poet and illustrator.

Carielyn Tunion is an emerging writer, videopoet, cultural worker and educator.

Damien Becker lives and writes on Bundjalung Country in Murwillumbah, Northern NSW. His work draws on a lifetime of chronic illness, living with cystic fibrosis and as a double-lung transplant recipient.

Sally Westaway is a classical harpist and vocalist, Dan the Underdog is an MC Producer.

Dave Clark is a reliable human with unreliable health. He’s a writer-poet with chronic fatigue syndrome, living in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).

Songwriter/producer based in Mparntwe/Alice Springs.

Deya Miranda Giner is a professional flamenco dancer and Principal Dance Instructor at Newcastle Flamenco Dance.

Diego is a highly acclaimed astrophotographer who has a passion for dark skies.

Dominic Guerrera is a Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna writer, curator and text based visual artists who’s work focuses on the lived experiences of Aboriginal people and social justice movements.

Dr. Adam Yates is a prominent palaeontologist and dinosaur expert based in Mparntwe.

Dr Tim Patston is one of Australia’s leading researchers and consultants in the field of Creativity and Innovation in Education.

Edi is a transgender writer/music producer/musician/activist based in Mparntwe.

Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino-Australian poet, performer, arts producer and advocate.

A singing poet, Emma Trenorden is the author of HIGH FIRE DANGER, a book of poems about the Black Summer fires.

Eva Fernandes is a writer, spoken word artist and comedian.

Faumelisa Manquepillan Calfuleo is a Mapuche artist born in Chile’s Los Ríos Region.

Francis Diatschenko is a world-renowned classical, flamenco and jazz guitarist from Darwin.

Gabrielle Journey Jones is a poet, percussionist, social worker and academic with a deep interest in creativity and wellbeing.

Highly-award winning, Multi-arts Shapeshifter and Multi-Dimensional Storyteller Ghenoa Gela, is a proud Mualgal Poid, Aragan and Koedal – Aubaith Clan Wagadagam, and Samsep, Peidu Woman of the Torres Straits.

Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer living on unceded Gadigal Country.

Heather Taylor-Johnson is an American Australian living and working on Kaurna Land.

Hendri Yulius Wijaya is an Indonesian poet based in Melbourne, Australia.

Violinist/composer Hollis Taylor performs her (re)compositions of birdsongs along with her environmental field recordings.

Huda the Goddess is an internationally recognised spoken word poet, educator, and activist known for her powerful improvised poetry.

James Bretherton is a poet who grew up in Sydney and now lives in Ndaria (Hermannsburg) on Western Arrernte Country.

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist.

Quasi-local NT poet Jeremy Garnett (@jpgpoet) delights in poetry detailing the instance, essence, act of an experience.

Jihad Yassine is a poet and winner of the 2025 Bankstown Poetry Grand Slam.

Jody Kopp is an Arrernte mother, grandmother, artist, writer and lover of life!

Juan Garrido Salgado is a Chilean poet who has lived in Australia since 1990.

Julio Carrasco is a Chilean poet, novelist, and musician whose work engages intersections between literature, sound, and urban space.

Dr Kelly Lee Hickey is an artist and community philosopher of Irish and German descent.

Kultar Ahluwalia is a multidisciplinary hip hop artist from Southern Adelaide with Punjabi and Irish roots.

Lay Maloney is a young genderfluid storyteller of the Gumbaynggirr and Gunggandji nations and South Sea Islander heritage based on Dunghutti Country.

Leisa Govan is the Regional Arts Fund Grant Manager, with a passion for community engagement and regional arts.

Luke Patterson is a Gamilaroi poet, educator and musician living on Gadigal lands.

Mahalia Charlotte grew up in Wollongong by the sea on Dharawal land. Now, she is a poet living in the Northern Territory on Jawoyn, Dagoman and Wardaman lands with her partner and 3 cats.

Marjorie ‘Nunga’ Williams is a senior Western Arrernte woman. She was born in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in 1953, where she lives today.

Maureen Jipyiliya Nampijinpa O’Keefe is an artist, writer, storyteller, and storykeeper.

Melanie Mununggurr is a Djapu (Yolŋu) poet whose voice rose to prominence after winning the Australian Poetry Slam in 2018.

K.A Ren Wyld is an author of Martu descent who lives by the sea south of Adelaide.

Rob Waters is a Gomeroi man from North West NSW and is a former Australian Poetry Slam Champion.

Robin M Eames is a queercrip poet and historian living on Dharug land.

Rosie Wild is a poet and vocalist whose work grapples with gender, celebrates queerness, and simmers with rage.

Sara M Saleh is an award winning writer, poet of Palestinian, Egyptian, and Lebanese heritage, who has shared her work on stages from Brooklyn to Bangalore.

Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning poet, educator and arts producer living on Bundjalung lands in the NSW Northern Rivers.

Led by Carol Turner, the Simpson Desert Dancers are a traditional Arrernte dance group, representing language and sharing culture.

Spandana Pillarisetty is living and writing from Mparntwe/ Alice Springs on Arrernte country.

Stellar Sea are a cohort of post-punk eco-queers with a kink for planetary survival and eyeliner.

Storm Chasers Inc. is an atmospheric journey into moody soundscapes, swampy grooves and gritty musings.

Tisha is an Anmatjere woman from Petyale outside Ti Tree remote community, around 230 kms north of Mparntwe Alice Springs.

Victoria Alondra is a poet, artist and student based in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), unceded Arrernte lands.

WAARI is a Blak artist and storyteller whose work moves through sound as a way of holding memory, carrying Country, and speaking back to the conditions of now.

Warren H Williams is an Aboriginal Australian singer, musician and songwriter from Ntaria in Central Australia.

Wendy Taleo’s work is embedded in ontological poetry inquiry that surfaces her stories and the connection with place.

XAVIA crafts immersive soundscapes that blend wonder and warmth into contemporary folk.