Hazel Hall is an Australian poet and musicologist who works across a wide range of poetic forms. She holds a PhD in Education from Monash University. From 2012 to 2018, Hazel was founder and convenor of the School of Music Poets, ACT: an ekphrastic group that collaborated with musicians, song writers, and artists to produce a series of poetry chapbooks. She directed the monthly event Poetry at Manning Clark House in Canberrra from 2018 to 2022. Hazel’s work can be found in a wide range of local and overseas anthologies and journals and has been a featured poet in printed journals, on websites and blogs. She has won a number of prizes and editors’ awards.

Deborah Dawkings is a Canberra poet, working on her first collection. She writes mostly about family, the female gaze and the uncanny. A number of her poems have been published by The Canberra Times and Cordite. She was shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Catholic University prize.