2024 Artists
All Things Peachy (Nicole Pietsch) is a performer, poet, artist, communications specialist and a committed change maker. Her art reflects her connection to country and...
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...
Andrew Cox is a Filipino/Australian who lives and works on Ngunnawal & Ngambri country and leads the Canberra Poetry Slam. Andrew’s work has been shortlisted...
Angela Peita is a spoken word performer, workshop facilitator and event producer. She is a founding member and current producer of Ruckus Slam – one...
Anjelka’s work draws inspiration from her proud Croatian heritage, what it’s like being a Wog living in Australia, world events and heart stories. This year...
Ben connected with the poetry scene in Alice Springs in 2016 after last writing poetry as a teenager. His poetry is about landscape both inner...
Big J aka James Nelson is an upcoming Warlpiri MC from Alice Springs (Mparntwe). He started rapping at the of 11 with his brother/cousin AJ...
Brooke Scobie is a queer, auDHD, Goorie poet, kidlit author and multi-disciplinary creative living on Darkinjung land. Their work is a love letter to Country...
Dan the Underdog is an award winning Northern Territory based MC/ producer. He has been pivotal in establishing the Northern Territory Hip Hop scene. Whether...
Alice Springs born and bred record producer and musician Darcy Davis has been immersed in music since beginning piano lessons at age 4. Following in...
Dave Clark is a writer-poet with chronic fatigue syndrome, living in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). He won the 2022 NT Literary Award (Poetry) and has works...
Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage living on Turrbal and Yagera land. They have authored two poetry collections,...
Glen Hunting is a poet, dramatist, and short story writer from Boorloo, Whadjuk Noongar boodja (Perth, WA), now based in Mparntwe, Arrernte country (Alice Springs,...
Ian is Australian-born and grew up in NSW. He has lived in Alice Springs since 1997, and has a deep love for his country and...
Jade Goodwin is a First Nations illustrator with curly brown hair and a big imagination. When she was a little girl, she loved spending time...
Jamie Fejo is a naturally gifted Artist from Ntaria (Hermannsburg), Central Australia. Born and raised in Alice Springs, Ntaria and His traditional Homelands. As a...
Jesse Oliver is a trans* queer poet from Boorloo who writes kind of slammy, often fantastical and optimistically emotive performance poetry. His work strives to highlight...
Jo Yang is a Naarm based poet, high school teacher and host of an education podcast, rethinking the current education system. She was the 2022...
Joni Boyd is a Boorloo based poet, radio host, and events organiser. She’s performed her queer punk poetry for gigs, festivals, house shows, theatre, bands...
Joseph is a Nigerian-Australian poet and founding member of the Hip Hop collective Argus & The Liar. He was a national finalist at the 2023...
Juran, a soulful artist from Tropical Darwin, blends inventiveness with captivating allure , exploring themes of love and the human psyche. In 2023, she collaborated...
Kelly Lee Hickey is an award winning artist, researcher and educator. She builds connections between people, places and ideas through collaborative and participatory creative works....
King Abo aka Hakiem Abbott is an MC/Producer originally from Mt. Isa, he grew up travelling all over but spent much of his formative years...
Kryton Stewart (a.k.a. MC Khronik) is a first nations hip hop/rap artist, political poet, activist, and proud Wodi Wodi and Wiradjuri man of the Yuin...
Originally from the Gulf of Carpentaria, Laurie May has made home here in the desert. With Aboriginal ancestry from Central Queensland from her father and...
Lay the Mystic is a lyrical poet, musician, practicing mystic and dedicated cubby-fort maker based in Eora. With a focus on exploring entanglements his works...
Leah Dodd is a poet and writer living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa New Zealand. Her first collection of poetry, Past Lives, was published in...
Leni Shilton is a poet, teacher and researcher. She grew up in Papua New Guinea and Melbourne and lived in Mparntwe | Alice Springs for...
Lucy Norton is a storyteller of Koori and Quechua heritage living and creating on Gadigal land. Her work explores themes of heritage, memory, ancestral trauma...
Luka Lesson is a poet, rapper and educator of Greek heritage born in Meanjin/Brisbane. His work crosses between the history of his family homeland, the...
Luke Patterson is a Gamilaroi poet, educator and musician living on Gadigal lands. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals. You will also find his...
Maria van Neerven is a Mununjali Yugambeh woman from south-east Queensland. She is a retired library technician who loves reading and writing poetry. Her first...
Marie Elena Ellis is an Arrernte Warlpiri woman from Amoonguna Community, 11km south-east of Mparntwe Alice Springs. She is a cultural adviser, educator, multi-linguist and...
Melanie Mununggurr is a Djapu woman, mother, poet, story teller and performer. Her writing speaks on her identity as, queer, First Nations and being a...
Born in Alice Springs (Mparntwe) and raised on Arrernte and Walpiri homelands, Narbz, also known as Narpipe Kngwarreye, is a gifted poet and rapper from...
Nicole Smede is a multi-disciplinary artist of Warrimay/Birribay and colonial descent, living and creating on Wodi Wodi Dharawal Country. Proud of her heritage, a reconnection...
Paris Rosemont is an Asian-Australian poet and author of Banana Girl (WestWords, 2023) which was shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature’s...
Rae White is a queer non-binary transgender writer. They are the author of poetry collections Milk Teeth (UQP 2018) and Exactly As I Am (UQP...
Reizor is a disabled queer artist living on Awabakal and Worimi Country. They’re an Artist of many crafts and mediums including wood, metal, cloth, and...
Gomeroi man Rob Waters is the current Australian Poetry Slam Champion. Originally from Tamworth in North West NSW, Rob currently is based on the Central...
Rosie Wild is trained in theatre, performance and creative writing. They love the power of words so much that they studied them at uni, then...
Saoirse is a gardener and performance poet born in Éire and living on Whadjuk Boodja. They’ve worked behind the scenes and on stage with a...
Sara M. Saleh is a writer, human rights lawyer, and the daughter of Palestinian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants. Her writing has been published widely in...
Sean West (he/they) is an Autistic poet, support worker, and workshop facilitator based in Meanjin. Their debut chapbook is Gutless Wonder (Queensland Poetry, 2023). In...
Shirley Kngwarraye Turner is from Anapipe Sandybore Outstation, northeast of Mparntwe. A Central Arrernte woman, she comes from strong families who respect their Countries and...
Aurora Liddle-Christie aka SOLCHLD is a Meanjin based Arrernte-Afro-Caribbean multidisciplinary artist, whose music, poetry, and performance navigates the liminality of the current experience on our...
Spandana Pillarisetty is living and writing from Mpartnwe/ Alice Springs on Arrernte country. They were born in South India, into a world where their grandmother...
Sukhjit is a writer, performer, theatre-maker, filmmaker, and producer based in Boorloo. Her work as a multi-form artist for the last ten years has been...
Victoria Alondra is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersections of joy and resistance, identity, displacement, violence and the cosmos. Born in Anáhuac (México),...
Hey, I’m YULUBALA, an Aboriginal artist from Alice Springs, NT. I began producing music as a way to escape the relentless turmoil of my own...