John Mateer's work has been variously described as 'inquisitorial' and 'as much at the frontier of language as at the frontier of a psyche', 'finely tuned' & 'powerfully intense', his poetry has received international attention. Born in Johannesburg, Mateer has published 5 books including poetry and travel writing. Elsewhere, his latest book, collects poems written in South Africa, Japan, the US & Mexico. He now lives in Perth.
Jimmy Jack AKA Jimmy the Exploder wrote screenplays for the feature films The Black Balloon and Five Guys Named Moe. He will read an excerpt from his current screenplay The Zombies: sex, brains & rock'n'roll.
Patrick Pittman fashions zeroes and ones into a variety of shapes, depending on passing clouds of mood and flitting interest. These include words of fiction and words of reportage, radio broadcasts, blogs, successful businesses, many thousands of websites, databases and strange pieces of software, glorious Gantt charts, ridiculous art projects and far too many long, verbose emails. When asked what he does for a living, he usually shrugs and lets someone else answer the question. He supposes he is some form of bitsmith.
Somewhere in the dark and nasty region where nobody goes, stands an ancient castle. Deep within this dank and uninviting place lives Berk, overworked servant of thing upstairs. But that's nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath the trap door, for there is always something down there, in the dark, waiting to come out.
Don't you open that trapdoor, you're a fool if you dare. Stay away from that trapdoor, cause there's something down there.
SalamandaStrong love dragons and trapdoors and cellophane lights.
Kate-Anna Williams is not a very interesting person. In her final year of a fine arts course, she works with text, using language as subject matter as well as a medium. In her spare time Kate-Anna writes very small stories, generally detailing her own neurosis. In 2008 she has been working on a chapter for the publication First Page.
Byron Bard is a poet, playwright, novelist, visual artist, martial artist, and genius. When not basking in the glory of his renaissance masculinity, he gazes wistfully at the night sky.
Gabrielle Everall has published Dona Juanita and the love of boys which is for sale at both Cottonmouth and Planet Books. She has performed at BDO, Overload, NYWF, Emerging Writer's Festival, Putting on an Act. She writes erotic poetry and prose.
Polish born, Australian singer, musician and songwriter, Gosia Basinska has been writing and playing music for 14 years. After some time in girl rock bands, she moved onto other projects including fronting the original band Smitten, playing drums and singing for Ten Speed Racer, and working closely with Allan Boyd in Freebase as vocalist and Mitey Co as guest vocalist.
More recently her music projects include: recording an album that is currently being mixed by Mikael Hakkarainen and mastered by Esa Santonen in Finland, working collaboratively with musicians from the UK, Italy on small projects and also with musicians from New-Zealand on an album called Dhialogue, singing Jazz at La Tropicana Cafe and integrating music into the Elegant Pedlars' performances.
Christina Chau - lover of ponies and crabs but unfortunately one of them doesn't make it in her story. Gian Manik is currently teaching and making around town, projecting complements for Christina tonight.
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