34-37 Degrees South - 2023

Lajos Hamers is a storyteller of Hungarian folk tales, writer, actor and
musician. He recently completed a stint as writer in residence at the
SCWC space in the Creative Studios in Wollongong where he began
writing a dramatic monologue about his 25+ years as Santa Claus.
Lajos also recently had a poem published in the Admissions:Voices
within Mental HealthAnthology which formed the basis of an episode
of the A Good Mind To … podcast series.
Stella Hatzis is a lover of all things lexical and has a background in
epic and digital poetry.
Tim Heffernan was born on the Murrumbidgee and moved upstream
to Wagga and Cooma. He now lives in Wollongong. He mostly writes
within these latitudes.
Elanna Herbert lives on Yuin country, NSW South Coast. Her
writing appears in numerous literary journals and anthologies.
Elanna’s first book of poetry, sifting fire writing coast, is available
through Walleah Press. Elanna holds a PhD in Communication.
https://elannaherbert.blogspot.com
Kai Jensen has had poems published in many leading Australian and
New Zealand literary journals. Kai lives at Wallaga Lake.
Moira Kirkwood is aiming for one step at a time through the fog.
She has to remind herself to stay humble, grateful and bendy.
Elias McKinley exists in the bush, trying to figure out how to live
in a time of climate crisis. He tries to write poetry. He wishes he
wrote more often, but he writes a lot more than he did when he was
stuck on that city-life treadmill. Sometimes he likes what he writes,
sometimes he’s indifferent. But he always likes how he feels when he
writes.
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