Meet the Toolkits: Poetry 2025 participants
A huge welcome to the poetic whizzes taking part in Toolkits: Poetry for 2025!
Facilitated by Lou Garcia-Dolnik, this 12-week program is a practical initative designed to help poets under 30 develop their poetic practice and build creative community through theory, writing exercises, and mentorship.
Congratulations to this year’s cohort — we cant wait to see what you get up to as part of Toolkits, and into the future :-)
Quentin Brown
Quentin Brown (he/him) is a writer based on Kaurna yerta. His award-winning work has been featured both locally and internationally through festivals, anthologies, zines, and radio shows. Drawing from lived experience as a transgender man, his poetry approaches the body as a stage for visceral, vibrant, and sensory stories. He uses metaphor to blur boundaries between human and animal, seeking to connect us to the earth and to each other.
Becky Croy
Becky Croy (she/her) is a writer and musician living and working (mostly) in Naarm. If she isn't, she's out exploring nature with a little note book somewhere. She has a degree in Drama and English Literature and has previously participated in Oxford University's Creative Writing Summer School in 2019. Since then she has had writing published online, in university magazines and in zines. When she isn't writing she likes to watch sappy sitcoms with her cat, Tonka, bust out some Amy Winehouse on the guitar and play DnD with her friends.
Thomas Enriquez
Thomas Enriquez (he/him) is a writer and video artist working on Wallumedegal land. His poetry explores the transience of existence, often connecting with themes of confession, friendship and the intersection of sensory experience and queerness. He has performed his work at open mics and slam poetry events including Bankstown Poetry Slam and Westside Poetry Slam. His video poems have been exhibited at artist-run initiatives like Pari and examine ideas of destinationless journeying and slowness. He believes a good walk can contain a life wholly experienced.
Izma Haider
Izma Haider (she/her) studies, works and writes on Wurundjeri land.
Nalini Jacob-Roussety
Nalini Jacob-Roussety (she/her) was raised in Melbourne and has been dictating epic stories to her mother since before she could hold a pen. An avid traveller and periodical nomad, she has worked at magazines both in Australia and North America. With a degree in Literature and Philosophy, she often explores philosophical and speculative concepts. You can find her on Instagram @words.by.nalini.
Mabel Lewin
Mabel Lewin (she/her) is a student at the University of Queensland where she studies English Literature and History.
Julia Muntoni
Julia Muntoni (she/they) is a queer and neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm. They have a particular love for life writing, poetry biography and poetry autobiography. Their work explores identity, joy, resistance, illness and social systems, often intersecting with their studies in social work.
Adela Teubner
Adela Teubner (she/they) is a writer, editor, and musician practising on unceded Kaurna Yerta. Currently sitting on Voiceworks' Editorial Committee, her work has been published in Little White Lies, Senses of Cinema, and Polyester Zine, and she was a 2024 Toolkits: Non-Fiction participant. She can be found: watching the sunlight glisten on her local creek, listening to Big Thief, communing with the superb fairywrens, eating smoked cheddar, defending the Oxford comma, and wearing impractical vintage coats to the supermarket.
Huyen Hac Helen Tran
Huyen Hac Helen Tran (she/her) is a writer and arts worker currently living and working on Gadigal land. Her writing and research revolve around digital identities, cultural inheritance, the body, care, and personal narrative. She has been published by Liminal Magazine, Meanjin, The Suburban Review, Sydney Review of Books, The Big Issue, and more. She is currently completing a Masters Degree in Research, under the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. She is the Digital Communications Officer for the Sydney Review of Books and a recipient of the 2025 Whitlam Essay Residency. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Victoria Winata
Victoria Winata (she/her) is an Indonesian, Naarm-based writer, artist, and theatremaker. She was born in Semarang, Central Java, where she lived until she moved to Bali at eight years old. After five years, Victoria moved with her family to Melbourne when she was 13 years old. In her creative practice, Victoria interrogates questions surrounding multiculturalism, identity, migration, and trauma, among many others. Her work is contemplative and self-reflective as she often draws from her own background and personal experiences.
About the facilitator:
Lou Garcia-Dolnik is a poet living and working on sovereign Gadigal-Wangal land. An alumnus of the Banff Centre’s Emerging Writers Intensive, they were the 2023 recipient of the Australian Poetry/NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship and attended Tin House’s Summer Workshop in the poetry faculty. They sit on the board of Runway Journal as Editor.
Toolkits: Poetry is presented in partnership with Australian Poetry.