Meet the Toolkits: Poetry 2024 participants
Say hello to the young writers who will be taking part in this season of Toolkits: Poetry! Facilitated by Brayden Gilmartin, this 12-week program is designed to help emerging poets under 30 develop their writing voice, explore different approaches to poetry, and work towards publication.
These workshops are presented in partnership with Australian Poetry, and offer a unique developmental opportunity for participants to work one-on-one with the facilitar, hear from industry guests, and forge creative community.
Anna Gallagher (they/she)
Anna is a Melbourne based occasional writer and daily ponderer. Since studying creative writing at Melbourne University in 2019, they practise their creative muscle mainly through songwriting. They draw inspiration from the change of seasons, love and heartbreak, urban landscapes and finding beauty in the mundane. Other than writing, their other loves include froliking in the sun, cooking up a storm, and frequenting local watering holes.
August Moulang (they/them)
August Moulang is a writer and arts worker based on Wurundjeri Country. They enjoy blood orange marmalade and reading about lighthouses.
Bella Singal (they/them)
Bella Singal is an architect and a sessional staff at Monash University. They are deeply grounded in auto-Ethnographic methods of Positionality, Relationality and centering their practice around maintaining care. Their interests lie in textual and visual mapping techniques which draws out the entanglements that occur within colonised spaces.
@__besin
Caitlin Gerken (she/they)
Caitlin Gerken is a twenty-seven-year-old model and artist who is trying to navigate a world not made for neurodivergent people. They’re passionate about advocating for mental health and LGBTQ+ issues, and lives in Perth with their emotional support dragon.
Cecile Richard (they/them)
Cecile Richard makes cool things on the computer.
@haraiva everywhere
Linus Tolliday (they/them)
Linus Wolfe Tolliday is a filmmaker and writer whose work focuses on technical formalism while dismantling traditional narrative structures. They use notions of place and identity as canvases for narrative experimentations.
Saj Atm (she/her)
Saj is a poet, storyteller, performance artist and vocal dancer. She is a Bundjalung and Celtic descendant, her seeds carried on westerly winds from blooms that sprouted from cracks in the concrete. Yorta Yorta grounded her in philosophies and culture. This energy sustains her life force as she drives through these distorted worlds, time-stamping the writings and sonic musings of her heart. Saj Against The Machine.
Scout Manuel (they/them)
Scout Manuel is a 21-year-old poet who spends far too much time analysing Hozier lyrics. They live on Wurundjeri Country, writing reviews for Farrago Magazine and editing for Busybird Publishing. They currently have work published in Canary Collective, Voiceworks, SourCherryMag, and Radio Fodder.
@scout_writes_too_much
Sonal Kamble (she/her)
Sonal Kamble is a writer and illustrator based in Sydney. She was a winner of the 2023 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Voiceworks, PULP, and Verge Gallery.
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