They’re Poets, After All

Jihad Yassine is an emerging Arab poet who seeks to define his identity with his craft. He is a regular at Bankstown Poetry Slam and has competed in the largest poetry slams in the southern hemisphere.

Olly Moore is a queer, disabled poet, comic and academic living on Gadigal land. His academic interest is in storytelling at truth commissions, such as the Disability Royal Commission. His poetry draws on experiences of disability to reclaim the narratives of his impairments. He also has a background writing sketch comedy and has previously been published in Voiceworks and the Law Society Journal.

Antoinette Luu is a Vietnamese-Australian writer practising in south-west Sydney. Her poetry seeks to locate the global in the local. Antoinette volunteers with the Bankstown Poetry Slam and was a three-time finalist at their National Youth Poetry Slam. She is a senior editor for the UNSWeetened Literary Journal. Antoinette has published and performed with the Australian Poetry Journal, Sydney Writers Festival, PHIVE, Riverside Theatre, and FBi Radio.

Elliot York Cameron is a spoken word artist who grew up on Dharug and Dharawal land. He is a two-time Bankstown Poetry Slam Grand Slam champion and was an Australian Poetry Slam state finalist, and has performed at Sydney Writers’ Festival, National Young Writers’ Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Elliot’s poetry has been published in Bare Knuckle Poet and Baby Teeth Journal.