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Guest Editor: Manisha Anjali
Issue 41: LovePublished April 2020
Panda Wong is an inefficient and constantly annoyed poet and writer living in Naarm/so-called Melbourne. She writes about the never-ending; irritating landscape of grief; complaint and feeling as expression; and online/IRL performances of grief/coping. Her poetry draws on silly little things like the run-on-sentence-headlines of The Daily Mail, chihuahua memes, and Kim Kardashian’s foray into morgue make up application. She is currently working on her first chapbook called ‘salmon cannon me into the abyss’.
She is currently completing her Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT University and works as an Associate Editor at The Suburban Review. She has performed her poetry at Emerging Writers Festival, Digital Writers Festival, NIDAnights x Liminal, Incendium Radical Library, and more. Her writing has been published in The Lifted Brow, Rabbit, Sick Leave and more. Her favourite poet is her mum. <3
Anita Solak is a multilingual poet and writer. She is attempting to sort through the struggles of language, family, love and responsibility. Her work obsesses over reconciling the absurdity of the past with the absurdity of the present and the way languages take up space on a page. She writes to uncover all that is silenced in the migrant home and perform her confusion for the world.
She completed student exchange at the University of Birmingham in 2016, a Bachelor of Creative Writing in 2017 and is currently studying the Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT University. Her writing has been published in Cordite, Rabbit, Voiceworks and more. She is fascinated by prosody, languages, community and place.