The Petrov Affair was a Cold War spy incident in Australia, concerning the defection of Vladimir Petrov, a KGB officer, from the Soviet embassy in Canberra in 1954. The defection led to a Royal Commission and the resulting controversy contributed to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.
Laurence James Duggan, known as Laurie Duggan, is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.
M. T. C. Cronin is a contemporary Australian poet.
Anna Couani is a contemporary Australian poet and visual artist.
Joanne Burns is a contemporary Australian poet and prose writer, with a strong emphasis on performance in her work.
Jill Jones is a poet and writer from Sydney, Australia. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide.
Rhyll McMaster is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. She has worked as a secretary, a nurse and a sheep farmer. She now lives in Sydney and has written full-time since 2000. She is a recipient of the Barbara Jefferis Award.
The ACT Writing and Publishing Awards are an Australian literary award presented by the ACT Writers Centre for the best books in the categories of non-fiction, fiction, poetry and children's literature written in the Canberra region. They have been awarded since 2004. The winners in each category receive a $500 prize.
Tracy Ryan is an Australian poet and novelist. She has also worked as an editor, publisher, translator, and academic.
Sarah Holland-Batt is a contemporary Australian poet, critic, and academic.
Felicity Plunkett is an Australian poet, literary critic, editor and academic.
Eileen Chong is an Australian contemporary poet.
John Foulcher is an Australian poet and teacher.
Ronald Keith Pretty was an Australian poet, editor, publisher and teacher.
Cassandra Atherton is an Australian prose-poet, critic, and scholar. She is an expert on prose poetry, contemporary public intellectuals in academia, and poets as public intellectuals, especially hibakusha poets. She is married to historian Glenn Moore.
Stephen Kenneth Kelen, known as S. K. Kelen, is an Australian poet and educator. S. K. Kelen began publishing poetry in 1973, when he won a Poetry Australia contest for young poets and several of his poems were published in that journal.
Stuart Barnes is an Australian poet.
Lisa Gorton is an Australian poet, novelist, literary editor and essayist. She is the author of three award-winning poetry collections: Press Release, Hotel Hyperion, and Empirical. Her novel The Life of Houses, received the NSW Premier's People's Choice Award for Fiction, and the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction (shared). Gorton is also the editor of Black Inc's anthology Best Australian Poems 2013.
Susan Varga is an Australian writer and philanthropist who was born in Hungary in 1943.
Louise Oxley is an Australian poet who "often uses nature as a vehicle to enter metaphors that examine a more emotional, inner view of the world".
