Small Change Press

Nathan Shepherdson is the son of painter Gordon Shepherdson. He was the winner of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize in 2004 and 2006. In 2005 he received the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Award for an unpublished manuscript. As a consequence of that award, his first book, Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror was published by the University of Queensland Press. At the 2006 Queensland Poetry Festival he was the recipient of the Val Vallis Award and in the same year was awarded the Newcastle Poetry Prize.

David Stavanger's poetry has been published in various Australian magazines, newspapers and anthologies including The Courier Mail, Going Down Swinging, The Broadkill Review (US), Foam:e, Staples, Ripples, small packages, & Blackmail Press (NZ) as well as on the Brisbane City Cats as part of the QPF - Poem for a Week project. Following being offered a Arts QLD Grant, his first book Station to Station was released in 2006 featuring photography by Justin Leegwater. A key member of the QLD Poetry Festival management committee from 2006-7 he completed a writers residency in Broken Hill in 2007 following featuring at their 2006 Poetry Festival with Peter Bukowski. He has also performed feature readings at the Montselvat Poetry Festival, Noosa Long Weekend Arts Festival, QLD Poetry Festival 2005-7, The Brisbane Writers Festival, Passionate Tongues (Melb) & The Dan (Melb), and The Poets Union Reading @ The Brett Whitely Studio in Sydney as well as all of Brisbane’s premier poetry events.

David's biggest poetic influences to date are Yevtushenko, David Bowie, Alan Ginsberg, his wife Suzanne and holding his son Gentle each night.

He is in no way associated to the rank performance beast known as Ghostboy - who often interprets David's poetry live making a mockery of all that David holds dear.

Pascalle Burton is half of explosive poetry/pop sister act Maiden Speech and one of Brisbane's exciting new voices. Pascalle won both the Queensland Poetry Festival and Woodford Folk Festival Slams in 2006, making her the only QLD poet to have won two major Slam titles. She is also an integral part of ouTsideRs, where she performs and co-mc's their monthly slam. Her debut collection, A Vast Laugh will be launched in March, 2008. For more info visit www.myspace.com/pascallemaiden.

Julie Beveridge is an emerging poet who lives in Brisbane. She is the Marketing & Programming Coordinator for Queensland Writers Centre and is the current Stage Manager of The Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word. Her first collection of poetry Rock’n’Roll Tuxedo was launched at the 2005 Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word .

As an active member of the Brisbane poetry community, she reads regularly at SpeedPoets, ouTsideRs and The Velvet Landmine. She is passionate about the innovation in promotion and distribution of new poetry and is always looking for a new way to deliver poetry to an audience.

Beveridge has been a feature artist at the Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word; Byron Bay Writers Festival; Tasmanian Poetry Festival and the Sydney Writers Festival: 2006 Word Wrestling Federation SLAM as well as reading at various arts events in Brisbane, Noosa, Bulimba, Rockhampton, Ipswich, Nambour, The Gold Coast and Melbourne.

Her work has recently appeared in the following publications:

Stylus Poetry Journal; Retort Magazine; Bottle Rockets (USA); Kokako (NZ); Page Seventeen; Contemporary Haibun Online; Cordite; Famous Reporter; Ripples Magazine; Idiom23 and Small Packages.

Julie has been selected as a Poet-in-Resident as part of Tasmania's Island of Residencies program 2007.

Her latest collection, Home is where the Heartache is (due March 2007 through Small Change Press), is her first collection of haibun.

You can contact Julie at: julesbev@yahoo.com.au.

Graham Nunn is a Brisbane based writer, current Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word, co-editor of Small Change Press and founding member of local performance group SpeedPoets.

His work has been published online at GetUnderground, Retort Magazine, Lily Review, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Stylus Poetry Journal, SoftBlow, Poetic Voices and Sidereality; in print journals and anthologies Open Wide, Staples, Blue Dog - The Australian Poetry Journal, SOOB New Writing Anthology, Aesthetica, The Courier Mail and Remark to name a few.

He has been invited to read at Wordstorm (2006), The Byron Bay Writers Festival (2005), The Tasmanian Poetry Festival (2005), Ubud Readers and Writers Festival (2004), Kaiyar Festival of Art Wine and Words (2004), The QLD Poetry Festival (2001 - 2006), Straight Out Of Brisbane Festival (2002 - 2004), Triple Z's - Joint Effort (2003), the Brisbane Writer's Festival (2003 & 2004), Visible Ink (2004) and various other poetry readings including feature spots at New and Selected, The Expressure Lounge, Orphic, The Up Front Club, Live Poets, Writers at the Rails, ouTsideRs & SpeedPoets. He has also read on radio stations 1197AM, Planet Radio, 612 4QR, 3RRR (Melbourne) and 4ZZZ.

Graham’s first collection, A Zen Firecracker - selected haiku was released in November, 2003. Share the Tragedy was launched at the Brisbane Writer’s Festival in October 2004 and Measuring the Depth, a collection of haiku and haibun, published by Pardalote Press, was released in 2005. Ruined Man will be released through Small Change Press in May, 2007.

You can contact Graham at geenunn@yahoo.com.au.

Rob Morris is a Brisbane writer with a strong interest in poetry. An experienced performer, he has published, five collections of poetry.

He co-edits small packages, a pocket-sized poetry magazine and has written also on popular music and culture.

His work has been published widely and he has been an invited guest at The Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word, The Riverbend Books Readings, Readings at The Republic (Tasmania) and The Up Front Club to name a few.

He is currently writing a book of humorous poems for children. His interests include collecting old radios, vinyl and staying helpful.

So Much Weather will be released through Small Change Press mid-2007.

Matt Hetherington is a writer and musician based in Melbourne. He was editor of Love & Fear: A Poetry Anthology (La Trobe University, 2003), and his first collection of poetry was Surface (PRECIOUS PRESS, 2004). In 2006 a selection of aphorisms from his notebooks appeared in the Seattle-based Impassio Press collection In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing.

In the same year Matt was also a founding member (along with Myron Lysenko & Leanne Hills) of ‘rookuTroupe’, who were the editors of the ‘rooku’ component of the ‘Moving Galleries’ Project, which enabled 36 different pieces of short-form poetry to be read for over 9 months on 20 different metropolitan trains.

He was also recently Co-Producer and Off-line Editor of a two-hour ‘performance documentary’ film entitled Straight from the Tank.

Some current poetic inspirations: Antonio Porchia, Jellaladin Rumi, Tom Joyce, Paul Eluard, Grant Caldwell, Emily Dickinson, Bob Dylan, Diego Maradona.