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Taylor Yeomans is an American writer and flash fiction pioneer. Originally from Roswell, Georgia, she graduated from the Meek School of Journalism at the University of Mississippi, and now lives in California. Taylor crafts stories with subtle layers of meaning, exploring perspectives from a single molecule to the farthest edges of the universe. She is published in Juste Milieu and Girls N Sugar. Taylor previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issues #2 and #4. www.lilaclacedlove.com	Sean West is a 3rd-year creative writing major at QUT. He is Social Media Manager for Vena Cava Productions and interns for Ruckus and Ruckus Youth Brisbane. He has appeared in Voiceworks, Freezeray Poetry (US), Slink Chunk Press and the first two issues of PASTEL. He is a lover of music festivals, statement pieces and all things rainbow. Sean previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #1, #2, #3 and #4.	Jessie Jackson is a third-year Writing and Literature poltergeist currently haunting the lakes and sandstone halls of UQ. Her writing has previously been published in Jacaranda Journal, The Tundish Review and PASTEL Magazine. You can find her lamenting the absurdity of humid summers as a ghost and levitating objects at any local poetry reading. Jessie previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #1. Enjoy more of Jessie's work at petitespirit.tumblr.com
Born in Queensland, Australia, Brett Dionysius has published four collections of poetry, two chapbooks, an artist’s book and a verse novel. He has lived in Melbourne, Brisbane and Ipswich where he is an English teacher. Brett was the founding Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival, and in his spare time watches birds. Brett previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #4.	Aidan Rowlingson is an actor, poet, director and producer based in Brisbane. A proud queer Butchulla man from K'gari (Fraser Island), Aidan has worked in classical & contemporary theatre including Henry V by Shakespeare, The Chair Plays by Edward Bond, ANTHRO APOLOGY by Alethea Beetson and Digi Youth Arts. He has also performed poetry as a part of IMA's First Thursdays, Queensland Museum's Black Out and Jungle Love Festival to name a few. Aidan previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #4.	Sober Bob is a Brisbane based zine creator, specialising in 35mm photography and comic creation. When she isn't McGyvering up her bathroom dark room, she stomps around the city and suburbs, looking for inspiration. Her varying works have been featured in Woolf Pack, Atheist Alliance International, and in shows such as Mint Condition and Hanging Affair. Sober previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #2.
Shuturp is the pseudonym of Queensland-based artist Ellie Hopley, literally wearing her heart on her sleeve through her similarly named clothing line and Instagram brand. She is dedicated to showcasing real life, and all the emotions that go along with it. Ellie previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #3.	Big Jo is from the mountains. Making sounds sets their soul on fire, as does consensual violence, pink clothing, and lying on a mate's floor drinking god knows what and writing disturbing poetry. Their richly imagistic works have seen the light of day with Pressure Gauge Press, Small Packages Journal, Ruckus Slam, and the Queensland Poetry Festival. Big Jo previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #2.	Tamara Drazic is an Australian writer based in Melbourne. In 2017, she was awarded a Gullkistan Residency for Creative People in Laugarvatn, Iceland, where she finished writing her first novel. Tamara's writing can be found in literary magazines such as Into the Void Magazine, Grouch Publishing, and in the debut issue of Vantage Point, a collaborative project by Bowen Street Press and The Lifted Brow. Tamara previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #3.
Jeremy A. Flick is native of Indianapolis, IN. He currently holds a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from Ball State University and is a MFA candidate at the University of Kentucky. Jeremy's poetry has been published in The Birds We Piled Loosely, The Broken Plate, and Pidgeonholes. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Wolf Press. Jeremy previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #3.	Leo Porter is a Creative Writing and Law student at QUT. He has been published in local zines such as Tundish Review, Veronica and PASTEL. He has performed at the Queensland Poetry Festival as part of the QUT Literary Salon. Leo previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issues #1 and #3.	Andrew McGowan is a Brisbane-based poet who is currently studying a BA with an extended major in Writing and a minor in Russian at The University of Queensland. His poetry draws on the physical, the elemental, and the gothic. His is currently working on a full-length manuscript of poetry. Andrew previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #1.

contributors

Fletcher Quilty is a postgraduate writing student at UQ. He enjoys writing short stories, poetry, and plays. His work has been published in Jacaranda, The Tundish Review, Sugarcane, and PASTEL. His short story 'The Salt Skin' received a Highly Commended at the 2016 Queensland Young Writers Awards. Fletcher's plays have been performed in UQ's Schonell Theatre, and he is a passionate advocate of community theatre and queer culture. Fletcher previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #3.	Rita Mookerjee's poetry is featured or forthcoming in Aaduna, New Delta Review, GlitterMOB, Berfrois, and Cosmonauts Avenue. Her critical work has been featured in the Routledge Companion of Literature and Food, the Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary and Cultural Theory, and the Bloomsbury Handbook of Twenty-First Century Feminist Theory.	Sarah Lew's living her best life holed up in a psychedelic sewer, making films, costumes, and puppets, bedazzling her way to greatness. Her gimp masks are the love child of her experiences as a dominatrix and costume designer. She hopes these masks inspire girls everywhere to know bank robbery isn't a boys club - you can make it fashion. Find Sarah's creations on Instagram at @shutuplewser.
Elijah Lamont wasted his youth drawing weird monsters then got old and turned into one. Now he only draws self portraits. Find his work on Instagram at @spaciousmind.	Chloe is an emerging Brisbane based writer and poet. She has done readings of her work at Avid Reader and hosted for the 2017 and 2018 Queensland Poetry Festival. Her work appears in the 2018 anthology collection Within/Without These Walls, The Tundish Review and various online publications.	Jesse Elias Christian is a business and interactive & visual design student at QUT. After being awarded a New Colombo Plan Scholarship in 2017, Jesse lived, studied and worked in Singapore and Beijing over the course of 13 months, during which he started teaching himself Chinese and wrote short poems to practice the language. Jesse's writing typically deals with themes of interculturalism, memories and attachment.
Wolfram-Jaymes von Keesing is a Masters student studying Writing, Editing, and Publishing at UQ, as well as a student partner with YEP Australia. They've written for 4ZZZ, Queef Zine, and QNews Magazine, and publish Queer!Content Comix & Zines: an indie publication with a focus on how queer folk develop their identities through interactions with media. They perform community by volunteering with The Wendybird by facilitating events that introduce people to indie publishing.	Meredith McLean is a Brisbanite, a QUT grad of Creative Writing, and is on-again-off-again doing the poetry circuits around town. She’s written plays for Vena Cava, Anywhere Festival, and reviews for online magazines, and works in an ad agency pretending she knows craft beer.	Alyse Lloyd is a Brisbane-based author of two ebooks and many yet-to-be-finished-slash-barely-started novels. She spends most of her time in her apartment pretending to write and sometimes actually writing.
Al Myer is a Newcastle-based branding specialist, with a passion for photography. Driven by a need to explore and capture his own vision of the world, he tries to give a studied composition and visual appeal to anything that he places in front of his lens. Music is his true companion when exploiting his creativity, from Bowie and Billy Joel to Queen and others.

ISSUE FOUR contributors

Daniel Uncapher is the Sparks Fellow at Notre Dame, where he recieved his MFA. His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Chicago Quarterly Review, Tin House Online, Baltimore Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Neon, and others.	Ivy Mullins is a Brisbane-based Journalism student and content creator, and one half of the brains behind Poison and Ice. She's an avid lover of polka dots, and a good book. Find Ivy at: poisonandice.com Ivy previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #1.	Harrison Minnikin is a queer 21-year-old who is desperately keen to get back into university to avoid the full-time workforce for another few years. Published in literary mags Questions and Veronica, they are now looking to expand their portfolio of speculative fiction and short stories. They are interested in the deconstruction of gender and sexuality in a modern society. Their favourite activities include reading & writing about wretched matters, and serving C.U.N.T. every hour of the day.
Ellie Taggart is a QUT student studying Creative Writing and Journalism. She loves 80's films, hoards too many books and knows the Dangerfield catalog off by heart. She was the winner of the 2016 Words Out Creative Writing Competition and you will always be able to find her with either a camera around her neck, a pencil	Jesmine Medina is a Law and Advertising student, and full time imagineer. All she does is daydream. Her passions include anime, fashion,gaming and drawing, and she is inspired by flowers, the moon, forests and streams. Creatively, she has a soft spot for RnB, love songs, and pastel pink. She often wonders, "Where are the matcha ice tea lattes?" Jesmine previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #1.	Jess Taggart is a 2nd year student studying Entertainment Industries and Journalism at QUT. When she isn't writing or taking photos, you can find her listening to retro music and eating Mexican food. Jess previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #2.
Vivienne Coburn is an eclectic writer and coffee snob. When she's not judging your eyebrows, she dreams of being a shark.	Aalia Hussein is a Creative Writing student at QUT, and is currently involved in a love triangle with samoosas and pizza. An avid reader and a hopeless procrastinator, you'll find her between the pages of a book or with her head in the clouds. She has published non-fiction in Entropy Magazine and is attempting to write her first novel.	Yozue Davila is a proud Puerto Rican, US Army Soldier, and literature student at Quinsigamond Community College, Worcester MA. Under his pseudonyms ‘Sir Drift & Mr. Pulse’, Yozue writes children’s stories and poems. ‘Sir Drift’ is the curious star child driven by science and fantasy. ‘Mr. Pulse’ is the romantic, philosophic, mysterious side of the persona. Yozue has been published in the 2016 Rusty Scythe Prize Anthology, and has appeared as a contributor on the mobile app Storytime for Kids.
Meredith McLean is a Brisbanite, a QUT grad of Creative Writing, and is on-again-off-again doing the poetry circuits around town. She’s written plays for Vena Cava, Anywhere Festival, and reviews for online magazines, and works in an ad agency pretending she knows craft beer.	Nicolette Gardiner is a full-time administration and marketing assistant. In her spare time, her hobbies include riding horses, writing stories, listening to The Greatest Showman soundtrack on repeat, and winning Trivia Nights at The Defiant Duck. Nicolette previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #1.	Lake Vargas writes poetry, fiction, and memoirs. Her work has been published by Vagabond City Lit Journal, Sea Foam Mag, and Empty Mirror, among others. She tweets at @lakewrites

ISSUE Three contributors

Raelee Lancaster is a poet currently based in Meanjin, raised on Awabakal land, with ties to the Wiradjuri nation. She works as a research assistant with an academic background in ancient history and heritage studies. Her work has featured in Rabbit, Westerly: Flux, and Voiceworks. Find Raelee at raeleejlancaster.com or @raeleelancaster	Annabelle de Paola is the co-creator of the Bronte and Annabelle zine series. She co-wrote The Repairman for the 2017 Anywhere Theatre Festival and her work has appeared in The Tundish Review, Woolfpack and Ibis. Please don’t snapchat Annabelle pictures of trolleys - she has 3 hostage in her backyard and feels shame everyday.	Daniel Sherington is an emerging Brisbane Artist working in a pen and ink medium, broaching the ideas of: Identity and what defines us; vanitas in a modern day setting; and the visual conventions and implications of spaces. Through his hyper realistic style, Daniel has achieved critical acclaim in both the RQAS Young Artist Prize in 2016, and the Contemporary Art Wards in 2018; and also exhibited in numerous shows across Brisbane. Find Daniel on Instagram at @daniel.sherington
Ankita Bellary is a writer, beach-lover and dessert-enthusiast from Brisbane, where she is currently studying law and writing at UQ. She enjoys exploring suburban life, her cultural heritage, family, and the natural environment in her work. Her poetry has been published in Pencilled In, The Tundish Review, and Djed Press.	Sam Bolte is a writing student at QUT in his hometown of Brisbane. His chief focus is poetry and literary fiction with roots in the Gothic. Sam's poems have been published in The Tundish Review, PASTEL Magazine, and have also been presented at the QUT Literary Salon. Personal heroes include Canadian short fiction author Alice Munro, American filmmaker David Lynch, and Scottish poet Kathleen Raine. Characters and their interactions with landscape and memory play a role in all of Sam's work.	David Rodriguez is a photographer from Spain. He likes to photograph people, and looks for risky compositions, with a touch of surrealism. Works like those of Man Ray, Erwin Blumenfield or Guy Bourdin inspire him immensely. Find David at: flickr.com/photos/daviguez David previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #1.
Antonia D'Orazio is based in Bremen, Germany. Her work is largely a social satire about the model of the “New World Order”. Find Antonia on Instagram as @bizarrofive	Gabrielle Slater is an architecture student who, (after spending hours on end drafting on CAD) decided she should translate her love of illustration to the digital realm. She’s fascinated by the human form and the weird and wonderful creatures that we encounter. She juxtaposes elements that would not normally be found together in the same environment to create her quirky imagery. Find Gabrielle’s portfolio at gabrielleslater.myportfolio.com	Elly-Grace Rinaldis writes as a means of escape to her Greek summer fantasies. Watch This Space is her blog where she delights you in poetry and travel memoirs as she sips on pinot noir. Find Elly-Grace at: watchthisspace.weebly.com Elly-Grace previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #1.
Linda is a Pennsylvanian native, raised in the rural town of Conneautville. Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has five published chapbooks: A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (2013), Less Than A Man (2014), If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars Publications, 2016), My Wings Were Made to Fly (2017), and Splintered With Terror (2018). Linda previously appeared in PASTEL Magazine Issue #1.

ISSUE TWO contributors

Seigar is an English philologist, a high-school teacher, and a curious photographer based in Tenerife, Spain. He is a fetishist for reflections, saturated colours, details, and religious icons. Travelling is his inspiration. He has participated in several exhibitions in Tenerife, and his works have also been featured in international publications.	Katelyn Goyen is a Brisbane based writer of predominantly poetry and short prose. She co-edits poetry ‘zine The Tundish Review and has previously had work featured in Pressure Gauge Press and Woolf Pack.	Emma Campbell is a Gold Coast-based writer and student at QUT. Previously a writer for Marriott Resorts, Emma has recently turned her focus from travel articles to freelance fiction and poetry. In her spare time, you can find Emma in the ocean, playing her guitar, or cafe-hopping in search of the best banana bread and coffee.
Raquel Garcia Hernandez is an English philologist, school teacher and curious, 'attracted-by-intimate-scenes' photographer. Always restless and dreamy, she found in photography the door peephole to discover others and herself. She feels passion towards suggestivity, which invites us to imagine the intimacy that we only let 'our chosen' discover.	Taylor-Anne Mordoh is an illustrator, cat lady, and sometimes pretend historian native to the sunshine state. She is inspired by all things vintage, whimsical shapes and irreverent patterns. In her free time, she enjoys trolling thift stores for inspiration, yoga and mastering all medias of art. Find Taylor-Anne at: taylorannemordoh.com	Nick van Buuren lives and writes in his hometown of Brisbane. His work is mostly about getting angry at old men and not knowing what to do about it. His poems have appeared with Bareknuckle Poet, sugarcane and Jacaranda. He is also the co-editor and founder of Brisbane based literary zine, The Tundish Review.
Ysabelle Alesna is a second-year journalism student at QUT. Before moving to Australia, she lived in the Philippines, where she dealt with numerous heartbreaks and crushes. Now, you can find her at small cafes around Brisbane, or at Dymocks pondering over a stack of books she probably won't buy.

ISSUE ONE contributors

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