By Gayle Kennedy. Read by Victoria Kennedy. Gayle Kennedy is an award-winning writer, speaker and presenter and proud member of the Wongaibon clan of south-west NSW. This  poem is her response to an exhibition of Carved Trees at the State Library of NSW. It is read by, her sister, Victoria Kennedy, also a proud member of the Wongaibon clan of south-west NSW, an actor and health professional. First published by Red Room Poetry (redroomcompany.org). 

Spoken story by Nea Worrell. Nea tells the story of her mother Esme, who learnt about nursing on the job in the bush hospital at Baradine.

Poetry written and read by Wart. Wart (aka Jen Waterhouse) plays with text like it's paint. She has lived as an artist working in the visual and performing arts in Sydney since 1980. She has consistently exhibited and worked as an illustrator, designer, cartoonist, painter and performer.

By Arna Radovich. Read by Bellatrix Scott. A climate change ‘survivor’ shelters in an archaic coal shaft with five other women, one in the process of giving birth. ‘The light flickers and fades and we feel shame—for all we didn’t do when we still had time.’ 

By Ruth Melville. Read by Bellatrix Scott. Jess finds herself speaking of crimes and misdemeanours from a much earlier age, those belonging to a six, ten, twelve-year-old. Those, evidently, belonging to her.

By Kerry Reed-Gibert. Read by Teena McCarthy. This moving stolen generations story was written by Kerry Reed-Gilbert who sadly passed in 2019. Kerry was an author, poet, activist, Elder, Wiradjuri warrior and inaugural chairperson of the First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN). The story was published by Us Mob Writing. It is read by Italian Barkindji artist and poet Teena McCarthy, who also performed it live at Voices of Women in 2019. 

Poetry written and read by Wart. Wart (aka Jen Waterhouse) plays with text like it's paint. She has lived as an artist working in the visual and performing arts in Sydney since 1980. She has consistently exhibited and worked as an illustrator, designer, cartoonist, painter and performer.

By Danae Sweetapple. Read by Claudette Clarke. In a comedic take on ordering a coffee with her blind/vision impaired friend, Australian Paralympic medallist Danae Sweetapple fesses up about living with an 'inconvenient' disability.

By Lisa Speare. Read by Meg Clarke. ‘As thankful as the return of memories after ECT, as separated as a single bed ‘. Waiting for Christmas lunch, Lisa reflects on the accumulation of a life. Lisa Speare writes and publishes graphic novels, and works with writers of the Brisbane street zine Modern Movement and local zine proiects.

By Sian Darling. Read by Claudette Clarke. ‘Flesh and fat were luxuries of childhood, in that window before starvation was understood.’ On the road out of Auschwitz after liberation, a woman examines the state of her body.

By Kerry Littrich. Read by Bellatrix Scott. ‘I lean close to breathe in the scent of her, to smell that private place where only a mother should nuzzle her child.’ Sissy has just one hour to connect with her baby daughter.

By Alex Smee. Read by Claudette Clarke. Alex takes a walk into that shaky space just outside the world, where we think we’re alone and we avoid cracks in the sidewalk and odd numbers. Alex Smee worked as West Kimberley ABC Open Producer writing creative content for online, radio and TV platforms for over a decade, and helped establish Broome’s first writers’ festival. Now living on Moa Island in the Torres Strait she publishes a regular blog of stories.

By Rowena Wiseman. Read by Meg Clarke. ‘Be grateful. You’re special, but you’re easy to replace.’ A 15-year old girl is lured into a rich man’s playground. Rowena Wiseman writes contemporary fiction, young adult, micro fiction and poetry, is the author of The Replacement Wife (HarperCollins, 2015), Bequest (Tenebris Books, 2014) and Searching for Von Honningsbergs (longlisted for the 2007 Australian Vogel Award). Her poetry is published in Quadrant magazine.

By Alison Crooks. Read by Claudette Clarke. ‘Christopher, Christopher! I told you not to leave the playground.’ Alison is a Darwin-based blog and podcast writer who often draws on her educational background working with First Nations, refugees and migrant communities for her writing.

Poetry written and read by Wart. Wart (aka Jen Waterhouse) plays with text like it's paint. She has lived as an artist working in the visual and performing arts in Sydney since 1980. She has consistently exhibited and worked as an illustrator, designer, cartoonist, painter and performer.

By Anna Lea Luna-Raven. Read by Meg Clarke. ‘Because you were bad‐mouthing me not in the most discreet of ways but by being oh‐so‐unbelievably‐fake‐plastic‐boobs‐charming while you’re at it.’ What happens when Chloe’s friendship with her girlfriend disintegrates? Anna Leah Luna - Raven's works include: “…oh, i don’t know…”published on an online literary journal, Lite Lit One, and “cab thoughts: EMP-ty” published on an LGBTIQA+ magazine, Bent Street 3 Rea

By Adele Strange. Read by Bellatrix Scott. ‘Please look for me … and when you find me … please be my friend.’ A young woman is obsessed with the likes and followers on her social media account. Adele is excited to have her work presented for the first time at Voices of Women.