Local artist-of-words Gemma Nethercote-Way will read alongside Sydney poet, teacher, editor and event organiser Toby Fitch.

Toby Fitch is poetry editor for Overland and a mercenary in the teaching of creative writing at the University of Sydney. His books of poetry include Rawshock, which won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry 2012; Jerilderies; The Bloomin’ Notions of Other & Beau; ILL LIT POP; and, most recently, Where Only the Sky had Hung Before (Vagabond Press 2019) and Object Permanence: Selected Calligrammes (Penteract Press UK 2019). He lives in Newtown, Sydney, with his girlfriend and their two daughters.

Gemma Nethercote Way is a student at the University of Canberra, where she is about to commence Honours in poetry. Gemma has a particular interest in writing about women - both real and mythical - who have been marginalised or silenced.
Her work has been published in Meniscus and Not Very Quiet, and in 2019 she was shortlisted for the Anne Edgeworth Fellowship. She lives in north Canberra and works at a lovely little bookshop.

Evening begins with an open mic.