“When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
— Audre Lorde.
Meet Mich
Mich McSavage is an award winning, gender-defying, multi-disciplinary artist.
A Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) graduate from The Victorian College of the Arts (2020) and a Pisces, when they’re not crying, they’re writing about it. In 2026, McSavage was selected as a Mother Tongue Spoken Word Fellow, invited as guest poet for The Victorian Pride Centres Pride in Poetry, Wicked Words (2026) and T4T (Melbourne Fringe, 2025).
McSavage most recently performed in the role of Holly in three time award winning play Ballkids (Or, Scenes From A Friendship) at fortyfivedownstairs (2026). McSavage also directed multi-award winning play Poems of A Transsexual Nature (Malthouse, 2026) and was nominated for Best Emerging Artist and Best Theatre Awards (Melbourne Fringe, 2023) for their solo, debut show night sweat.
Meet Tayla
Tayla is a poet, multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, actor and disability advocate living on Bunurong land. She creates to connect and untangle perceptions of ambiguous loss, hope and impermanence, drawing on her experience living with a rare neuromuscular condition.
A former dancer and student midwife, a current dog mum and theatre enthusiast. Her work has featured in International Film Festivals, RUSSH and In Crowd magazines, Writers Victoria, Emerging Writer’s Festival, The Grieve Project, Poetry D’Amour, The Suburban Review, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of a 2026 with Varuna the National Writers Centre, The Wheeler’s Centre and Mother Tongue Poetry Fellowships. She is currently writing an interdisciplinary poetry memoir.
Meet Pep
Pep Phelan (she/her) is a Koorie, vision-impaired, queer scholar, artist, writer, poet, photographer, fungi enthusiast, and professional collector of random facts.
Neurospicy to the core, she's currently obsessed with photography and fungi — both separately, and together, and has the tattoos to prove it. When she's not deep in a bilby hole of weird and wonderful knowledge, Pep can usually be found with her dog sidekick Reggie, an iced coffee in hand, and far too much hyperfocus and enthusiasm for whatever has captured her rage or curiosity this week.
Pep’s work can be found in Archer Magazine, and throughout a range of academic journals and publications from across the globe.
