The Red Room Company is a non-profit organisation based in Sydney, Australia. Its aim is to "create, promote and distribute poetry by new and emerging Australian writers to the public in unusual ways." It was established by Johanna Featherstone in 2002, emerging from the Red Room Radio Show, which broadcast on 89.7FM Eastside Radio

Eastside Radio

Eastside Radio is a community radio station based in Paddington and broadcasting to the Eastern suburbs of Sydney. This includes the municipalities of Botany Bay, Randwick, Waverley, Woollahra and the City of Sydney....

 from 2001.

The Company fulfills its aims by creating alternative forms of poetry publication, such as radio, video, and new media.

Current projects

• Papercuts is the name for The Red Room Company's poetry education program which, with generous support from the Keir Foundation and the Ian Potter Foundation, was piloted in four NSW high schools during 2007. In 2008 it was expanded into Victoria and in 2009-2010 moved further interstate to Norfolk Island and Queensland schools. Papercuts focuses on Australian poetry and poetry's role in contemporary society. Written and implemented in conjunction with teachers, students and professionals in the education sector, our program has the potential to transform the way poetry is taught and experienced in Australian schools. Our education program is based around a single Red Room project we have already implemented successfully in the public sphere. For the 2009-2010 program we offered schools the options of The Cabinet of Lost and Found, originally presented at the 2006 Sydney Writers' Festival
  Sydney Writers' Festival
  The Sydney Writers' Festival is an annual literary festival held in the Australian city of Sydney. The Festival's artistic director is Chip Rolley.-History:...
  
  , and Toilet Doors, a project featured in 2004 and 2006.

In November 2010, KPMG hosted a Papercuts 'poetic excursion' to promote the program. A small anthology was printed, and Papercuts continues to grow in 2011. Papercuts is currently the only national poetry program available to high school students across Australia, unique in that it is designed to be a flexible unit of study that matches syllabus teaching and learning outcomes with the creative development and expression of students, through exposure to practising Australian poets. This exposure to contemporary poetic practise provides a level of insight that cannot be achieved through other means, allowing students to interrogate the process, as well as the end product, of their own and others' works. Our view of the importance and potential of poetry has been endorsed by students, teachers, poets, and education professionals, as well as by our benefactors.

• Sun Herald 'Extra' Poems sees poets old and new submitting their work to The Red Room Company for publication in the 'Extra' section of the Sun Herald. In 2009 the Sun Herald asked The Red Room Company to collect poems from their archive to be featured over the summer. Since then the focus has shifted to publishing writing from young and emerging Red Room collaborators.

• Stacks is The Red Room Company’s poetry-in-libraries series in 2011. A series of poetry readings and workshops for students and the general public, will be held in City of Sydney Libraries, facilitated by eminent Australian poets. Each workshop will make use of the collections and physical spaces unique to each library. Participants will experience new ways to approach poetry as readers, writers and library users. On 7 April Andy Quan
  Andy Quan
  Andy Quan , is a Chinese-Canadian author who now lives in Sydney, Australia. In his writing, he frequently explores the ways in which sexual identity and cultural identity interact...
  
   will host a poetry workshop at Surry Hills Library, on 13 April Judith Bishop hosts a kids' poetry workshop at Glebe Library, on 7 May Eileen Chong hosts a poetry translation workshop at Ultimo library and on 13 May Toby Fitch hosts a poetry workshop at Kings Cross Library.

• Unlocked explores the transformative powers of poetry and literacy by running a series of workshops in Dyllwinia and John Morony Correctional Centres. The workshops, which ran into early November, were facilitated by Sydney poets Gareth Jenkins and Lindsay Tuggle, with guest performances and readings from Philip Hammial and Rob Wilson. Unlocked has offered an exciting opportunity for The Red Room Company to really explore the social value of poetry and creative expression; its transformative and regenerative qualities. The project has been developed in collaboration with Corrections NSW Audiovisual Unit, 2SER's Jailbreak radio show and education staff at both centres. The first Unlocked special on the Jailbreak radio show was broadcast on 25 January 2011. 1 December 2010, marked the launch of the Unlocked Anthology, showcasing the work of students, educational staff and facilitating poets, produced throughout the Unlocked project. More radio, film and anthologies can be expected in 2011.

• ATYP Workshops sees The Red Room Company pairing up with the Australian theatre for young people to teach young actors how to read poetry. Saturday 4 December 2010 was the first day of what will be an ongoing collaboration between the australian theatre for young people and The Red Room Company. The project consists of a series of workshops between contemporary Australian poets and the young actors involved with atyp, teaching them about poetry, how to read it and how to recite it. It is an intense, intimate process in which the actors spend time one-on-one with the poets, sharing insights about the writing and performing process. These workshops may feed into further projects involving collaborations between poets and actors.

• Clubs & Socs is one of The Red Room Company's major projects for 2011, pairing contemporary poets with clubs and societies from across Australia. One poet from each state and territory will be partnered with a broad range of clubs and societies representing Australia's diverse cultural landscape. Astronomers, hackers, stamp collectors, crochet clubs, anyone can get involved in this project. The commissioned poets will become members of the club, attend meetings and events, learn to speak the language of its people. This experience will then inform a new poetic work. For the purposes of this project The Red Room Co. defines poetry broadly, so the works may take the form of collaborative installations, visual or audio works, or performances.

Past Projects

Past Projects include:

• Sea Things saw four new poems commissioned from poets in Hobart, Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin, and from secondary school students in Perth, Darwin and Thursday Island, as the project charted a seafaring odyssey up the East and West coasts of Australia - and back again via the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The poems, carried in two duffle bags, made the journey in private, commercial and naval vessels from October to November 2009, travelling from all five ports, to Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. Along the way, members of the public, writers' groups and schools added incidental sketches, poems and literary souvenirs. A logbook was kept by the ship captains to record weather and marine sightings along the way. The bags were met on Thursday Island by the local community, and The Red Room Company was there to hold a school poetry workshop and to film the reception. Sea Things poems, the fact sheet, images and documentary can be viewed at: http://redroomcompany.org/projects/sea-things/. An official 'opening' of the duffle bag was held in Sydney in November 2009, along with a screening of documentary footage from the project. From March - June 2011, an installation of the trips 'poetic cargo' is on display in the window of the Australian Council for the Arts at 372 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, Sydney. The exhibition was arranged by Sydney visual artist Miriam Chatt.

• Poetry for Governor Macquarie involved the The Red Room Company in partnership with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Macquarie Fields High School to celebrate Governor Lachlan Macquarie
  Lachlan Macquarie
  Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB , was a British military officer and colonial administrator. He served as the last autocratic Governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1810 to 1821 and had a leading role in the social, economic and architectural development of the colony...
  
  's Bicentenary. Poet Lachlan Brown led a select group of students from Macquarie Fields High School in interpreting Macquarie’s well-known inauguration speech as part of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Open Day on 28 March 2010. This project invited the poet and students to utilise the Conservatorium as the site of a musical society that was uniquely shaped by Macquarie’s vision. Through a series of workshops students created their own poems and performed these pieces at the unveiling of the Macquarie statue at the opening ceremony. The Con Open Day celebrations featured outdoor back-to-back concerts all day, featuring a variety of musical genres and styles. The Greenway Building hosted mini concerts, an instrument petting zoo, roving minstrels, mini-talks on all kinds of musical research and study, a self-guided treasure hunt and theatrical performances focused around Governor Lachlan Macquarie and Mrs Elizabeth Macquarie Bicentenary Celebrations. The Red Room first worked with Macquarie Fields High School in 2009 as part of our Papercuts education program.

• The Poet's Life Works was a series of performances and installations featuring four high-impact Australian poets. Showcasing a different poet each month, the project presented four events in various spaces around Sydney, exploring each poet's life through objects, music and visual interpretations by four contemporary artists from Chalkhorse Gallery. The series was launched by Queensland poet, MTC Cronin who also delivered the 2009 minislec at the Sydney Writers' Festival
  Sydney Writers' Festival
  The Sydney Writers' Festival is an annual literary festival held in the Australian city of Sydney. The Festival's artistic director is Chip Rolley.-History:...
  
  . In June, the project delved into the deep, ironic, angry, laconic and spirited poetry of Tasmanian poet, Tim Thorne
  Tim Thorne
  Tim Thorne is a contemporary Australian poet.Thorne lives in Launceston, Tasmania. He is the author of ten volumes of poetry, the most recent being Best Bitter in 2006 and I Con in 2008....
  
  . Internationally recognised poet, critic, philosopher and theologian, Kevin Hart, inspired the third event held at St James Church, Sydney, in July. Hart spoke about the place of faith in his life's work, the theme and exploration of death through poetry, and the choice of lyricism over politics. The fourth and final event in the series celebrated the life of Murri poet and activist Lionel Fogarty
  Lionel Fogarty
  Lionel Fogarty is an Indigenous Australian poet and political activist.He was born in 1958 at Barambah in Queensland where he grew up. He has been involved in Aboriginal activism from his teenage years, mainly in Southern Queensland on issues such as Land Rights, Aboriginal health and deaths in...
  
  . Fogarty is a leading spokesman for Indigenous rights in Australia, particularly deaths in custody following the death of his brother, Daniel Yock, at the hands of police in 1993.

• Dust Poems http://dustpoems.com/ explored the words of truckies and their experiences of the road, showcasing the language that carries truckies’ unique perspectives on Australian life (and death), landscapes, foibles, practices, fauna, flora and humanity. At the same time, the project paid tribute to the men, women, families and animals who ply the highways and byways of this vast and awesome nation and help keep the country running. The project commissioned three truck-driving poets David J. Delaney, Mick O'Brien
  Mick O'Brien
  Michael Terence O'Brien , commonly referred to as Mick O'Brien, was an Irish footballer and coach whose career took him to at least seventeen different clubs. A well built six footer, O'Brien was highly regarded as a centre-half. O'Brien was a dual international and played for both Ireland teams -...
  
  , Olivia Richardson and three professional poets, Brendan Ryan
  Brendan Ryan
  Brendan Ryan is an Irish politician and former member of Seanad Éireann for the National University of Ireland constituency...
  
  , Lindsay Tuggle, Judith Bishop
  Judith Bishop
  Judith Bishop is a contemporary Australian poet, linguist and translator.-Biography:Judith Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. She holds a DPhil from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne. In 1994 she received the Rae and Edith Bennett...
  
   who work in non-trucking industries. These poems were exhibited in interactive ways at Sydney Olympic Park from March to June 2009.

• The Sound and Text Files, was an online archive of poems and interviews with poets, as well as related project material. This educational, and artistic resource was supported by ArtsNSW.

• Red Room Radio was an in-studio series, where individual poets were commissioned to write a poem for community radio broadcast and online access, as integrated podcasts. Each session profiled new and established poets, or individuals who work with or have interesting views on poetry, such as readers, publishers, filmmakers, farmers and scholars, and was followed by an informal chat with the live audience.

• Pigeon Poetry http://pigeonpoetry.com/ commissioned eight poets from across the country to each write a poem that would be raced by thoroughbred pigeons on 3 August 2008. The birds homed from Stanwell Tops to Mt Ousley on NSW's South Coast, covering about 60 km between 15 and 20 minutes. A virtual booking system documented the project, poets and poems. Poets included Brook Emery, Robert Adamson
  Robert Adamson (poet)
  Robert Adamson is an Australian poet and publisher.-Biography:Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay and spent much of his teenage years in Gosford Boys Home for juvenile offenders. He discovered poetry while educating himself in Gaol in his 20s. His first book, Canticles on the Skin, was published in 1970...
  
  , Ivy Ireland, Andy Quan
  Andy Quan
  Andy Quan , is a Chinese-Canadian author who now lives in Sydney, Australia. In his writing, he frequently explores the ways in which sexual identity and cultural identity interact...
  
  , Alan Gould
  Alan Gould
  Alan Gould is a contemporary Australian novelist and poet.Born in London Alan Gould's family lived in Northern Ireland, Germany and Singapore before arriving in Australia in 1966. He completed a BA at Australian National University and a Diploma of Education at the then Canberra College of...
  
  , Craig Sherborne, Kate Fagan and Anthony Lawrence
  Anthony Lawrence
  -Biography:Born in Tamworth, New South Wales, Anthony Lawrence left school at 16, and has worked variously as a jackeroo, fisherman, teacher and writer. Lawrence has received a number of Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board Grants and has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the...
  
  .

• Nightwriting drew attention to poetry as an art that requires few external materials to exist; it encouraged people to use all their senses to explore poetic language. The project featured Mike Ladd
  Mike Ladd
  Mike Ladd is a hip-hop MC and producer. As an MC, he practices spoken-word and is known for his poetic lyrics. As a producer, he is known as the owner of the Likemadd label.-Biography:...
  
  , Lachlan Brown and Esther Ottoway with British poet, Jacob Polley
  Jacob Polley
  Jacob Polley is a British poet, born in Carlisle, Cumbria.He graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in 1997....
  
   delivering the mineslec. The poem-pod installation, designed by Camilla Lawson – was a trio of walk-in booths fitted with audio Braille and tactile alphabet versions of an original poem. The project premiered at the 2008 Sydney Writers' Festival
  Sydney Writers' Festival
  The Sydney Writers' Festival is an annual literary festival held in the Australian city of Sydney. The Festival's artistic director is Chip Rolley.-History:...
  
   and later toured to the 2008 Tasmanian Writers' Festival.

• Sustainable Sydney, a partnership with the City of Sydney
  City of Sydney
  The City of Sydney is the Local Government Area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia...
  
   council, and Art and About. Eight poets ran workshops in schools in inner Sydney, collecting the words and visions of students about Sydney in 2030. They then used these to write five-line poems, illustrated with the students’ images, and displayed on public buildings in Sydney.

• Occasional Poetry, an installation of poems, dressmakers dummies, and related costumes at the 2007 Sydney Writers' Festival
  Sydney Writers' Festival
  The Sydney Writers' Festival is an annual literary festival held in the Australian city of Sydney. The Festival's artistic director is Chip Rolley.-History:...
  
  . Writing about fashion, the slogan, and dressing for an occasion were Australian poets Claire Potter, Adam Aitken and Greg McLaren
  Greg McLaren
  Greg McLaren is an Australian poet. Born in the New South Wales Hunter Valley coalfields town, Kurri Kurri. He moved to Sydney in 1990 where he studied at the University of Sydney and in 2005 he was awarded a PhD in Australian Literature. His thesis was on Buddhist influences on the Australian...
  
  . Drawing on the disguises and wit of Gwen Harwood
  Gwen Harwood
  Gwen Harwood AO , née Gwendoline Nessie Foster, was an Australian poet and librettist. Gwen Harwood is regarded as one of Australia's finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and 13 librettos. She won numerous poetry awards and prizes...
  
  , the project muse, poet and editor Pam Brown
  Pam Brown
  Pam Brown is an Australian poet.- Career :Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria, and her childhood was spent in on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has mostly lived in Sydney...
  
   also delivered the mineslec at the project launch, and online.

• The Poetry Picture Show, a series of poems on the theme of film and the moving picture. These were accompanied by filmic interpretations of the poem, directed by Johanna Featherstone, and a project blog, all of which are hosted on the Red Room website The poems were written by John Tranter
  John Tranter
  John Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...
  
  , Nathan Shepherdson, JS Harry, David Prater, Emma Jones
  Emma Jones (poet)
  Emma Jones is an Australian poet. Her first poetry collection, The Striped World, was published by Faber & Faber in 2009.Jones was raised in Concord, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. Her father was Australian; her British mother had emigrated to Australia...
  
  , Ivy Alvarez
  Ivy Alvarez
  Ivy Alvarez is an award-winning Filipino Australian poet, editor, and reviewer currently residing in Wales. A prolific writer, Alvarez has had her work featured in various publications in Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Wales, the USA, South Africa, and...
  
  , Kate Lilley
  Kate Lilley
  -Early life:Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley....
  
  , Briohny Doyle, Felicity Plunkett and SJ Holland-Batt
  Sarah Holland-Batt
  Sarah Holland-Batt is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.-Biography:Born in Southport, Queensland, Sarah Holland-Batt grew up in Australia and the United States. She was educated at the University of Queensland, where she received First Class Honours in Literary Studies and an MPhil in...
  
  .

• The Cabinet of Lost and Found, an installation of poems, and the personal objects that inspired them at the 2006 Sydney Writers' Festival
  Sydney Writers' Festival
  The Sydney Writers' Festival is an annual literary festival held in the Australian city of Sydney. The Festival's artistic director is Chip Rolley.-History:...
  
  . The featured poets, Ella Holcombe, Emily Ballou
  Emily Ballou
  Emily Ballou is an Australian-American poet, novelist and screenwriter. Her first poetry collection The Darwin Poems, a verse portrait of Charles Darwin, was published by University of Western Australia Press in 2009...
  
  , Alicia Sometimes, Luke Icarus Simon and Ben Michell.

• The Wordshed, a series of six half-hour television programmes, about all kinds of writers, reading and creative processes. The Wordshed was broadcast on Television Sydney
  Television Sydney
  TVS, or Television Sydney , is a free-to-air community television station broadcasting in Sydney, Australia.-History:Transmissions officially commenced on analogue UHF channel 31 in February 2006 after three months of technical trials...
  
   in collaboration with the University of Western Sydney
  University of Western Sydney
  The University of Western Sydney, also known as UWS, is a multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
  
  ’s Writing and Society Research Group. Featured writers included David Malouf
  David Malouf
  David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...
  
  , Delia Falconer
  Delia Falconer
  Delia Falconer is the author of a novel, The Service of Clouds and a novella, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers. She has been described by Australian critic Peter Craven, in Best Australian Stories 1999, as “the young Australian writer who has arguably done most to put her signature on the literature...
  
  , Sonya Hartnett
  Sonya Hartnett
  Sonya Hartnett is an Australian author.Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, Trouble All the Way, at the age of thirteen...
  
  , Catherine Rey, Brian Castro
  Brian Castro
  Brian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....
  
  , Luke Davies
  Luke Davies
  Luke Davies is an Australian writer of novels, poetry and screenplays, born in Sydney in 1962.Davies' first poetry collection, Four Plots for Magnets, was published in 1982, when he was twenty....
  
  , John Tranter
  John Tranter
  John Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...
  
  , Christos Tsiolkas
  Christos Tsiolkas
  -Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....
  
  , Peter Goldsworthy
  Peter Goldsworthy
  Peter Goldsworthy AM is an Australian writer and medical practitioner. He has won awards for his short stories, poetry, novels, and opera libretti....
  
  , Anna Kerdijk Nicholson, Jane Gibian, Ivor Indyk, Ashley Hay and Samuel Wagan Watson
  Samuel Wagan Watson
  Samuel Wagan Watson is a contemporary Indigenous Australian poet.Samuel Wagan Watson was born in Brisbane, his family is Irish, German, Bundjalung and Birri Gubba...
  
  .

• Poetry Crimes, new Australian poems on the theme of crime and justice. This project, launched at http://www.hht.net.au/museums/jp/justice_and_police_TheJustice and Police Museum, featured poems and interviews with poets Jennifer Maiden
  Jennifer Maiden
  Jennifer Maiden is a contemporary Australian poet.Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith, New South Wales. She began publishing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s...
  
  , Jaya Savige
  Jaya Savige
  Jaya Savige is a contemporary Australian poet, critic and editor.- Biography :Born in Sydney, Savige grew up in Queensland, on Bribie Island and in Brisbane, boarding at Nudgee College. He attended the University of Queensland, where, after withdrawing from an LLB/BCom, he received a University...
  
  , Ian C Smith, Alan Wearne
  Alan Wearne
  Alan Wearne is an Australian poet.Alan Wearne was born and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott...
  
  , Jennifer Compton, Justin Lowe, Brenda Saunders, Chris Edwards, Kate Middleton, Ian McBryde and A Frances Johnson.

• Toilet Doors Poetry, a series of illustrated poem posters for display on the backs of public toilet doors. This public space project, featuring the work of emerging writers, aimed to put poetry back into public life and public places, and ran in 2004 and 2006. In 2004, poets included Bonny Cassidy, Gerard Elson, Elena Knox, Fiona Wright, Jonathan Jaques and Michael Brennan. In 2006, the posters featured Elizabeth Allen, Andrew Slattery, Keri Glastonbury, Lisa Gorton, Liam Ferney
  Liam Ferney
  Liam Ferney is a Brisbane poet whose work has been published widely in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. His first collection of poetry, Popular Mechanics , was published in 2004....
  
   and Ed Wright. Through a partnership with The Letter Corporation, the 2006 poem posters were displayed in Greater Union
  Greater Union
  Greater Union, Birch Carroll and Coyle, Event Cinemas, Skycity Cinemas and Damodar Village Cinemas together form a chain of cinema multiplexes across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji...
  
   cinemas and Qantas
  Qantas
  Qantas Airways Limited is the flag carrier of Australia. The name was originally "QANTAS", an initialism for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". Nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo", the airline is based in Sydney, with its main hub at Sydney Airport...
  
   domestic terminals across Australia. This project also included the first mineslec, a poetic public address, delivered by Bronwyn Lea
  Bronwyn Lea
  Bronwyn Lea is a contemporary Australian poet, academic and editor.-Biography:Born in Tasmania, Bronwyn Lea grew up in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, moving to San Diego to study at California State University...
  
    Toilet Door Poetry has been partially funded by the Australia Council
  Australia Council
  The Australia Council, informally known as the Australia Council for the Arts, is the official arts council or arts funding body of the Government of Australia.-Function:...
  
  .

• Fingerprints, a collection of hand-written poems and poet portraits, exhibited at the Sydney Writers' Festival
  Sydney Writers' Festival
  The Sydney Writers' Festival is an annual literary festival held in the Australian city of Sydney. The Festival's artistic director is Chip Rolley.-History:...
  
   in 2004. Participants included David Malouf
  David Malouf
  David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...
  
  , Jordie Albiston
  Jordie Albiston
  Jordie Albiston is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.Jordie Albiston grew up in Melbourne, and studied flute at the Victorian College of the Arts before completing a PhD in literature. Her first collection of poems, Nervous Arcs, won the Mary Gilmore Award, received runner-up in the Anne...
  
  , John Clarke, Mia Dyson
  Mia Dyson
  Mia Dyson is an Australian singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She shot to fame with her 2003 album Cold Water and her subsequent follow-up album, Parking Lots, which won "Best Blues & Roots album" at the 2005 ARIA Awards....
  
  , Lucy Holt, and Annaliese Porter, with artworks by Tonnee Messiah.

The Red Room Company Board and Staff

The Red Room Company's directors are Bret Walker

Bret Walker

Bret William Walker SC is one of Australia's leading barristers, stationed at Fifth Floor St James' Hall Chambers.-Education:Walker was educated at The King's School in Sydney. He graduated with degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney.-Career:Walker was admitted to the NSW bar in...

 (chairperson), Libby Davidson, Matthew McCarron, Eliott Wheeler, Jane Thorn and Johanna Featherstone.

The Red Room Company's patron is John B Fairfax AO.

The Red Room Company's permanent staff includes Johanna Featherstone (Artistic Director), Tamryn Bennett (Administrator and Copywriter), Joel Scott (Editor and Copywriter) and Tony Britten (Education Officer).

Poets

The Red Room Company has collaborated with a huge number of poets down the years. Prominent names include Judith Beveridge

Judith Beveridge

Judith Beveridge is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic.-Biography:Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration...

, Bonny Cassidy, Eileen Chong, Tricia Dearborn, Brook Emery, Kate Fagan, Mike Ladd

Mike Ladd

Mike Ladd is a hip-hop MC and producer. As an MC, he practices spoken-word and is known for his poetic lyrics. As a producer, he is known as the owner of the Likemadd label.-Biography:...

, David Malouf

David Malouf

David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...

, Greg McLaren

Greg McLaren

Greg McLaren is an Australian poet. Born in the New South Wales Hunter Valley coalfields town, Kurri Kurri. He moved to Sydney in 1990 where he studied at the University of Sydney and in 2005 he was awarded a PhD in Australian Literature. His thesis was on Buddhist influences on the Australian...

, Derek Motion, Andy Quan, Craig Sherborne, Sandra Thibodeaux, John Tranter

John Tranter

John Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...

and Fiona Wright.

A full list of poets can be found at the Red Room Company's website