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Ana Constantinou

Ana Constantinou is an emerging writer living on Bunurong land. She loves a perfectly made cup of tea, is worried about the rise of fascism globally and years ago lived in an ashram. Ana is a cis, autistic, woman living with MS. Her poems have been: awarded Runner Up, and another Shortlisted, in the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize 2026; Commended in the Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize 2025; shortlisted in the fRiction Poetry Prize 2025; Longlisted in the Liquid Amber Press Poetry Prize 2024; and, published in Cordite, Locative and various other publications.

whopping. great. waltz.

I step out. ready. in my new dress. my slicked-up shoes. feeling good. with my coral. lipstick. my first hint of. blush. like my friend. showed me. to make the cheek bones. stick out. like a model she. told me. …

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naked

powdered concrete. quashes/fills mouth. eyes. ears. nose. blood. milked by missiles. ’til it. dampens the earth. a father. likens extracting the body. of. his. son. to pulling. out the root of his heart. his heart. his heart in the. dirt …

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