Credits
Tell Me Like You Mean It v8, 2026 is an annual emerging poets’ digital chapbook published by Australian Poetry (AP) in partnership with Cordite Publishing Inc.
Copyright 2026 by Australian Poetry Ltd and Cordite Publishing Inc.
TMLYMI is published with the funding support of Creative Australia Multi-Year Investment funding.
Editorial:
Guest Editor and Cordite Managing Editor: Alex Creece
AP Publisher: Melinda Bufton
AP TMLYMI 2026 Volume Editor, Freelance: Jacinta Le Plastrier
AP Editorial Associate / Social Media Manager: Jennifer Nguyen
Alex Creece is a writer, editor, poet, collage artist and average kook living on Wadawurrung land. Alex is the Managing Editor of
Cordite Poetry Review and an Online Editor at
Archer Magazine, and her writing has been widely published. She has been awarded fellowships with Varuna, Writers Victoria, Arts Access Australia, The Wheeler Centre and Midsumma Pathways. Her work has been shortlisted for the Kat Muscat Fellowship, the Next Chapter Scheme, the Geelong Writers Prize, the Born Writers Award, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize,
Overland's Judith Wright Poetry Prize (twice) and the Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Award. Alex is the author of
Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth (Cordite Books, 2024), which was highly commended in the Five Islands Poetry Prize.
http://www.creecedpaper.com/
