Verity La is an independent Australian literary journal publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual art, reviews and interviews from around the world.

What have we done? And why? Join my Thursday plunge into the history of the state we're in...

My personal Substack

My personal Substack

"And by now I don't need a fucking introduction." - Halsey

Open your world with poetry

Musings on Pauline Hanson's second coming

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

Writer/social activist/mental health researcher. Books incl: Your name is not Anxious, Creative Journal Writing, Intimacy & Solitude, Forgiveness & Other Acts of Love, Seeking the Sacred, In the Company of Rilke, You Are the Future (w M.S Burrows).

Uplifting poetry, uplifting community, uplifting you.

A gentle, practical newsletter about growing food, keeping bees, making things by hand, and living slowly on a changing planet.

New Series: A Year of Wilding. Join me, Justin Russell, a long-term gardener and writer, as I learn to listen to the land, unravel conditioned ways of thinking and explore ideas and practices around wild gardening.

Mark Roberts is a writer, publisher & critic living on the land of the Darug & Gundungurra people. His latest collection of poetry is 'The Office of Literary Endeavours (5 Islands Press, 2025). He is also co-editor of Rochford Street Review.

Follow my journey as an emerging writer; I also write about mental health, queer identity, nostalgia, pop culture and zinester life.