Francesca de Tores is a novelist and poet. She is the author of six novels, published in more than twenty languages. Her first historical novel, Saltblood, was awarded the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize and was a Sunday Times top-20 bestseller. Her latest novel, Cast Away, tells the story of Alexander Selkirk, the 18th-century sailor whose extraordinary survival on a remote island…
Kate Kruimink is a writer and editor from southern Lutruwita. Her first novel, A Treacherous Country, won the 2020 Vogel/Australian’s Literary Award. It was shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and longlisted in the UK for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. In 2021, she was one of the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Best Young…
Kavita Bedford is an Australian writer with a background in journalism, anthropology, and literature. Her work explores themes of migration, identity, loss, memory, globalisation, racism, mythology, and intergenerational trauma, often drawing on oral histories and fieldwork to interrogate broader social questions. With a focus on amplifying voices often excluded from mainstream media and literature, her…
Liz Evans is an award-winning British writer, journalist, author and novelist, currently based in lutruwita/Tasmania. She spent the 1990s as a music journalist in London and published two books on women and rock culture for Pandora/HarperCollins before training as a psychotherapist. Since moving to Australia, she has continued to write for a wide range of…
Nell Pierce is the author of the novel A Place Near Eden (Allen & Unwin, 2022), winner of the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award. Her short fiction has been published in The American Scholar. She holds a Master of Fine Art in Fiction Writing from the New School in New York City. Nell has worked as an Associate Literary…
Peggy Frew is a writer and musician who lives in Narrm/Melbourne. Her work has been published in The Age, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, Qantas Magazine, NGV Magazine, The Griffith Review and The Big Issue. She was the winner of The Age short story competition in 2008. Her first novel, House of Sticks, won the Victorian…
Dr Sian Prior has been a writer and broadcaster for over three decades. She has been a presenter on ABC RN, ABC Classic and ABC Melbourne, and a regular columnist and opinion writer for The Age/Sydney Morning Herald. Her essays have been published in magazines and literary journals, and her short fiction in a range of…
Anthony is a BAFTA and AWGIE award winning screenwriter, director and script producer. The projects Anthony has written and directed have won numerous international awards including a Primetime Emmy, an International Digital Emmy, two BAFTAs and five Australian Writers’ Guild awards. One of Anthony’s first short films, STOP (2000), was nominated for the Palmes d’Or for short…
Dan Hogan is the author of Secret Third Thing (Cordite, 2023), which won the Five Islands Prize and Mary Gilmore Award, and was named one of the ‘best 25 Australian books of 2023’ by The Guardian. Dan’s poetry has been recognised by the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Judith Wright Poetry Prize, XYZ Prize, and Val Vallis…
Ender Başkan is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, small-press publisher and bookseller. The winner of the 2021 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, his poems have been published in HEAT, Meanjin, Cordite, Unusual Work, Loom Literary Journal and Best of Australian Poems amongst others. He has also published a novel, A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man. He is…
Hayley Scrivenor is a former festival director and the internationally bestselling author of Dirt Town. Hayley’s debut novel won a number of national and international awards, including an ABIA for General Fiction Book of the Year in Australia, a Lambda Literary award for LGBTQ+ Mystery in the USA, and a prestigious ‘New Blood’ Dagger from the…
Kirsten Tranter is an internationally acclaimed writer, editor and critic based in the San Francisco Bay Area, author of the novels Hold (2016), longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Voss Literary Award, A Common Loss and The Legacy. She has mentored authors and taught creative writing and literary studies around the world at…
Lucy Christopher is an award-winning, best-selling author for young adults, children, and adults, with wide readership; her books are published in over 20 countries, selling over 250,000 copies. She has won many international awards, including the Printz Honor Award, Branford Boase, Prix Farniente, Golden Inky, and an International Reading Association Award. Release, her debut psychological thriller for…
Lucy Nelson lives and writes on unceded Wodi Wodi and Dharawal Country. Her short story collection Wait Here was longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize, shortlisted for the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. Her work has been published in The Monthly, Meanjin,…
LUCY VAN writes poetry and criticism. She has published Figures (Purely Physical 2017; Boomkat 2022), The Open (Cordite 2021), Australian Women Photographers: Other Times, Other Views (Anthem 2024) and MATERIAL (Permanent Draft 2026). She has been listed for prizes including the Stella, Mary Gilmore and Anne Elder, and won the Woollahra Digital Award for non-fiction…
Mandy Beaumont taught creative writing and communications at Griffith University for over a decade and holds a PhD and a master’s in creative writing. She is also a regular writer for The Big Issue and a specialist fundraising writer for non-profits. Her new true crime inspired novel, The Thrill of It, is out now with Hachette Publishing, and her…
Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of over sixteen books for adults and children, including the ABIA and Indie award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the NSW Premier’s award-winning bestselling memoir The Hate Race, the self-illustrated picture book When We Say Black Lives Matter, which was longlisted for the UK’s Kate Greenaway medal, and the CBCA Honour Book The…
Rhett Davis is the author of two novels, Arborescence and Hovering. Hovering won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize and the Aurealis Award for Science Fiction. Arborescence was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Science Fiction and longlisted for the…
Sam Twyford-Moore is the author of The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania and Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home. He is currently working on an intellectual biography of film critic, researcher, historian, poet and novelist Sylvia Lawson as part of a PhD at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of…
Sarah Day has written nine collections of poems. Her books have received the Anne Elder and Queensland Premier’s Award and Wesley Michel Wright Prizes, and have been shortlisted for the NSW, Tasmanian Premier’s, and Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Her Selected Poems (Arc UK, 2002) received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation). She was poetry editor of…