Angela Meyer is an award-winning writer and editor. Her debut novel, A Superior Spectre (Ventura Press), was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award, the MUD Literary Prize, an Australian Book Industry Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Writing and a Saltire Literary Society Award (Scotland). She is also the author of a novella, Joan Smokes,…

Arnold Zable is an acclaimed writer, novelist, storyteller and human rights advocate. His books include Jewels and Ashes, The Fig Tree, Cafe Scheherazade, Scraps of Heaven, Sea of Many Returns, Violin Lessons, and The Fighter. His most recent book, The Watermill was published in March 2020. His work ranges across many genres and includes novels, short stories, essays, columns, opinion…

Anwen Crawford is a Sydney-based writer, critic and visual artist. She is the author of No Document (Giramondo, 2021), shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize, and Live Through This (Bloomsbury, 2015). In 2021 she won the Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism for her music writing in The Monthly, and her essays and criticism have appeared…

Rebecca Giggs is an author from Perth, Australia. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Emergence, the New York Review of Books, Granta, and in anthologies including Best Australian Essays, and Best Australian Science Writing. Rebecca’s writing focuses on the natural world and animals in particular: the power animals hold over us and…

Mireille Juchau is a novelist, essayist and Walkley Award winning critic. Her third novel, The World Without Us, was published internationally with Bloomsbury and won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Her essays and reviews are published in newyorker.com, LA Review of Books, Bomb Magazine, LitHub, The Monthly, Best Australian Essays and more. Mireille has a PhD in literature and has…

Jenna Guillaume was editor-at-large for BuzzFeed Australia, where she wrote about very important things like pop culture, identity, feminism, social media, and Chris Hemsworth’s biceps. Previously, she spent more than half a decade in the features department of Girlfriend magazine, editing the sealed section (yes, all those questions are real), and writing about everything from bullying and body image…

Davina Bell is an award-winning author for young readers of many ages. She writes picture books (including All the Ways to be Smart, All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors and Under the Love Umbrella), junior fiction (Lemonade Jones) and middle-grade fiction (The Corner Park Clubhouse series and the Alice books in the Our Australian Girl series). Her debut YA novel, The End…

Jane Godwin is the highly acclaimed author of over thirty books for children, across all styles and ages. Her work is published internationally and she has received many commendations, including the Queensland Premier’s Award (Children’s Books), the Aurealis Award and the Animal Welfare Award, and shortlistings in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards, the…

Kristina Olsson is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and journalism. Her 2013 memoir, Boy, Lost, garnered multiple national awards. Her most recent  novel, Shell, is set in Sydney against the backdrop of the building of Sydney Opera House and Australia’s entry into the Vietnam War. It launched the legendary Scribner Australia literary imprint and was shortlisted…