Tony Birch
Tony Birch holds the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at Melbourne University. He is the author of three novels, five short fiction collections, and two collections of poetry.
Daisy Turnbull
Grace Tame
Toby Walsh
Susan Wyndham
Susan Wyndham is a journalist and writer. Her most recent book is Hazzard and Harrower: The Letters, co-edited with Brigitta Olubas and to be published by NewSouth in May 2024.
Marc Fennell
Marc Fennell is a Walkley Award-winning journalist, film critic, documentary maker and television host. A five-time medallist at the New York Festivals TV and Radio Awards, Marc has been nominated twice for Europe’s prestigious Rose d’Or Awards for Excellence in Television.
Madeleine Gray
Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney Australia. She has written arts criticism for the Sydney Review of Books, Overland, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, The Saturday Paper, and The Monthly.
Nardi Simpson
Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay writer, musician, composer and educator from North West NSW freshwater plains. A founding member of Indigenous folk duo Stiff Gins, Nardi has been performing nationally and internationally for over twenty years.
Kate Mildenhall
Kate Mildenhall is a writer, teacher of creative writing, and co-hosts The First Time podcast which features conversations with Australian writers. Her book, The Mother Fault, was longlisted for the 2021 Australian Book Industry Award, General Fiction Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2020 Aurealis Awards. Kate’s third novel is The Hummingbird Effect.
Kirli Saunders
Kirli Saunders (OAM) is a proud Gunai Woman with Dharawal, Biripi, Yuin & Gundungurra ties. She is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and consultant. Kirli was the NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year (2020). Her books have been widely recognised in the Prime Minister’s & Premier’s literary awards in NSW, QLD, VIC & WA. Her latest book is The Land Recalls You (Scholastic, 2024).
Brigitta Olubas
Brigitta's recent biography, Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Nonfiction and the Nib Literary Award. She is professor of English at the University of New South Wales where she teaches and researches in Australian Literature.
John Morrissey
John Morrissey is a Melbourne writer of Kalkadoon descent. He was the winner of the 2020 Boundless Mentorship and his collection of stories, Firelight, was published in 2023.
Kate Legge
Kate Legge is an award-winning journalist and author who has chronicled social and political affairs since the 1980s. Her latest book, Infidelity and Other Affairs (2023), is a work of memoir and creative nonfiction where she uses her own experiences as the raw material.
Meredith Curnow
Meredith Curnow publishes fiction and non-fiction for Penguin Random House Australia. Meredith is a proud board member of Express Media, a national organisation providing support and development opportunities for young Australian writers.
Ed Coper
Ed is a leading expert on communications for social impact. He has built social change initiatives, advocacy campaigns and political movements on every continent except Antarctica, and worked with high-profile change-makers from Malala Yousafzai to Greta Thunberg. His latest book is Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age.
Helen Elliot
Helen Elliott is a prominent literary critic, journalist and the editor of Grandmothers. Her writing has appeared in The Monthly, The Australian, The Age, Griffith Review, Best Australian Essays, Vogue and numerous other publications. In 2023 Helen wrote an inventive and unclassifiable book describing her life up to the age of twenty-one, Eleven Letters to You.
Penny Chapman
One of Australia’s most experienced television producers, Penny Chapman was a founding partner of the multi award winning company Matchbox Pictures; and Head of TV Drama and then Head of Television at the ABC. During her time there she executive produced many dramas, among them Brides Of Christ, (which she devised), The Leaving Of Liverpool and Blue Murder.
Damien Coulthard
Damien Coulthard is an Adnyamathanha and Dieri person of the Flinders Ranges; an international artist, cultural educator; and a high school teacher. He and his wife, Rebecca Sullivan, are co-founders of Warndo, a native food enterprise and ethical lifestyle brand and, the authors of First Nations Food Companion: How to buy, cook, eat and grow Indigenous Australian ingredients.
Rebecca Sullivan
Rebecca Sullivan is a food educator, regenerative farmer, Yale World Fellow and TV presenter who has featured in ABC’s Gardening Australia as well as on Channels Nine and Ten. She has worked in the UK Slow Food movement and teaches natural living and cookery in the UK and in Tasmania. Rebecca and husband Damien Coulthard are co-founders of Warndo, a native food enterprise and ethical lifestyle brand and in 2022 their most recent book was published, First Nations Food Companion: How to buy, cook, eat and grow Indigenous Australian ingredients.
Ceridwen Dovey
Ceridwen Dovey is the author of several books of fiction and non-fiction, including Only the Animals (2014), On J.M. Coetzee: Writers on Writers (2018), and Mothertongues (2022). Her science writing has been recognised with an Australian Museum Eureka Award, she makes experimental films about ethics in outer space and writes audio-only romance fiction. Her new book of short stories, Only the Astronauts, is published by Penguin Random House.