Judith Nangala Crispin

Judith Nangala Crispin is an award-winning poet, academic and visual artist of Indigenous and mixed descent, living on unceded Yuin Country. She traces her lineage to Bpangerang people of the Murray River. Judith has spent two decades working with the Warlpiri people in the Northern Tanami, with whom she has forged lifelong ties. She is a proud member of the First Nations Australia Writing Network. Judith holds a PhD in Music from The Australian National University and a Doctor of Arts in Poetry from The University of Sydney. She has published three books Pillars of the Temple, The Myrrh-Bearers, and The Lumen Seed. Her verse novel The Dingo’s Noctuary will be published in 2024. Her recent prizes include the 2020 Blake Prize for Poetry and the 2023 Sunshine Coast Art Prize. Her work has been shortlisted for the 2024 Peter Porter Prize, the 2024 Alpine Poetry Fellowship, the 2023 Luma Recontres Book Prize, the 2023 Red Room Poetry Prize, the 2023 Milburn Art Prize, and the 2023 Ravenswood Art Prize. Judith’s poem ‘Voyage Through the Universe Via Katherine’, will be deposited on the Moon in 2024, as part of NASA’s Lunar Codex.  

Hannah Ferguson

Hannah Ferguson is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cheek Media Co, an independent Australian news commentary platform providing informed, progressive opinions on subjects that sit at the intersection of feminist, social and political issues. Cheek aims to make difficult topics accessible and entertaining, and to model hard and important conversations, mobilising change-makers in our community. Hannah has a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Master of Publishing, Editing and Writing, from The University of Queensland, and is the author of the best-seller, Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics and our Power to Change it All, 2023. Her second book, Taboo, will be published in November, 2024.

Omar Sakr

Omar Sakr does not have a bio in the genocide. There is no normal in the genocide.

His latest book is Non-Essential Work (UQP, 2023).  

Nigel Featherstone

Nigel Featherstone is an Australian novelist, playwright, librettist, freelancer, and music maker. His most recent novel, My Heart is a Little Wild Thing, was published in 2022. Nigel's most recent work is The Wreck Event, a 16-song, spokenword-and-music album, created in collaboration with award-winning poets Melinda Smith, Stuart Barnes, and CJ Bowerbird.

Nigel’s war novel, Bodies of Men, was longlisted for the 2020 ARA Historical Novel Prize, shortlisted for the 2020 ACT Book of the Year, shortlisted in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards, and received a 2019 Canberra Critics Circle Award. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals such as the Review of Australian Fiction, Meanjin, Overland, and Island. Nigel also writes for the stage, he wrote the libretto for The Weight of Light, music by James Humberstone, in 2018. As a freelancer, Nigel’s work has appeared in a variety of mastheads and journals, including the Sydney Morning Herald, Guardian Australia, and the Chicago Quarterly Review. He has been supported by artsACT, Create NSW, and Creative Australia. In 2022, Nigel was named the ACT Artist of the Year.