Julie Janson

Julie is a Burruberongal woman of the Darug Aboriginal nation, living on the South Coast of NSW. She is a novelist, playwright, and poet. Her newest novel is Compassion (2024). Previous novels include Madukka the River Serpent (2022) - long listed for the Miles Franklin Literary award 2023, and Benevolence (2020) - shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award 2022, nominated for the NIB Literary Award 2020, and the Voss Literary Award 2020. Julie is co-recipient of the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize 2016, and the Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2019. Julie's poems have been published in the Overland Magazine. 

Her career as a playwright began with productions at Belvoir St Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre and Sydney Opera House Studio. Her plays, Black Mary and Gunjies, are produced in Australia, USA and Indonesia. 

Kim Scott

Kim Scott is the multi-award winning novelist and author of Benang, That Deadman Dance and Taboo. Proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar, Kim is founder of the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project, and is Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University. Kim has won the Miles Franklin Award twice. First in 1999, for Benang and again in 2011, for That Deadman Dance, which won a host of awards including the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South East Asia and the Pacific.

Helen Elliott

Helen Elliott is a literary critic, journalist and author of an acclaimed memoir, Eleven Letters to You: A Memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, which Helen Garner has called “a quietly ecstatic work of memory, intense, witty and beautiful".

Helen has been a columnist for many major publications on food, aesthetics, gardening and fashion, as well as literature. In 2021, she edited a collection of personal essays by Australian women titled, Grandmothers.