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. 

Kate Legge

Kate Legge is an award-winning journalist and author who has chronicled social and political affairs since the 1980s. Her novel,The Unexpected Elements of Love, was long listed for the Miles Franklin award. Her non-fiction book, Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story, was a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards. Kate's 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, turning her reporter’s eye towards the infidelity of her husband and then, later, the infidelity of her son.

Dorothy Driver

Dorothy Driver taught for many years at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she is now Emeritus Professor. Thereafter, she held a professorship at The University of Adelaide, where she now has adjunct researcher status. Her literary-critical research is primarily in the field of Southern African literature written in English, with a special focus on the intersections of gender and race, and on writing by women. Her latest book is A Book of Friends: In Honour of J.M. Coetzee on his 80th Birthday.