James Colley

James Colley is a television comedy writer, producer and author from Western Sydney. He is best known for his work on Gruen, Summer Love, Question Everything, The 1% Club, and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. James is a regular contributor to Frankie Magazine and The Guardian, with bylines in Junkee, The Big Issue, Crikey and a number of others he either can’t remember or is choosing to forget. The Next Big Thing: A Girl, A Boy, A Big Attraction (2024), is his debut novel. 

James has written for The ARIAs, Bravest Warriors, Tomorrow Tonight, Tonightly, and Hard Quiz. He was the creator of SBS Comedy’s The Backburner, and creator of the podcasts Nailed It and Stop the Posts. James wrote for A Rational Fear on Radio National (2014) and appeared live at The Festival of Dangerous Ideas (2013), and Splendour in the Grass (2014).
 

Jessica Dettmann

Jessica Dettmann is a Sydney-based writer, editor, and performer. A graduate of the University of Sydney, she studied at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, Vermont, and at Lincoln College, Oxford. She once appeared as the City of Sydney Christmas angel, sitting on top of the town hall in a gown that reached the street (mostly to have something interesting to one day put into an author bio). After a decade working as an editor at Random House Australia and HarperCollins and having two children, she began writing. Her blog, Life with Gusto, turned a sharp and affectionate eye on modern parenthood. She is the author of three novels – How To Be Second Best, This Has Been Absolutely Lovely and Without Further Ado – and one children’s book, There is No Such Book. She is currently writing her fourth novel. 

Ceridwen Dovey

Ceridwen Dovey is the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction, including Only the Animals (2014), On J.M. Coetzee: Writers on Writers (2018), and Mothertongues (2022).  Her most recent book is a collection of short stories, Only the Astronauts (2024). She loves to write in many genres, to collaborate with other artists, and to experiment with voice and form. Her science writing has been recognised with an Australian Museum Eureka Award, and she makes experimental films about ethics in outer space as part of the Archival Futures Collective. She writes audio-only romance fiction for Audible as Adeline Knight (Lonely Harts Radio was released in 2023, and Wildhearts is forthcoming in 2024.)

Tori Haschka

Tori Haschka is the author of two novels; Grace Under Pressure and A Recipe for Family and two cookery books: A Suitcase and a Spatula and Cut the Carbs!. Once upon a time her blog Eatori was named by Saveur as one of the five best food and travel blogs in the world. She lives in Berry with her husband and two children.