Madeleine Gray

Madeleine Gray, whose acclaimed debut novel, Green Dot was published in 2023, is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written arts criticism for the Sydney Review of Books, Overland, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, The Saturday Paper, and The Monthly.  In 2019 she was a CA-SRB Emerging Critic, and last year she was a finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, a finalist for the Woollahra Digital Literary Non-fiction award, and a recipient of a Nielma Sidney Literary Travel grant. She has a Master of Studies degree in English from the University of Oxford and is a current doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester, researching contemporary women's autobiographical literary theory.  

Bri Lee

Bri Lee has written investigative journalism, opinion, short fiction, essays, and arts criticism. Her first novel, The Work, was published in April, and her non-fiction books include Who Gets to be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge (2021), Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and fighting Back (2018), and Beauty (2019).

Bri is currently doing a PhD in law at the University of Sydney, where she lectures in media law. She was the 2020 Copyright Agency x UTS Writer-in-Residence. Together with the Women’s Justice Network, Bri founded The fREADom Inside Project that delivers books to women incarcerated in NSW, and crowdfunds to pay women with lived incarcerated experience to run book club programs for those still inside.

Bri lives and works on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. 

Jessie Stephens

Jessie Stephens is a writer, podcaster and broadcaster. She is the author of the internationally best-selling book Heartsick: Three Stories About Love and Loss and What Happens In between, released in 2021. Her first work of fiction, Something Bad Is Going To Happen, was published in 2023, and immediately became a number one fiction bestseller.  

Jessie is an executive editor at Mamamia, and co-host of the podcasts Mamamia Out Loud and Cancelled. She was a writer and co-producer on the Binge original series Strife. She is also a regular on ABC radio and Weekend Breakfast as well as Channel 10’s The Project, and her work has appeared in The Good Weekend, The Sydney Morning Herald and Vogue. 

Madeleine Genner

Madeleine Genner is a journalist and podcast producer at the ABC. She’s spent more than two decades making radio and podcasts for Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly to Ladies we Need to Talk with Yumi Stynes and Ms Represented with Annabel Crabb. She currently produces Not Stupid, a weekly podcast where Julia Baird and Jeremy Fernandez chat about the news of the week and the stories we are obsessed with. 
She once asked Heston Blumenthal if he likes cheese on toast and once bought Al Gore a Diet Coke because radio producing is always very glamorous. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two children and has far too many books on her bedside table.