Artists Archive - Newcastle Writers Festival 2026

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Randa is a Palestinian Egyptian writer, academic and former lawyer. She is the multi award-winning author of 12 books. Her new novel is Discipline (UQP).

Rataj Abdullah

Rataj Abdullah is a 19-year-old spoken word artist and community organiser from Gumbaynggirr Country in Coffs Harbour, now based in Sydney. She is the 2023 Coffs Harbour Poetry Slam winner,…

Debra Adelaide

Dr Debra Adelaide is the author of five novels and two collections of short stories. Her latest book is When I Am Sixty-Four.

Stephanie Alexander

Stephanie Alexander AO is regarded as one of Australia’s great food educators. Her fifth book, The Cook’s Companion, first published in 1996, is regarded as an Australian classic, and has sold over…

Dael Allison

Dael Allison writes and edits poetry, fiction and essays. She has an MA in creative writing (poetry) from University of Technology Sydney, and a PhD in creative writing (fiction) from…

Zohra Aly

Zohra Aly lives in Sydney on Dharug land. She is a latent pharmacist and freelancer, currently working on an essay collection and reviving her novel.

Eunice Andrada

Eunice Andrada is a poet and educator. She is the author of three acclaimed poetry collections: Flood Damages (2018), Take Care (2021), and Kontra (2025).

Bonnie Anne

Bonnie Anne (they/them) is content creator, DJ and drag artist on Awabakal land, Newcastle, amplifying emerging talent through interviews, live coverage and community music connections.

Evelyn Araluen

Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and educator, and the author of two poetry collections, Dropbear, and The Rot.

Robbie Arnott

Robbie Arnott is the author of Dusk, Limberlost, The Rain Heron and Flames.

Ronald Araña Atilano

Ronald Atilano is a Filipino-born poet who lives in Awabakal land in Lake Macquarie NSW. ‘New Ordinance for the Dead’, published by Flying Islands, is his first book of poetry.

Phillip Aughey

Phil is an Arts graduate in Communications. He runs a touring theatre company producing three plays written by him. He is a published author of two novels. He is the…

Magdalena Ball

Magdalena Ball is a novelist, poet, reviewer, interviewer, vice president of Flying Island Press, and managing editor of Compulsive Reader. She is the author of two novels and seven poetry…

David Banney

In Hearing Art, Seeing Music, David Banney brings his wide experience as conductor, composer, educator and broadcaster to bear on the parallel histories of western music and art, from the…

John Barnes

Dr John Barnes is a Newcastle based artist and academic, formerly Director of the Cessnock Regional Art Gallery and art columnist for the Newcastle Herald.

Tyree Barnette

Tyree Barnette is originally from North Carolina, USA. His debut novel is Stolen Man on Stolen Land: Being African-American in Australia

Natalia Figueroa Barroso

Natalia Figueroa Barroso is a writer, poet, screenwriter of Uruguayan descent who was born on Dharug Ngura. Hailstones Fell Without Rain is her debut novel.

Damien Becker

Damien Becker writes about living with cystic fibrosis. His debut poetry collection, Thin Reed Throat, won the 2024 Flying Islands Manuscript Prize.

Morgan Bell

Morgan Bell is a Port Stephens author. Her full-colour poetry zine, Glancing The Hold (2025), is the third in a series of nature haiku collections.

Cadance Bell

Cadance Bell’s latest is Letters to Our Robot Son. A ragamuffin shithead from the bush, she likes board games and short walks to the fridge.

Paul Bevan

Paul was a broadcaster with the ABC for 30 years. He’s proud to have been involved with the Newcastle Writers Festival since its inception.

Matt Bevan

Matt Bevan is the host and writer of the award-winning ABC News podcast If You’re Listening.

Danielle Binks

Danielle Binks is a Melbourne-based author and literary agent with Jacinta di Mase Management. She also teaches in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University.

Jess Black

Jess Black is an award-winning author of 70 children’s books. Her most recent book is Aussie Garden Babies, part of a high-contrast board book series for babies.

Russell Blackford

Russell Blackford is a philosopher, literary critic, legal scholar, and widely published essayist and commentator. His latest book is How We Became Post-Liberal (Bloomsbury, 2024).

Ariel Bogle

Ariel Bogle is an investigations reporter at the Guardian Australia, and the co-author of Conspiracy Nation.

Josh Bornstein

Josh Bornstein is an award-winning lawyer specialising in employment and labour-relations law. Working for the Brand is his first book

Ruth Boydell

Ruth Boydell ran away to sea in the 1970s and 80s. She sailed, lived and loved her adventurous life. Rocking the Boat is her memoir.

Teia Bradbury

Teia is an Illustration student at the University of Newcastle with a passion for creative writing that explores the intersection between art, technology and humanity.

Yazmin Bradley

Yazmin Bradley’s weird and strange writings can be found in WestWord’s Living with Illness and Disability: Poised on The Pointe of Pain.

Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown is a writer and actor, having appeared in over 100 film and television productions. The Hidden is his latest thriller.

Liz Cameron

Author Liz Cameron’s Cult Bride recounts her experience in the JMS cult, exploring brainwashing, survival, and raising awareness of manipulative cult dynamics.

Jane Caro

Jane Caro AM is a Walkley award winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, feminist, public education activist and social commentator. Lyrebird is her latest book.

Bob Carr

The Hon Bob Carr is the longest continuously serving Premier in the history of New South Wales. Since leaving politics Bob has led a distinguished career as a defacto diplomat,…

Santilla Chingaipe is a Zambian-born filmmaker, historian and author, whose work explores settler colonialism, slavery, and contemporary migration in Australia. Chingaipe’s first book of non-fiction Black Convicts was shortlisted for…

Lliane Clarke

Lliane Clarke is Artistic Director of award-winning Voices of Women, a community-based writing workshop program, producing podcasts, theatre and film. She is a non-fiction publisher, writer, author mentor, literary judge…

Maxine Beneba Clarke

Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the author of the ABIA-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the memoir The Hate Race, three picture books…

Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins is an award-winning author, screenwriter and producer. She hosts the podcast ‘Are You Still Working?!’. Her novels include The Burial and Bird.

Loren Collyer

Loren Collyer is a proud Bandjin woman and University of Newcastle leader, advancing Indigenous education and cultural capability, drawing on decades of legal, teaching, and community experience.

Jennifer Compton

Jennifer Compton lives in Melbourne. Her 11th book of poetry, ‘the moment, taken’ was published by Recent Work Press. ‘Still’ is forthcoming

Maddison Connaughton

Maddison Connaughton is an investigative journalist, currently working for ABC’s Background Briefing. She has reported from the Asia-Pacific, United States and the Middle East.

Jude Conway

Jude Conway, Novocastrian born and bred, specialises in the histories of ground breaking women in Newcastle and the Hunter Region.

Adam Courtenay

Adam Courtenay is the author of several Australian popular history books including the best-selling The Ship that Never Was. My Father Bryce is his eighth book.

Dan Cox

Dan Cox is a journalist and broadcaster who has worked in the local media industry for nearly 20 years. He loves a good book and loves talking about books. Dan…

Lily Crozier

Lily Crozier grew up in Newcastle in a family of book collectors and has been a bookseller, BookToker, book publicist and marketer. Vow of Eternal Night is her first novel.

Nina Cullen

Nina Cullen’s award-winning writing has appeared in publications including Australian Book Review, The Big Issue Fiction Edition, Meniscus, Island, Sleepers Almanac, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian.

Helen Cummings

Helen Cummings is the daughter of the late Joy Cummings, Australia’s first female Lord Mayor, and a passionate advocate for her mother’s enduring legacy. She is committed to community engagement,…

Nancy Cushing

Nancy Cushing is Associate Professor in History at the University of Newcastle on Awabakal country. Her research explores settler colonial relations with the Australian environment.

Rhett Davis

Rhett Davis is the author of Arborescence and Hovering. He lives, works and writes mostly on Wadawurrung country in Geelong.

David Day

Among his many books, David Day has published several biographies of Australian prime ministers, with the most recent being a two-volume biography of Bob Hawke.

Brigid Delaney

Brigid Delaney is the author of five books, including Reasons Not to Worry and Wellmania, which became a hit Netflix show.

Jackie Dent

Jackie Dent is a journalist and author of The Great Dead Body Teachers. She recently completed her Phd on The Pleasures of War.

Lorena Dionigi

Lorena Dionigi is a short fiction and fantasy writer currently in her third year of a BA in English and Writing at the University of Newcastle.

Joseph Earp

Joseph Earp is a writer, journalist, painter, philosopher and the author of the novel Painting Portraits of Everyone I’ve Ever Dated.

Samuel Elliott

Samuel Elliott is a Sydney-based writer and interviewer. He is the founder and host of The Write Way podcast. Haze is his debut novel.

Beth Elliott

Beth Elliott’s writing is a heartfelt and profound exploration of life’s issues, which she gives full voice to in Songs of the Thorn Birds.

Justin Ellis

Dr Justin Ellis examines the relationship between technology, identity and justice, with a current focus on LGBTQIA+ expression in a time of increased hostility against sexual and gender diversity, amplified…

The Duke of Erlington

Erling ‘Duke’ Gronhaug is a Newcastle based musician and filmmaker. Sometimes a drummer, sometimes a wanna-be comedian. This time a heartfelt song writer.

Kate Evans

Kate Evans co-hosts The Bookshelf on ABC Radio National, is one of the presenters of Top 100 Books, and regularly interviews writers onstage.

JM Field

Dr JM Field is a Gamilaraay writer, weaver and mathematician. His latest collection The Eagle & the Crow explores the philosophy and structure of Gamilaraay kinship.

Joanna Atherfold Finn

Joanna Atherfold Finn is a Port Stephens-based author/editor and wild-caught seafood business partner. Her most recent book is Plastic Free published by NewSouth Publishing.

Sarah Firth

Sarah Firth is an author, artist and live illustrator. Sarah’s debut graphic novel Eventually Everything Connects won the Emily Toth Award and a Gold Ledger.

John Fischetti

Professor John Fischetti is an Emeritus Professor of Leadership and School Transformation at the University of Newcastle His latest book is The Future of Schooling in a GenAI World.

Peter FitzSimons

Peter FitzSimons AM is Australia’s bestselling non-fiction writer, author and journalist. His latest book is The Courageous Life of Weary Dunlop.

Kathleen Folbigg

Kathleen Folbigg is the co-author of Inside Out, a book about love, friendship trial and success.

Candice Fox

Candice Fox is a bestselling crime fiction author, animal rescuer and murder aficionado.

Jan Fran

Jan Fran is a Walkley award-winning journalist and co-founder of Independent media company, Ette Media.

Susan Francis

Susan Francis is the author of the suspense thriller, Revelation Beach, exploring the Balibo Five executions. She lives and works on Awabakal Country.

Zeynab Gamieldien

Zeynab Gamieldien is the author of Learned Behaviours (2025) and The Scope of Permissibility (2023), published by Ultimo Press.

Helen Garner

Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction.

Kate Giles

Kate Giles studies creative writing through Macquarie university. She has had several poems published and most recently had an essay included in the anthology, Poised on the Pointe of Pain.

Keri Glastonbury

Keri Glastonbury is an Associate Professor in English and Writing at The University of Newcastle. Her most recent poetry book is 51 Alterities (Giramondo 2025).

Madeleine Gray

Madeleine Gray is a novelist and critic from Sydney. Her debut novel, Green Dot, was an international bestseller.

AC Grayling

AC Grayling CBE FRSA FRSL is a British philosopher and author. Grayling is the author of over 35 books on philosophy, politics, culture, biography, history of ideas, human rights and…

Jacqueline Greig

Jacqui Greig, former GP and obstetrician, now writes creative non-fiction exploring nature, science and illness. She has CIDP and is studying genetic counselling while still writing about dis-ease.

Peter Greste

Peter Greste is a journalist and academic. His book, The Correspondent, explores his imprisonment in Egypt on terrorism charges, the ‘war on journalism’ and is now a major movie.

Andy Griffiths

Andy Griffiths is one of Australia’s most popular children’s authors. His books are published all over the world and include the JUST! books, the Treehouse series and his latest book,…

Madison Griffiths

Madison Griffiths is a writer, artist and producer whose latest non-fiction title, Sweet Nothings, tracks the lives of four different women, who have each had relationships with university professors or…

Ben Groundwater

Ben Groundwater is a Sydney-based travel and food writer, a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, a restaurant reviewer, and the author of five books.

Michelle Hamadache

Michelle Hamadache is a Sydney writer of short stories, reviews and essays.

Steph Harmon

Steph Harmon is culture editor of Guardian Australia. She was previously founding editor of Junkee.com, and the editor of Sydney arts and music magazine the Brag.

Ashley Hay

Ashley Hay is an award-winning novelist, essayist and editor whose work includes A Hundred Small Lessons, and Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions.

Chloe Hooper

Chloe Hooper is an acclaimed author of fiction and non-fiction. She has won three Walkley Awards. Her latest book is The Mushroom Tapes.

Bill Hope

Bill Hope accidentally drew himself into existence with a crayon at an early age and has been drawing ever since. His most recent book is You & Me and The…

Brandon Jack

Brandon Jack is the Sydney based author of Pissants. He previously published the critically acclaimed memoir, 28, and spent more years than he probably should have running around a football…

Kingsley James

Kingsley throws himself into each performance as if it were his last. Soul and complete vulnerability is shown to the audience that creates a true attachment to the song as…

Gail Jones

Gail Jones is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. She is the author of two short-story collections and nine novels, and her work has been translated into several languages and…

Toni Jordan

Toni Jordan is the author of the eight novels, including the international bestseller Addition. Her latest novel, Tenderfoot, is about growing up in the 1970s.

Effie Karageorgos

Effie Karageorgos is a historian of protest, war and psychiatry, and author of Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War.

Yumna Kassab

Yumna Kassab is the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature. She is the author of The House of Youssef, Australiana, The Lovers, Politica. Her latest book is The Theory of Everything.

Amie Kaufman

Amie Kaufman is a New York Times and internationally bestselling sci-fi and fantasy author with over a million books in print. Her latest novel is Red Star Rebels.

Kit Kelen

Christopher (Kit) Kelen has more than a dozen full-length collections in English as well as many translated books of poetry. He is the winner of the 2024 Newcastle Poetry Prize.

Kim Kelly

Kim Kelly is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. Her first memoir, Touched: A small history of feeling, won the 2025 Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Prize for non-fiction. Kim is also…

Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent is the bestselling author of the novels Burial Rites, The Good People, and Devotion, and the memoir Always Home, Always Homesick.

Jean Kent

Jean Kent has had 10 books of her poetry published. The most recent is Paris Light: A Personal ‘Plan de Paris’ (Pitt Street Poetry, 2024).

Jacqueline Kent

Jacqueline Kent is a Sydney-based biographer, specialising in the lives of awkward women. Her most recent book is INCONVENIENT WOMEN, Australian Radical Writers 1900-1970.

Jessica Kirkness

Jessica’s first book, The House With All The Lights On explored her relationship with her deaf grandparents. Her recent writing discusses health and chronic illness.

Sarah Krasnostein

Sarah Krasnostein is a multi-award winning writer and critic. She is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner, The Believer, the Quarterly Essay, Not Waving, Drowning, and On Peter Carey….

Lee Lai

Lee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio’tia:ke (colonially Montreal). Her latest graphic novel, Cannon, is with Giramondo and Drawn & Quarterly.

Lap Lam

Lap Lam is Associate Professor at the Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore.

Antoinette Lattouf

Antoinette Lattouf is a journalist and human rights advocate of Lattouf v ABC fame. She’s the author of How to Lose Friends and Influence White People, and Women Who Win…

Bri Lee

Bri Lee is the award-winning author of Seed, The Work, Eggshell Skull, Beauty, and Who Gets to Be Smart. She is the creator and editor of News & Reviews.

Carol Lefevre

Carol Lefevre is the author of nine books including Bloomer, a lyrical celebration of the riches of ageing as well as a reckoning with its challenges.

Cheng Lei

Cheng Lei is a Chinese Australian journalist who was imprisoned by China for over three years at the lowest point in bilateral relations. Her book, A Memoir of Freedom, was…

Natasha Lester

Natasha Lester is the internationally bestselling author of nine historical novels. The Chateau on Sunset is her latest book.

Kathy Lette

Full of laugh-out-loud humour and devastating pathos, Kathy Lette’s brilliant new novel, The Sisterhood Rules, takes us on a roller-coaster ride which proves that from pain comes healing, from honesty…

Damien Linnane

Damien Linnane is an author and illustrator, and the editor of Paper Chained, a prison arts magazine. His most recent book is the memoir Raw.

David Grant Lloyd

David Grant Lloyd’s first book of poetry, Alive in Dubbo, was published in 2022. Still Alive in Dubbo is his second book.

Amy Lovat

Amy Lovat is the author of Mistakes and Other Lovers, and Big Feelings, and is the current program manager of the Newcastle Writers Festival.

Micheál Lovett

Micheál Lovett is a an acclaimed writer originally from Ireland, and has written for theatre and TV in Australia, US, UK and Ireland. He has also published a YA Fiction…

Siang Lu

Siang Lu is the Miles Franklin-winning author of Ghost Cities and ABIA-winning author of The Whitewash. He is the creator of #sillybookstagram.

Penny Macoun

Penny Macoun is a writer from Sydney. Her latest work is a piece in the Anthology, Living with Illness and Disability: Poised on the Pointe of Pain (2025). She has…

Zara Madrusan

Michael and Zara Madrusan shape contemporary cocktail culture through Bartender’s Choice Consultancy, celebrated venues, respected industry education and their new book, The Madrusan’s Cocktail Companion.

Michael Madrusan

Michael and Zara Madrusan shape contemporary cocktail culture through Bartender’s Choice Consultancy, celebrated venues, respected industry education and their new book, The Madrusan’s Cocktail Companion.

Lucy Marinelli

Lucy’s an Australian, Ubud-based poet, creative writer, and researcher. She runs workshops in-person and online, mentors poets, and works with people seeking healing through poetry.

Maeve Marsden

Maeve Marsden is a writer, theatremaker and the Creative Director of Varuna the National Writers’ House and the Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival. She is best known for producing Queerstories.

Alejandra Martinez

Alejandra is an Australian-Uruguayan writer. Her debut novel, Salsa in the Suburbs, was published in May 2025.

Thomas Mayo

Thomas Mayo is the award-winning author of many books, including most recently Always Was, Always Will Be, The Voice to Parliament Handbook, and Finding the Heart of The Nation.

Charlotte McConaghy

Charlotte McConaghy is the author of The New York Times bestselling Wild Dark Shore, Once There Were Wolves and Migrations, which have been translated into over 25 languages and adapted…

Andrew McDonald

Andrew McDonald is the author of the bestselling Real Pigeons and Hello Twigs series. He loves writing stories that make kids laugh, gasp and wonder about the world.

Phillipa McGuinness

Phillipa McGuinness is editor of Openbook, the quarterly magazine of the State Library of NSW, and co-editor of The Library That Made Me.

Phoebe McIlwraith

Phoebe McIlwraith is a Githabul Bundjalung and Worimi Saltwater dubay/galbaan (woman). She is a multi-disciplinary news and current affairs journalist, reporting on First Nations affairs.

Julie McIntyre

Dr Julie McIntyre is an Associate Professor of Australian History at the University of Newcastle and author of two award winning books.

Monica McKenzie

Monica McKenzie is a Dharawal-Yuin woman, mother, and lecturer with years of experience in public education. She now conducts research and evaluation at the University of Newcastle.

Paula McLean

Paula McLean is Patron, NSW Ambassador and immediate past Deputy Chair of the Stella Prize. She founded the Nature Writing Prize in 2011. The One Remaining is her debut novel.

Katherine McLean

Katherine McLean is Director of Hunter Writers’ Centre, drawing on more than 20 years in arts leadership, community cultural development, and storytelling to support writers and creative communities.

Jane Messer

Jane Messer is an accomplished writer and teacher. She is the author of three novels, along with short stories, essays, and radio dramas. Her most recent book is the acclaimed…

Kate Mildenhall

Kate Mildenhall is a writer and teacher. Her fourth and most recent novel is The Hiding Place. Kate lives on Wurundjeri country.

Abby Millerd

A lawyer by day, writer by moonlight, Abby is finalising her suspense novel, The Mourner. This is Abby’s second year hosting at NWF.

Nick Milligan

Nick Milligan is a Lake Macquarie (Awabakal) based writer and film critic who has published three books of fiction. He is also the curator of the annual NWF event Words…

Rosemarie Milsom

Rosemarie Milsom is a former journalist and the founding director of Newcastle Writers Festival, which is in its fourteenth year.

Jazz Money

Jazz Money is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, how to make a basket, and mark the dawn, and the children’s book The Frog’s First Song.

Kylie Morris

Kylie Morris is an award-winning foreign correspondent and broadcaster who holds a Master’s in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

Tara Rae Moss

Tara Rae Moss is the #1 International bestselling author of 15 books of fiction and non-fiction. Her latest novel is The Italian Secret.

Natalie Murray

Natalie Murray is the bestselling romance author of Lights, Camera, Love and Love, Just In, published by Allen & Unwin.

Omar Musa

Omar Musa is an acclaimed author, poet and visual artist from Queanbeyan, Australia, whose work spans novels, poetry, hip-hop and theatre. Fierceland is his latest novel.

Lucy Nelson

Lucy Nelson is the author of Wait Here. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Sydney Morning Herald and elsewhere.

Sonia Orchard

Sonia Orchard’s most recent book is Groomed, a memoir about her journey through the justice system as a complainant in a historical sexual abuse case.

Nikolas Orr

Nikolas Orr has written on the destruction of colonial monuments by the Indigenous peoples. He is an historian working in the public service.

Alli Parker

Alli Parker is a Japanese-Australian author. She wrote At the Foot of the Cherry Tree, and Until the Red Leaves Fall, exploring forgotten Australian histories.

Jacinta Parsons

Jacinta Parsons is a radio broadcaster and writer from Melbourne. She has released three books, Unseen (2020), A Question of Age (2022) and her most recent in 2025 – an…

Erin Pascall

Erin Pascall is an advocate for literacy and lifelong reading. She explores what drives stories and works to inspire connection and engagement across communities.

Corrie Perkin

Corrie Perkin is the founding Director of the Sorrento Writers Festival. She is an award-winning journalist, an editor and writer and co-hosts the weekly podcast ‘Don’t Shoot The Messenger’

Bastian Fox Phelan

Bastian is a writer of memoir and environmental essays from Mulubinba Newcastle, Australia. Their debut book is How to be Between (Giramondo).

Andrew Pippos

Andrew Pippos is the author of Lucky’s (2020), which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, and it won the Reading Prize for Australian Fiction. His…

Tim Pocock

Tim Pocock is an actor, musician, LGBTQIA+ activist and author of The Truth Will Set You Free: Growing Up Gay in Opus Dei

Katharine Pollock

Katharine Pollock is the author of Starry Eyed (Wakefield Press, 2025), and Her Fidelity (Penguin Random House, 2022). Katharine has a PhD in Creative Writing.

JP Pomare

JP Pomare is the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of seven crime novels, including 17 Years Later and In The Clearing. Two of his novels have already been adapted for…

Symphony Rain

Symphony Rain is a multi-talented performer with a real passion for music and storytelling.

Regikay

Regikay is an upcoming singer, songwriter and performer based in Newcastle (Mulubinba). Regikay’s sound consists of modern neo – soul and R&B, with inspirations derived from her West – African…

Kate Reid

Kate Reid is a visionary entrepreneur and the founder of Lune Croissanterie, a renowned bakery established in Melbourne. Her latest book is Destination Moon: A Memoir of Fast Cars, French…

Sally Rippin

Sally Rippin is the best-selling author of the Billie B Brown and School of Monsters series, as well as Wild Things, her book for adults.

Miller Roberts

Following the critical acclaim of her EP, All the things I could never say, and heart-wrenching single, Bon Iver Concert, Miller Roberts has embarked on a captivating musical journey with…

Debbie Robson

Debbie Robson has been writing and publishing poetry for over 30 years and she is now very proud to launch her first chapbook A Glimpse.

Heather Rose

Heather Rose is the author of 10 books and is one of Australia’s favourite authors. Her works include The Museum of Modern Love, Bruny and Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here….

Gillian Rubinstein

Gillian Rubinstein is the author of Space Demons and Tales of the Otori (as Lian Hearn). Screaming and Euphoria is her first book of poetry.

Michael Sala

Michael Sala is married to the Shadow of the Loom (Text), the first gigantic book in an epic fantasy series due for release in 2027.

Amy Sambrooke

Amy Sambrooke was Creative Director of Varuna the National Writers’ House from 2017 to 2023, and Artistic Director of the Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival from 2019 to 2023. Amy is…

Melanie Saward

Dr Melanie Saward is a Bigambul and Wakka Wakka writer, editor, and academic from Tulmur. She is the author of Burn and Love Unleashed, and A Good Kind of Trouble

Mandy Sayer

Mandy Sayer is an award-winning novelist and narrative non-fiction writer. Her memoir, No Dancing in the Lift, is published by Transit Lounge

Toby Schmitz

Toby Schmitz, is a writer, actor and director. The Empress Murders is his first novel

S. Shakthidharan

S. Shakthidharan is an Australian playwright with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. Gather Up Your World In One Long Breath is his debut book.

Kerri Shying

Kerri Shying is Wiradjuri and Chinese. They published four books of poetry and have a diverse writing history. Kerri’s most recent collection is Know Your Country.

Lamisa Siddique

Lamisa is a spoken word poet based in Awabakal country. She holds second place in the APS 2025 National Finals and is a finalist at the BPS Grand Slam 2025.

David Stavanger

David Stavanger is a poet, producer, and former psychologist living on Dharawal land. He is the co-editor of Admissions: Voices Within Mental Health, and author of Case Notes and The…

Josh Stenberg

Josh Stenberg is an academic, poet and translator. His most recent work, with Lap Lam, is The Travelling Soul: Chinese Poetry in Australia (1901-1934).

Clare Stephens

Clare Stephens is a Sydney-based screenwriter, author and award-winning podcaster. Her debut novel is The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done.

Liz Stringer

With a career spanning seven studio albums, Liz Stringer holds a unique place among the most important Australian songwriters of the modern era.

Yumi Stynes

Yumi Stynes is co-author of the acclaimed Welcome To series. She hosts the podcast Ladies We Need to Talk and is a renowned public speaker.

Nikki Lee Taylor

Nikki Lee Taylor is an award-winning Australian crime author, 2024 Scarlet Stiletto Award winner whose acclaimed works include The Secrets We Keep, The Alibi, and Wildling Road.

Zoe Terakes

Zoe Terakes is an actor and writer living and working on Gadigal Land. Zoe is a Cretan trans masculine person who is indebted to the trans folks of colour who…

Grace Turner

Newcastle-born, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Grace Turner merges indie-rock grit with tender folk roots. Known for evocative songwriting and magnetic vocals, she returns in 2025 with her immersive new single Don’t Hold…

Corey Tutt

Associate Professor Corey Tutt OAM is a proud Kamilaroi man, a passionate advocate for STEM education, and a trailblazer in supporting the next generation of First Nations scientists and innovators.

Urthboy

Urthboy is an award winning songwriter and artist with 12 full length albums over 24 years.

Holly Wainwright

Holly Wainwright is the author of five novels, including the bestselling He Would Never, I Give My Marriage A Year and The Couple Upstairs, published by Pan Macmillan. She’s also…

Elizabeth Walton

Elizabeth Walton writes poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction, usually with outsider perspectives or environmental themes. Most recently awarded second prize in the June Shenfield literary awards for This Is A…

Isabel Warby

Isabel Warby is a University of Newcastle third-year psychology student whose passion secretly is creative writing. Whilst she procrastinates studying for statistics exams and writing lab reports, she likes to…

Isabelle Ward

Isabelle is a University of Newcastle English/Psych major with a particular interest in speculative fiction. She currently lives and works on Norfolk Island.

Nick Wasiliev

Nick Wasiliev hosts the literary podcast ‘Date with a Debut’. His debut contemporary novel When Men Cry was published in 2020.

Jamie Hay with Liam White

Jamie Hay writes songs like open windows, inviting in light, air, and the quiet truths we sometimes forget to say out loud.

Michael Williams

Michael Williams is the editor of The Monthly and host of the podcast Read This. He has worked in publishing, broadcasting and literary events.

Cam Wilson

Cam Wilson is an Australian journalist who reports for Crikey and writes the Sizzle, a daily tech newsletter.

Kaya Wilson

Kaya Wilson is a writer, tsunami scientist, and lover of all things ocean. Their first book, As Beautiful As Any Other, was listed by the Guardian as one of the…

Ben Wood

Ben Wood is the illustrator of the best-selling series Real Pigeons. New books include Real Pigeons Power Bin Baddies and Now You Are A Chicken.

Laurie Woolever

Laurie Woolever is an American writer and editor living in New York. Her most recent book is Care and Feeding: A Memoir

C.A. Wright

C.A. Wright is a fantasy author from Newcastle, NSW. Her debut novel Skysong, a reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale, was published in 2024.

Susan Wyndham

Susan Wyndham is a journalist and author of the literary biography Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower

Emma Pei Yin

Emma Pei Yin is the author of When Sleeping Women Wake and founder of yinfluence, an agency that connects PoC, queer and neurodivergent writers to culturally aligned editors and mentors.

Martina Zangger

Dr Martina Zangger’s memoir ‘Not My Shame’ is a testament to the power of female courage and strength. Her book provides insight into the complexities of gurus and their cults,…

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