Michael Byrne is a Newcastle writer and theatre maker.

Journalist and former broadcaster Caroline Baum is the author of Only: A Singular Memoir and a contributor to anthologies My Mother, My Father, and Rebellious... Read More

Hera Lindsay Bird is an award-winning Wellington poet and fiction writer. Her debut self-titled book of poetry was published in 2016 and became an instant... Read More

Winner of the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Victorian Prize for Literature for his memoir No Friend but the Mountains, Behrouz Boochani is a... Read More

Susan Francis is an emerging Australian writer whose short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, here and overseas. In 2017, she talked about... Read More

Jane Gilmore was the founding editor of The King’s Tribune. She is now a freelance journalist and a regular columnist for The Age and Sydney... Read More

Ruby Hamad is a Lebanese-Syrian journalist and author who was raised in Australia. A former columnist at Fairfax, where she spearheaded the national conversation on intersectionality in... Read More

Sophie Hardcastle is an author, artist, screenwriter and scholar. In 2018, she was a Provost’s Scholar in English Literature at Worcester College, at the University... Read More

Gabrielle Jackson is an associate news editor at Guardian Australia, and was previously opinion editor there. Before that, she was a senior journalist at The Hoopla. Gabrielle... Read More

David Owen Kelly grew up in a family of 13 (unlucky for some). His siblings were adopted, fostered, step, and blood. Two were Stolen Generation.... Read More

Lee Kofman is a Russian-born, Israeli-Australian novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist and former academic based in Melbourne. She is the author of three fiction... Read More

David Leser has been a Middle East and Washington correspondent as well as feature writer in Australia for the Murdoch, Packer and Fairfax presses. He... Read More