Bronwyn Birdsall is a writer and editor. Her first novel Time and Tide in Sarajevo was shortlisted for the 2023 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Bronwyn is passionate about the power of story and supporting storytellers. She has spoken at festivals, at events and on podcasts about her novel and the creative process. Bronwyn’s writing centres around contemporary life and finding meaning in the everyday, and has been selected for development programs and residencies. As well as working as an editor for over fifteen years, she has also assessed entries for mentorship programs and competitions.
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Garry McDougall is a former lecturer and Artist-in-Residence at University of Western Sydney, and tutor at WEA. He is the winner of the Art-in-Unusual-Places Grant, 2022, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize, 2015, and editor of Coming Up for Air, Wonoona Storyteller Workshops, 2022. Garry was a feature poet at Sydney Writers Festival, 2017, and has over thirty published works including six novels, travel, poetry, as well as numerous short stories and poems published in international magazines. Garry is the author of Belonging, Knowing Simone, and is a specialist in general fiction, historical fiction, travel and photography, and the world’s most prolific writer on the Camino de Santiago.
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Ashley Lowe is a freelance writer, editor and content marketing specialist. Having written for some of Australia's top-selling weekly magazines, Ashley now predominantly works brand-side for clients in industries as diverse as health, beauty, law, private equity, psychology and even construction. Ashley also writes a weekly newsletter on the realities of life, In The Thick Of It, which can be found on Substack.
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Lathalia Song is an artist/poet and writer. Her hybrid works appear in Streetcake Magazine, Harpy Hydrid Review, Levatio, The Minison Project, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Authora Australis and Moon Cola zine. Editor for Authora Australis https://www.authora.net/. Hybrid works of illustrated poetic fables, ink designs abstracted and screenprinted at https://www.flywaterleaflight.com.au/. Sharing the joy of creativity each year at https://heffalumpdezign.com. Currently writer in residence for Westwords, Wedderburn and artist poet @flywaterleaflight.com.au. A mid-career designer and artist pivoting into fine art and fiction writing. You can follow her as lathaliahopesong on Instagram and Twitter: Hope Song@flywaterleaf.
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Virginia Muzik is a copywriter, proofreader and feature writer with a Bachelor of Communication (UTS). Her short-form memoir and features have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Big Issue, Stereo Stories and Months to Years. She has written for Newtown Review of Books, and the anthologies, Grieve Vol. 10 (2022: Hunter Writers Centre), Product 45 (2015: Murray Bennett) and Dogs that Make a Difference (2014: Penguin Books Australia). Virginia’s writing explores grief, the body and self, music (as a consumer and singer), and living with complex trauma and chronic pain. She’s based in Sydney on unceded Gadigal land.
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Alle’s qualifications: B.A.(S.U.) English/Australian Literature and Language; M.A.(S.U.) Australian Literature; Dip.Ed.(S.T.C.) Library Science and English. She trained English teachers for 25 years in the Teachers’ Education Program (Macquarie University). She taught and marked HSC English at all levels for 25 years leading to expertise in the study and analysis of literature/media, text-types, starting/sustaining writing, copy editing, proof-reading, researching, rewriting and overcoming writers' block. She has experience writing responses to all texts/text-types required for HSC study and in judging written responses at HSC marking operations. She has published poetry, short stories, study notes, and researched for her historical novels.
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Lauren is a very experienced book editor with an excellent reputation in trade publishing in Australia and the UK. She specialises in commercial fiction because she loves working with stories that entertain, engage, comfort and thrill readers – and with the writers who create them. She is approachable, supportive and constructive, making suggestions that will help tighten and lift novels so that they achieve their story goals and keep readers engaged. Lauren has worked in-house and freelance with many publishers in Australia, the UK and the USA, as well as with independent (self-publishing) authors and aspiring authors.
Website: https://laurenfinger.com/

As an experienced copywriter, proofreader and copyeditor, Christina King also works as a writer of historical fiction, with a focus on colonial Australia and on late eighteenth-century Britain. Christina enjoys reading and telling stories of forgotten voices from history, as well as non-fiction accounts of events and people from these periods. Christina has extensive experience working with teams on collaborative, creative copywriting projects as well as proofreading and copyediting documents, both short and long-form. Christina's short story, 'The Ink Stain' won the 2019 Historical Novel Society of Australasia's short story competition.
Website: http://www.christinaking.com.au/

Simone Amelia Jordan is Australia's most successful hip-hop journalist. She has contributed to The Source, VIBE, Rolling Stone, ABC and SBS, and her celebrity interviews have notched over 13 million YouTube views. Simone founded and edited Australia’s highest-selling rap/R&B newsstand title, Urban Hitz. In 2021, Simone won the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. She mentors the next generation of multicultural talent through her work with Media Diversity Australia and Diversity Arts Australia and is resolute about hip-hop’s power to change the world. Tell Her She’s Dreamin’ is her first book.
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