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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Website: http://www.virginiamuzik.com/

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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Website: http://www.simoneameliajordan.com/

Alexandra is passionate about all forms of writing. The ability to use words to provide further learning, create stories, tales and new worlds. Being able to transport yourself and others into your own creation provides a new perspective to the world and all that we may face. Alexandra has yet to publish her first novel but has immersed herself in the writing world for the past 10 years; gaining significance in copywriting, editing, proofreading and understanding the current market for authors and stories.
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Julie Thorndyke is a graduate of the University of Sydney’s Master of Creative Writing program. Her collections of tanka poetry, Rick Rack, Carving Granite and Borrowed Riches were published by Ginninderra Press. Editor of Eucalypt: a tanka journal since 2017, Julie’s books include Mrs Rickaby’s Lullaby (novel) and Divertimento (short stories). Julie’s picture books Waiting for the Night (2018) and Watching through the Day (2020) were published by IPKidz. Her third picture book Alice’s Shoe was published by MidnightSun Publishing in 2023. It tells the true story of deafblind girl Alice Betteridge, who became known as ‘Australia’s Helen Keller’. 
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Catherine McCullagh has published three non-fiction books, Willingly into the Fray (2010), a history of Australian Army nursing, War Child (2016), a wartime memoir, and Unconquered (2019), stories from the 2018 Invictus Games. Catherine’s first historical novel, Dancing with Deception (2017), was re-released in 2022. Her second novel, Secrets and Showgirls (2021), was followed by Love and Retribution (2022) and Resistance and Revenge (2023). Her areas of interest centre on wartime history, particularly daily life during periods of conflict such as World War I and II, and the impact of conflict on society and the individual.  
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Website: https://www.facebook.com/catherinemccullaghauthor

Bill is the author of Redesigning Conversations: A Guide to Communicating Effectively in the Family, Workplace, and Society and Redesigning Conversations Workbook: Self-Coaching Questions for Parents, Leaders, and Coaches. Bill's one-stop-shop books offer user-friendly skills to help you have effective conversations in your family, workplace, and society. The Workbook focuses on self-coaching questions, exercises, and case studies for parents, leaders, teachers, and coaches that are also useful for coaching others and for facilitating groups, whether around the dinner table or in workshops and work teams.
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Website: http://www.billash.com.au/