Eugen Bacon MA, MSc, PhD is an African-Australian author of several novels and collections. She’s a British Fantasy Award winner, a Foreword Book of the Year Silver Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in the British Science Fiction Association, Aurealis, Ditmar and Australian Shadow Awards. Eugen was announced in the honour list of the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing by Transit Lounge Publishing made the Otherwise Award honour list as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Eugen’s creative work has appeared worldwide.
Website: http://eugenbacon.com/

Gabriella Kelly-Davies, an award-winning biographer, published Breaking Through the Pain Barrier: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Michael J. Cousins, the biography of Australia’s foremost pain medicine pioneer, in 2021. A doctoral student at Sydney University, she has studied biography at Oxford University’s Centre for Life Writing and the Australian National University. Every month, Gabriella convenes an international roundtable for science and medical biographers, and she will soon launch Biographers in Conversation, a weekly podcast of interviews with biographers about how they seamlessly integrate science and medicine into life stories. Gabriella also ghostwrites family histories and memoirs. 
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Website: http://www.shareyourlifestory.com.au/

Jodi is an author of feel-good women's fiction and has published both independently and traditionally. Her second novel The Five Year Plan was short listed in Booktopia's FAB awards in 2021. Jodi is also a writing mentor, and host of the bite-sized writing podcast, Ask The Author. A vocal supporter of women authors, particularly those writing genre fiction, Jodi is particularly passionate about growing the standard and accessibility of independent publishing in Australia. Jodi's latest novel, Reinventing Emily Brown was published in September 2023. 
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Website: http://www.jfgibson.com.au/

Bettina Deda is a content writer with a background in public relations and business management, specialising in architecture, design, construction, and wellness. She is the author of Downsize with Style (self-published in 2014) and Dare to Dance - a midlife memoir, commercially published in 2022. The first chapter of her memoir was also published in The Turning Point (2021) after being successful in a writing competition. She edited the business book Construction Scrum. Bettina offers writing coaching, ghostwriting and editing and helps authors get their business books published through the collaborative initiative WriteTellSell.
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Website: https://bettinadeda.com/

Melissa is a writer, editor, proofreader and English teacher. She has Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Deakin University, a Bachelor of Education (Primary and Early Childhood), and post graduate degrees in editing, publishing and psychological science. Melissa has an unwavering passion for the written word and a profound love of storytelling.
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Jonathan Cant is a Sydney-based writer, poet, and musician. He won the 2023 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards for Contemporary Poetry, was Longlisted for the 2023 Fish Poetry Prize and the 2022 Flying Islands Poetry Manuscript Prize, and Commended in the W. B. Yeats Poetry Prize. Jonathan’s poems have appeared in Cordite, Live Encounters, and Otoliths. His short stories have featured in publications as diverse as Playboy to Australia’s leading flyfishing magazine, FlyLife. Over the past two decades, Jonathan has also worked as a copywriter in the advertising and not-for-profit sectors; and is available for work on a freelance/project basis.
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Alice is a former lawyer and an experienced professional writer and editor who specialises in the legal publication area. As a fast and accurate writer, over the past 10 years, she has also written copy for sales and marketing teams. She has a deep interest and understanding of women’s issues in getting older and wrote Every Woman’s Guide to Retirement to meet the need for a comprehensive and practical guide to managing post-retirement challenges. Consequently, Alice has given many talks to community groups about retirement and elder law. In her spare time, Alice writes short stories which occasionally get published. 
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Website: https://www.manteladvisory.com.au/

Vivian Pham is a Vietnamese novelist, essayist and poet from south-western Sydney. In high school she wrote a novel called The Coconut Children, which was published in March 2020 by Penguin Random House. In 2021, she won the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist Award and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year for her work. She has twice attended the International Congress of Youth Voices, a summit for young activists nominated by nonprofits around the world for their writing and engagement. She is currently perfecting writing the film and stage adaptations of The Coconut Children.
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Website: https://www.instagram.com/long.live.viv/

Keith is a speculative fiction writer, editor and publisher. His short fiction has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Aurealis Magazine, Oceans of the Mind and Agog! Fantastic Fiction. His novels include Horizon, an SF thriller, and The Lenticular Series space opera trilogy. He was editor of Aurealis Magazine from 2001 to 2004 and publisher with Australian independent press Coeur de Lion Publishing from 2006 onwards. He also hosted the Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction (TISF) Podcast and edited and produced Dimension6 speculative fiction electronic magazine. His book reviews have appeared in Aurealis Magazine and the Newtown Review of Books.
Website: https://www.keithstevenson.com/