Tracee is an author who writes historical military fiction based on the lives of her ancestors. Her first book, One Hell at a Time, tells of her grandfather’s experiences in World War 1. Tracee also enjoys writing flash fiction and has been published in the Society of Women Writers Victoria anthology, SPARX. Throughout her life, she has pursued a diverse range of vocations, enriching her perspective on life, including community development, running her own business, activism, adult education, social work, and child protection. Tracee, an active member of several writing groups and organisations, lives in central Victoria. 
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Ally Burnham is an AWGIE-winning screenwriter, novelist and writer of comics. A​ NIDA graduate (2016, Masters, Writing for Performance), she is also the creative producer at WestWords - Western Sydney’s literature development organisation. She is best known for her feature film Unsound (2020, Netflix). The film won Best Australia Feature at the 2020 Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Best Fiction Feature Film at the 2020 ATOM Awards, and was nominated for Best Indie Feature at the 2020 AACTA awards. Ally is the lead writer for Metropius; her short film screenplay won Most Outstanding Animation at the 2022 AWGIE Awards.
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Website: http://www.allyburnham.com/

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.
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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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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/