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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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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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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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/

Mark Marusic has been writing poetry since the mid 1990s. Four years ago he turned his versing to a longer format - a verse novel. Themes in his shorter poems include environment and home, and our relationships with these. His poems have been published in a range of journals and magazines. He has self-published two poetry books – Mercurial Meanderings and Iconoclastic Journeys, also co-publishing four anthologies – A Square Circle, and Poetsconsortorium; Anthology of Poets at the Petersham Bowlo (three volumes). He also writes short stories, plays, verse novels, prose novels and philosophy papers.
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Lisa is the author of seven adult and YA novels in the women’s fiction and crime genres. These were published in Australia by HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Wakefield Press. Two were also published in the US and UK, and one has been optioned for film. Her YA cosy crime novel was shortlisted for the 2020 Davitt Awards in two categories. She has also had a radio play produced on ABC Radio National and has a PhD in creative writing. Lisa has appeared at numerous writer's festivals in Australia and overseas and has presented writing workshops to adults and teenagers.
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Website: http://www.lisawalker.com.au/

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/

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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