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Ivy Ireland

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Ivy Ireland is the author of the poetry collections Incidental Complications (2007), Porch Light (2015), The Owl Inside (2020) and Tide (forthcoming, 2023). Ivy’s literary awards include the Australian Young Poet Fellowship, the Olga Masters Short Story Award, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Thunderbolt Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize local award, and runner-up in the UC International Poetry Prize. Ivy completed her PhD in 2012 and her poetry, short fiction, essays and reviews have been widely published in journals and anthologies. Ivy enjoys teaching, editing and running workshops for aspiring writers.
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Eila Jameson-Avey

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Having taught most of her working life, Eila Jameson-Avey embraced her love of writing and research in her 50s—never too old to change your spots. Since then, she’s published a middle-grade thriller, Simon Goes to Spain (2019), and an adult thriller, Wellworth, which was published in July 2023. In 2021 she won the prestigious national Lane Cove Literary Award for memoir. Her love of education sent her back to school and she recently completed a Graduate Certificate in W&L. You can follow her antics at eilajamesonavey.com or on her Facebook page or on Instagram.
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Website: https://eilajamesonavey.com/

Simone Amelia Jordan

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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/

Ashley Kalagian Blunt

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Ashley Kalagian Blunt is a bestselling author and speaker living with chronic illness. Her psychological thriller, Dark Mode, is published in Australia and the UK, and forthcoming in Germany and South Korea. Her previous books are How to Be Australian, a memoir, and My Name Is Revenge, a thriller novella and collected essays. My Name Is Revenge was shortlisted for the 2019 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards and was a finalist in the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award. Her writing appears in Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, Overland, Australian Book Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Openbook, Kill Your Darlings, and more. She was shortlisted for the 2018 Impress Prize for New Writers and the 2017 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award. An award-winning speaker, Ashley has appeared at Sydney Writers’ Festival and Brisbane Writers’ Festival, and is a Moth StorySLAM winner. She co-hosts James and Ashley Stay at Home, a podcast about writing, creativity and health, and was a judge in the 2020 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship. With a decade of experience in teaching and curriculum design, she now teaches creative writing courses and mentors emerging writers. She has a Master of Research in creative writing.
Website: https://www.ashleykalagianblunt.com

Irveen Kaur

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Irveen Kaur is a writer specialising in YA fantasy, literary fiction and short stories. She is the founder of Novelly - a business that runs one-on-one sessions with emerging writers to help them develop their manuscripts. Irveen has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Creative Writing) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and has experience teaching creative writing to kids aged 11-14 for the past 2 years. Her in-person creative writing workshops are currently held at UTS, Ku-ring-gai Community Centre, and Nirimba Fields.
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Website: https://novelly.com.au/

Christopher (Kit) Kelen

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Kit Kelen is a poet and painter, resident on Worimi country, in the Myall Lakes region of NSW. He has published more than a dozen volumes of poetry in English over the last thirty years, as well as books of poetry in a dozen languages other than English. His most recent painting/drawing exhibition was Rompitaj Labirintoj / Bung Mazes, held at the Shop Gallery in Sydney in 2022. This was accompanied by a bilingual (Esperanto and English) book of the same title. Kelen’s latest English language poetry volume is Book of Mother (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022).
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Gabriella Kelly-Davies

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An award-winning biographer, Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies has studied biography and history at the Australian National University (ANU) and was a visiting doctoral student at Oxford University’s Centre for Life Writing in 2023. Gabriella has studied narrative nonfiction at Sydney University and creative writing at the University of Technology (Sydney). Her biography, Breaking Through the Pain Barrier. The Extraordinary Life of Dr Michael J. Cousins formed the creative component of Gabriella’s doctorate. The theoretical component was a dissertation titled: ‘Choices, Choices, Choices: One Biographer’s Experience’. It explored many of Gabriella’s choices while crafting Breaking Through the Pain Barrier. One PhD examiner wrote: ‘Thank you for inviting me to examine this outstanding thesis. I found it an absolute page-turner.’ Another examiner remarked: ‘Gabriella ranks high on my list of biographers whose work I admire and enjoy. Her prose style is a joy to read. She writes with clarity and grace. As I read the thesis, there were many times when I paused to enjoy the eloquent prose. Her work is a model for other biographers. The project is an exemplar.’ Gabriella is the founder and host of the literary podcast, ‘Biographers in Conversation’, which includes interviews with biographers about the multiplicity of choices they make while crafting life stories. The podcast’s first 87 episodes attracted from listeners from 100 countries.

Websites: https://www.shareyourlifestory.com.au/ and https://www.biographersinconversation.com/


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Christina King

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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/

Lee Kofman

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Dr Lee Kofman is a Russian-born, Israeli-Australian author based in Melbourne. Lee holds a PhD in social sciences and MA in creative writing. She is the author of three fiction books, and memoirs Imperfect (Affirm Press, 2019), which was shortlisted for the Nib Literary Award 2019, and The Dangerous Bride (Melbourne University Press, 2014), which was included in Best Books 2014 (The Age and Australian Book Review) and 2015 (The Age). Lee is the editor of Split (Ventura Press, 2019), which was longlisted for ABIA Awards 2020, and co-editor of Rebellious Daughters (Ventura Press, 2016), anthologies of personal essays by prominent Australian authors. Her short works have been published in Australia, Scotland, UK, Israel, the USA and Canada. Her blog about writing was a finalist for Best Australian Blogs 2014. She teaches writing and mentors writers. Her most recent book is The Writer Laid Bare (Ventura Press, 2022).
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Website: https://leekofman.com.au/

Benjamin Kooyman

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Benjamin Kooyman has a PhD in English from Flinders University, focusing on film adaptations of Shakespeare. He is an experienced editor and proofreader who has edited journal articles, Masters, and PhD dissertations across multiple disciplines. He is also a published author with articles and reviews in The Conversation, as well as books, book chapters, and academic journal articles.
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Alexandra L

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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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Jodi Lamanna

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Jodi has worked extensively in research around equity and disability, and she has also worked in disability advocacy and policy and has a strong working knowledge of human rights documents around disability and equity. For sensitivity reading, Jodi brings her lived experience of neurodivergence, especially with autism and ADHD. Jodi also brings her expertise around disability and the overlap with academic giftedness. With regard to editing, Jodi has edited and proofread books, academic articles, and story manuscripts. Her work includes being a co-editor on a book about Career Development Learning published through Springer, editing and proofreading the non-fiction book Arriving Late: The lived experience of women receiving a late autism diagnosis, and many academic articles and policy documents. Jodi’s area of speciality in proofreading is children’s books, poetry, non-fiction and memoir. Jodi qualifications include a Bachelor of Creative Arts, a Graduate Certificate of Professional Writing, a Master of Teaching (English and Music), and a PhD that explores giftedness. She is currently studying a Master of Creative Writing.
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Website: https://vintagetext.com.au/pages/services-editing-and-proofreading

Michelle Law

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Michelle Law is a writer and actor – working in print, screen and stage – currently based on Gadigal Land. Her works include the plays, Single Asian Female (La Boite Theatre Company), Top Coat (Sydney Theatre Company), and Miss Peony (Belvoir St Theatre); the television shows Homecoming Queens (SBS) and Safe Home (SBS); and the book Asian Girls are Going Places (Hardie Grant). Her awards include two Australian Writers Guild Awards, the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award, and the Arts & Culture 40 Under 40 Awards, which celebrates the country’s most influential Asian Australians. Michelle is also a widely published freelance author and a prolific speaker who regularly appears on panels and at festivals.
Website: http://michelle-law.com/

Hayley Lawrence

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Hayley Lawrence is a critically-acclaimed author and lawyer living on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales with her husband and five half-wild daughters. Haunted by her experiences as a lawyer and mother, Hayley’s young adult novels explore complex themes in accessible ways. Hayley’s debut novel, Inside the Tiger, shortlisted for the Vogel Literary Prize, was published in 2018. Subsequent critically acclaimed novels include Ruby Tuesday, Skin Deep and Children's Book Council of Australia Honour Book (2023) The Other Side of Tomorrow. What They Told Me, published in 2024, will be Hayley’s fifth novel. 
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Eleanor Limprecht

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Eleanor is the author of four novels: The Coast (Allen & Unwin, 2022), The Passengers (Allen & Unwin, 2018), Long Bay (Sleepers Publishing, 2015) and What Was Left (Sleepers Publishing, 2013, shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal). Her short fiction and essays have been published various places including Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Sydney Noir, Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings and The Big Issue. She’s been the recipient of various residencies, scholarships and grants including from the Australia Council, Copyright Agency, Varuna and the Australian Society of Authors. Eleanor was a lecturer in creative writing at UTS and now teaches novel writing at the Faber Academy. She is the Chair of Writing NSW. Areas of interest include: historical fiction, family history, archives, contemporary fiction, short fiction, memoir and narrative non-fiction.
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Website: https://eleanorlimprecht.com

Alle Lloyd

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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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Amy Lovat

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Amy Lovat is the author of Mistakes and Other Lovers (Pan Macmillan 2023) and the founder of online bookstore Secret Book Stuff. She has a PhD from the University of Newcastle where she's taught creative writing and the humanities for almost a decade. Amy is a professional editor and proofreader and has worked as a copywriter, subeditor and ghostwriter. She’s the former Program Manager of Writing NSW and current Program Manager of the Newcastle Writers Festival. Amy loves mentoring emerging writers, helping people tell stories with heart, and immersing herself in books and words.
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Website: https://amylovat.com

Ashley Lowe

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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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Website: http://inthethickofit.substack.com/

Emily Maguire

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Emily Maguire is the author of six novels, including the Stella Prize and Miles Franklin shortlisted An Isolated Incident, and three non-fiction books. Emily’s articles and essays on sex, feminism, culture and literature have been published widely including in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Observer and The Age. Emily works as a teacher and as a mentor to emerging and established writers, was the 2018/2019 Writer-in-Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney and is the 2023 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University. Her latest book is the novel Love Objects.
Website: https://www.emilymaguire.com.au

Sarah Malik

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Sarah Malik is a Walkley award winning senior investigative journalist, author and broadcaster, with two decades of media experience. She is the creator and EP of the SBS podcasts My Ramadan and The SBS Book Club. She also co-hosted and co-produced Let Me Tell You (winner of the gold Best Arts/Culture podcast at the 2022 Australian Podcast awards, and honoree at the 2023 Webby Awards), and the New Writers Room podcast. Her New Writers Room interview with Larissa Behrendt and Jazz Money was awarded bronze for Best Interview at the 2022 Australian podcast awards. Her work focuses on domestic violence, asylum and in its intersection with gender and race. She has been featured in the Sydney Review of Books, New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. She has also produced and presented programs for ABC Radio National and Al Jazeera. Her debut memoir Desi Girl: On feminism, race, faith and belonging was published by UQP 2022. Her second book Safar: Muslim women’s stories of travel and transformation was published by Hardie Grant. In 2023 she was a keynote speaker for International Women’s Day at UTS speaking on the power of education, intersectionality and advancing women’s rights globally.
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Website: https://sarahbmalik.com/
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