Geordie Timmins is an aspiring writer living in Sydney, NSW. Currently studying his honours in Creative Writing, Geordie has a passion for writing, reading, music and film. He is greatly inspired by the modernist writers of the early 20th century, and contemporary gothic fiction. Constantly acquiring books at a much higher rate than he can […]

Emma Viskic is author of the critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic series: Resurrection Bay; And Fire Came Down; Darkness For Light (2019). Her novels have been published worldwide and won numerous awards, including four Davitt Awards and a Ned Kelly Award. Emma undertook extensive research to write the character of Caleb Zelic, who is profoundly deaf, including […]

Rebecca Servadio leads London Literary Scouting, an international agency that scouts, reads, consults and recommends books for 24 publishers around the world as well as for BBC Film, the National Theatre and a portfolio of other media companies. Rebecca loves books and is fascinated by the multitude of ways to tell stories and translate them […]

Shaun Prescott is a novelist based in the Blue Mountains. His debut novel, The Town is published by Brow Books in Australia and Faber in the UK.

Caroline Overington is a two-time winner of the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism and a winner of the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism. A former NY correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, she is the author of non-fiction books, Kickback: Inside the AWB Scandal, which won the Blake Dawson […]

Elizabeth McMahon teaches and researches Australian literature and Island Studies at UNSW and is the editor of Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal. Her recent monograph Islands Identity and the Literary Imagination (2016) won two national awards and she is currently completing a book on cross-dressing in Australian Literature. She has co-edited three book collections: Remembering Patrick White; Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays; and Women Making Time. She is co-editing […]

French-Australian writer Sophie Masson is the award-winning and internationally-published author of over sixty books for children, young adults and adults. Sophie is a founding partner and publishing director of Christmas Press, an acclaimed publisher founded in Armidale in 2013, producing children’s illustrated books and children’s fiction in three imprints. A former Chair of the Australian […]

Originally from San Francisco, Pamela Malpas has been a New York-based agent for more than 20 years and currently holds a position with the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency. Over her career Pamela has worked with legendary literary estates and in the areas of suspense, thrillers, contemporary mystery and YA fiction. In addition to her US […]

Anna Low is an independent bookseller with 25 years experience. She has owned and run the Potts Point Bookshop in Sydney since 2007. She is a former Miles Franklin judge and currently serves on the board of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the ABA Kids’ Reading Guide panel. In 2016 she was the Text Bookseller […]