Bianca Nogrady is a freelance science journalist and author with more than a decade of experience as a full-time freelancer writing for outlets such as ABC and BBC, Nature, Australian Geographic, the Australian, Scientific American, and Ecos. Bianca works from home in the Blue Mountains and wouldn’t give it up for any office job in […]

Anwen Crawford is a writer and visual artist based in Sydney. She is the author of No Document (Giramondo, 2021), shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize, and Live Through This (Bloomsbury, 2015). Her essays and criticism have appeared in a range of publications including The Monthly, Sydney Review of Books and The New Yorker.

Michael Sala was born in Holland and grew up moving between Europe and Australia. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, and his first novel, The Last Thread, was the winner of the UTS/Glenda Adams Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2013, and his second novel, The Restorer, was shortlisted for the fiction […]

Laurel Cohn is a developmental editor passionate about communication and the power of words to engage, inspire and challenge. Since the late 1980s Laurel has been helping writers of all types prepare their work for publication. She is a regular workshop presenter for peak writing organisations in Australia, and also teaches in Europe. She has a PhD in […]

Mark O’Flynn writes across a variety of forms – theatre, fiction, memoir and poetry. He has published several collections of poetry, most recently The Soup’s Song (Picaro, 2015), and Shared Breath (Hope Street Press, 2017). His novels include Grassdogs and The Forgotten World (both Harper Collins, 2006, 2013), and The Last Days of Ava Langdon […]

Pamela Hewitt is an accredited editor who has worked in editing and publishing for over 35 years. After an in-house career in educational and academic editing, she established a freelance editorial practice focusing on memoir, fiction and creative non-fiction. A qualified teacher, Pamela has presented editing and writing programs around Australia and internationally. Many manuscripts […]

Lee Powell is the creator of Scrivener for Windows & Linux, as well as the creator of Scapple for Windows. He is also the developer of the writing resource library, One Stop for Writers: onestopforwriters.com

John Mancy is an occasional writer of flash fiction, retired barrister, foreign correspondent (Papua New Guinea, Vietnam), founding editor of sundry periodicals, casual lecturer and author of  a legal encyclopaedia subtitle on Animals.

Kyra Thomsen is a writer from Wollongong, NSW. She was Deputy Editor of Writer’s Edit until 2017 and her work has been published in Kindling, Seizure, Space Place & Culture, Mascara and more. You can find more at kyrathomsen.com or on Twitter/Instagram with @KyraThomsen.