Monikka Eliah is an Assyrian writer and performer from Fairfield. She has participated in National Theatre of Parramatta’s Page to Stage program, CuriousWorks Breakthrough Screen Writing Program, Netflix and Co-curious’ On The Brightside Screenwriting Program and STC’s Rough Draft. Her work has been published in SBS Voices, Runway Journal, Southerly, Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted […]

Amanda Scotland first approached flash fiction as an accessible path back to creativity following a tragic family event which left her critically time and energy-poor. She became an instant devotee when she won the Australian Writers’ Centre’s Furious Fiction competition in August 2021. Since then, she has frequently longlisted in flash and micro fiction competitions, […]

Sunil Badami is a writer, broadcaster and academic, whose work has been published in Australia and overseas and featured in nearly every Australian media outlet, including ABC Radio and TV. He’s taught creative writing at UNSW and UTS for over a decade, assessed and mentored authors and manuscripts for the ASA, assessed grants for Copyright […]

Dinuka McKenzie is the author of the Detective Kate Miles crime series, The Torrent, Taken and Tipping Point, published in Australia and the UK. She is the winner of the 2020 HarperCollins Australia Banjo Prize. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, the Bad Sydney Crime Danger Awards, and longlisted for […]

Jacqx Melilli is an author, playwright, writing coach, and workshop presenter who loves helping people tell their life stories. She has a Master of Arts degree in Writing and Literature from Deakin University. Her specialisations include editing, creative non-fiction and fiction writing, publishing, scriptwriting, playwriting, and research. Jacqx worked in film, television, and theatre and […]

Publishing Director of Ultimo Press, Robert Watkins, has over 25 years experience in the Australian book industry having worked in book retail, sales, marketing, publicity, and publishing. His love for a good story well told has led to publishing some of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary authors including Shankari Chandran, Diana Reid, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Claire […]

Dr Robyn Ferrell is a writer and researcher, currently attached in cultural studies at the University of Sydney. She has taught art history and theory, cultural studies, philosophy and creative writing at several universities throughout Australia. She trained as a journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald before completing her doctorate in philosophy and aesthetics. Dr […]

Emma Darragh lives in Sydney on Gadigal Land and grew up in Wollongong, on Dharawal Country. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong, where she has worked as an academic since 2019. Her work has appeared in numerous Australian publications, and her debut novel-in-stories, Thanks for Having Me, won the […]

Bronwyn Lea is an award-winning poet and editor, described by The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics as a shaper of Australian poetry. She is the author of four acclaimed collections, including Flight Animals (UQP), The Other Way Out (Giramondo), and The Deep North (George Braziller). A former poetry editor at UQP and Meanjin, and […]