Hazel Lam is a Senior Book Designer at HarperCollins Australia. Hazel, whose breathtaking designs have earned her the titles of 2018 Emerging Designer of the Year and 2019 Book of the Year (for The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart), has designed covers and internals for an impressive range of fiction, non-fiction, illustrated books, YA and […]

Lou Garcia-Dolnik is an emerging writer and editor working on Gadigal Land. They are the editor of Hermes and Prose Team Leader for ARNA Journal. An incumbent 2019 Toolkits: Poetry participant, they have previously been published in Voiceworks.

Stewart Sheargold’s short stories have appeared in various collections for Obverse Books. His first book for children, The World of Lies, was published in 2018. He wrote the audio plays Bernice Summerfield and The Mirror Effect and Doctor Who: Red. Longlisted for the 2017 Hachette Richell Prize and the 2018 Disquiet Literary Prize, he is […]

Izabella Antoniou is a Sydney-based writer and cooking tutorial enthusiast with a background in marketing and content production. She is currently researching for her latest academic work centred around Bosnian ethno-religious practices. You can find her on Twitter @Izo_Ant.

Cheryl Akle is the founder of Better Reading, Australia’s largest online book community reaching over 500,000 people daily. Passionate about books, she is a strong advocate for Australian authors, a champion of reading and has been a leading figure in the book industry for over 30 years. Using multiple platforms to attract a loyal audience, her […]

Tess Pearson’s poetry, fiction, and microlit can be found in Southerly, Cordite, Rabbit, Scum Mag, and Swamp, among others, as well as a number of anthologies. Tess has been the recipient of a Varuna Fellowship, winner of the 2017 NWF/SW joanne burns Microlit Award, and a selected participant for the 2018 Fiction Edition of Hardcopy: […]

Katherine Collette is a Melbourne-based writer and sewerage engineer. Her first novel, The Helpline, was released in Australia, the UK, North America and Italy. She is currently working on her second novel.

Kate Mildenhall is a writer and teacher. Her debut novel, Skylarking, published in Australia and the UK, was named in Readings bookstore’s Top Ten Fiction Books of 2016 and longlisted for Debut Fiction in The Indie Book Awards 2017 and the 2017 Voss Literary Award.

Tohby Riddle is an internationally known creator of over 20 picture books. He has won or been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards five times and the CBCA Awards eight times, and won awards from the APA for book design. He also spent seven years as an editor at The School Magazine. His latest […]