Claire Albrecht is an award-winning poet and editor based on Wiradjuri Country, Australia. She was the 2019 Emerging Writers Festival fellow at the State Library of Victoria, a 2020 Varuna ‘Writing Fire, Writing Drought’ fellow, a resident at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico in 2022, and a Varuna/The Bridge Awards Climate Fellow in 2024. […]

Devika Brendon is an editor, a reviewer, and a creative writer of poetry, short fiction, essays, academic articles and opinion pieces, which have been published widely in international digital and print publications, including Quadrant Magazine, The Hopkins Review, and anthologies and journals in India, Australia and Sri Lanka. Her first novel, ‘Aversion’, was published last […]

Katherine Day is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in Publishing Practice at the University of Melbourne. She has over 15 years’ experience as an editor – in-house at Penguin Books (Australia) and then as a freelance adult fiction and non-fiction editor for Penguin Random House, Allen & Unwin, Thames and Hudson and the University of […]

Julie Ganner AE is an accredited editor over 30 years’ experience in the publishing industry. She runs her own freelance editing business, lectures in editing and proofreading at The University of Sydney, and provides professional training in accessible publishing for writers, editors and publishers. Julie is an honorary life member of the Institute of Professional […]

Lee J Mavin is the author of The Students Sold Us Secrets volumes One and Two (he’s working on volume three now) and The Intergalactic Custody Battle. He holds annual the Students Told Us Secrets Short story Competition for ages 12-18 and he has also taught Japanese, Chinese fiction, ESL and creative writing from primary […]

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 has taught creative writing at UNSW and UTS for over a decade, assessed and mentored authors and manuscripts for the ASA, assessed grants for […]

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 […]