Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri writer based in Australia and France. Her first novel Swallow the Air (UQP, 2006) was critically acclaimed. In 2008, she was mentored by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Her short-story collection After the Carnage (UQP) was published in 2016 […]

Lesley Hughes is Professor Emerita in Biology and Pro-Chancellor at Macquarie University. Her principal research interests have been the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems and the implications for conservation. She is a former Lead Author for the IPCC’s 4th and 5th Assessment Report, a former federal Climate Commissioner, a member of the […]

Luke Patterson is a Gamilaroi poet, musician and educator living on Gadigal lands. His poetry has appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Plumwood Mountain, Rabbit, Running Dog and The Suburban Review. He has also featured in the anthologies Active Aesthetics, Firefront: first nation’s poetry and power today, Best of Australian Poems 2021 and Nangamay Mana Djurali: […]

Dan Findlay is the author of Year of the Orphan, a speculative fiction novel set in outback Australia. Dan is an historian by training, a writer by trade, and has over ten years’ experience editing Australia’s leading youth magazines. He also has over fifteen years experience as a writer and photographer for a variety of […]

Ivy Shih is a science writer, producer and illustrator. A former researcher, she now loves exploring the crossover between science and society. Her work has appeared in Nature, Cosmos and the ABC astronomy podcast Cosmic Vertigo and she was editor of the 2022 The Best Australian Science Writing Anthology.

Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, which won the 2020 Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Book Award and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award, and the short story collection The Burnished Sun. Her work has appeared in Best […]

Jazz Money is a poet and artist of Wiradjuri heritage producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Across different mediums Jazz’s practice is centred around questions of narrative and legacy: place memory, First Nations memory, colonial memory and the stories that we tell to construct national and personal identity.  Their writing has […]

Maame Blue is a Ghanaian-Londoner and author of the novel Bad Love, which won the 2021 Betty Trask award, and was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize. Bad Love was published as part of Jacaranda’s #Twentyin2020 initiative, and in 2020 Maame also joined a scriptwriting team to remix a Venezuelan telenovela for African audiences.  Her […]

Sara M Saleh is a human rights lawyer, community organiser, writer, and the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon, living on Gadigal land. Her poems and short stories have been published in English and Arabic in various national and international outlets and anthologies including Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, Meanjin, Overland Journal, […]