Amra Pajalić is an award-winning author, editor and teacher who draws on her Bosnian cultural heritage to write Own Voices stories for young people, who like her, are searching to mediate their identity and take pride in their diverse culture. Amra Pajalić won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Civic Choice Award for her debut […]

Rico Craig is a poet, writer and workshop facilitator. His poetry has been awarded or shortlisted for many prizes including the Montreal Poetry Prize, the Moth Poetry Prize, and the Val Vallis, Newcastle, and Woorilla poetry prizes. Bone Ink (UWAP), his first poetry collection, was winner of the 2017 Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for […]

Amani Haydar is an award-winning writer and visual artist. Her debut memoir The Mother Wound received the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction, the ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, and the Michael Crouch Award for Debut Work at the National Biography Awards. Amani is a former Archibald Prize finalist […]

Belinda Castles is the author of four novels and winner of the Australian/Vogel’s and Asher literary awards, as well as being named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists. Her most recent novel, Bluebottle, was long-listed for the Stella Prize. She is the editor of the collection Reading like an Australian Writer and is working […]

Anna Spargo-Ryan is a Melbourne writer whose latest book A Kind of Magic, a memoir about life with complex mental illness, was shortlisted in the Queensland Literary Awards. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and has been teaching writing for over 10 years. She is also the author of two novels, was the inaugural […]

Eliza Henry-Jones is an author and freelance writer. She has a PhD in creative writing, and has published five novels, which have been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, QLD Literary Awards and Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. She has qualifications in psychology as well as grief, loss and trauma counselling, and has worked […]

Anna started her publishing career as editor for a literary agency in London. As Fiction Publisher for HarperCollins and Voyager she looks after a wide list of Australian authors including Dervla McTiernan, Dinuka McKenzie, Belinda Alexandra, Kylie Chan, Daniel O’Malley and more. She is looking for fresh spins on classic tropes in fantasy and spec […]

Scott Wilson is a Gooniyandi and Gajerrong man from the Kimberley and recently became the co-creator/writer of The Indigiverse comic series. The Indigiverse is about the oldest living cultures inspiring the newest living superheroes. It is an opportunity for people to gain a glimpse of the rich culture that has existed and continues to exist […]

Anthony O’Connor is an Australian writer of genre-bending movies and books. He wrote original screenplays for the inner-city black comedy Angst and the blood-soaked office horror Redd Inc. (aka Inhuman Resources in the US/UK). More recently, O’Connor released the post-apocalyptic cult classic novel Straya (currently in development as an animated series) and genre-bending YA ghost […]