Martyn Reyes is a Filipino-Australian writer and artist working on Gadigal land. He explores various intersections of identity in the form of creative nonfiction and fiction. His work can be found in the Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings, SBS Voices, LIMINAL Magazine and more. 

Patricia Arcilla is a Filipino-Australian writer who lives and works on unceded Gadigal land. She writers about cities, culture, and the Filipinx diaspora and her work has appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Jacobin, The Sydney Review of Books, Overland, and more.

Jordan Shea (he/him) is a Filipino-Australian writer and teacher who works across theatre, screen and non-fiction. A graduate of the VCA, his work includes Kasama Kita (Belvoir 25a/aya), Ate Lovia (Old Fitz/kwento), The House at Boundary Road, Liverpool (bontom) and Cage (Old 505). Jordan’s work has been developed extensively with Belvoir, STC, Australian Plays Transform, […]

Michelle Cahill (she/they) is a poet and novelist of Indian heritage. She was the 2023 Hedberg Writer in Residence at the University of Tasmania. Her short story collection, Letter to Pessoa was awarded the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing. Daisy & Woolf was longlisted in the ALS Gold Medal and the Voss Literary Prize. She has […]

Ivy Ireland is the author of the poetry collections The Owl Inside (2020), Porch Light (2015), and Incidental Complications (2007). Ivy has worked as a bookstore owner, magician’s assistant, harpist, cabaret performer and tutor in Creative Writing. Ivy’s literary awards include the Australian Young Poet Fellowship, the Olga Masters Short Story Award, the Harri Jones […]

Lea Redfern is a lecturer with the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, specialising in audio and podcasting. Lea is known for her innovative creative and student-centred teaching. She is passionate about the possibilities of audio and energised by the creative freedom of podcasting.

Ashley Kalagian Blunt is the number one bestselling author of Dark Mode, which was released in multiple territories and languages and shortlisted for the 2024 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel, the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and the Danger Award for Best Crime Debut. Her earlier books include How to Be Australian, a memoir, and My […]

Rodney Graham Turner is a proud Yiidhuwarra man from the Lamalama Nation of the Princess Charlotte Bay region of Far North Queensland. Born and raised on Yuggera Country of Brisbane, before relocating to the land of the Gadigal in 1989. He has dedicated the last 30 years of his life learning to cultural immersion, off […]

Greg Woodland is a former filmmaker who now works as script editor, screenwriter, and director of online script development business (www.scriptcentral.com.au). He’s taught screenwriting at film schools and unis including AFTRS, UTS, Macquarie University, and Australian Film Base, where he currently teaches a short course. Happily, Greg is also an author: his first crime novel, […]