Frank Heimans is a documentary filmmaker, oral history producer and interviewer. Since the 1970s he has recorded more than 1,000 oral history interviews and directed and produced over fifty television documentaries for his company, Cinetel Productions. He was the founding producer, writer, director and editor of Australian Biography (broadcast on SBS Television) and produced the […]

Alina Haque is our new membership intern. She is currently studying Political Science and English Literature at the University of Sydney and has worked and volunteered for a range of Australian non-for-profits in the Policy and Advocacy, Education, and Literature sectors.

Eunice Andrada is a Filipina poet and teaching artist. Her debut poetry collection Flood Damages won the Anne Elder Award (2018) and was shortlisted in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (2019).

Robin M Eames is a queercrip poet and historian living on Gadigal land. Their work has been published in Cordite, Overland, Meanjin, APJ, and Deaf Poets Society, among others. They are currently working on a PhD at the University of Sydney, examining histories of madness and trans pathologisation in 19th-20th century Australia.

Tracy Sorensen is the current Judy Harris Writer in Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. She is currently writing a cancer memoir from the point of view of her affected abdominal organs. Her novel, The Lucky Galah (Picador 2018) was longlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin award. Now an “ostomate” […]

Omar Sakr is an award-winning Arab Australian poet, the son of Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. His debut collection, These Wild Houses (Cordite, 2017) was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award and the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His new book, The Lost Arabs (UQP, 2019), has been shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and the John Bray Poetry Award. […]

Wai Chim is the Chinese-American-Australian author of a number of children’s and YA titles, including The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling, which was a Kirkus Prize Finalist in the US and was Shortlisted for the Prime Minister Literary Awards in 2020. She appeared as a contestant on Australian Survivor: Brains vs Brawn. Last-Place Lin, […]

Laura Jones is Jessica Anderson’s daughter. She is a screenwriter, whose films include An Angel At My Table; The Portrait of a Lady; Oscar & Lucinda; The Well; Angela’s Ashes; and High Tide. She is the recipient of the Australian Writers’ Guild Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.

Geordie Williamson is publisher of Picador Australia. He is the former chief literary critic of The Australian and outgoing editor of Best Australian Essays. In 2012 he published The Burning Library, a collection of essays on neglected Australian authors, including Jessica Anderson.