Richard Cornish is an award-winning food writer, author, creative director and events host. He is well known in the food scene as an independent writer and commentator on food issues.   His vision for sustainable food events that helped create food communities and offer great experiences to guests have been part of the Melbourne Food […]

Professor Donna Lee Brien is Professor of Creative Industries at Central Queensland University. With a Masters and PhD in writing biography, Donna has written many articles and other publications on food writers and food writing, including most recently, in The Conversation on pickling at home and the history of porridge. Her most recent books include:Paradoxes […]

Kirsten Tranter is an internationally acclaimed author, editor, and critic based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and co-founder of the Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing. Kirsten is the author of the novels Hold (2016), longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Voss Literary Award, A Common Loss (2012), and The Legacy (2010, […]

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Alexandra Nahlous is a leading freelance book editor, with twenty years’ experience in editing and publishing. She is known in the publishing industry for her expertise in commercial fiction, including women’s fiction, young adult and junior fiction, and literary fiction. She has edited bestselling and award-winning novels, and in 2009-10, she won the Beatrice Davis Editorial […]

Mark Macleod is the author of picture books for children, as well as poems for children and adults. President and Publishing Director of Dirt Lane Press, he has been Publishing Director for Random House and Publisher at Hachette Australia. A former national president of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, Mark has won awards for distinguished service to Children’s Literature and for many titles published […]

Sharon Clarke is an academic and a writer who recently moved house from Sydney to the NSW south coast.  She gained her BA (Hons) and Ph.D. at University of Wollongong and was the Academic Director of Boston University Sydney Programs for over 20 years until she began the road to retirement in January 2017. Her […]

Kim Knuckey is a Sydney actor and director with a keen interest in the stage work of Sumner Locke Elliott.  He compiled an event for New Theatre which celebrated Locke Elliott’s most famous (and notorious) play, Rusty Bugles.  Knuckey has been acting in Sydney, Melbourne and the UK for 30 years. Kim was in the films […]

Margaret Fink is an Australian film producer, noted for her important role in the revival of Australian cinema in the 1970s. Her productions include The Removalists (1975), My Brilliant Career (1979), For Love Alone (1986), Edens Lost (1988) (for TV), and Candy (2006).