Shauna O’Meara is a three-time Aurealis Award finalist whose stories have been published in Interzone, Cosmos Magazine, On The Premises and Everything Change as well as several Australian anthologies.

Abigail has run Bothersome Words since 2004. She has edited for Australian publishers including HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Allen and Unwin, and Echo Publishing, as well as UK publishers including Angry Robot, Hachette and Gollancz, and small press in the USA. She works regularly with emerging and self-publishing writers as an […]

Catherine McKinnon is an award-winning writer of novels, plays and short stories. Her most recent novel, Storyland, was shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, the 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award and the 2018 Voss Literary Prize, longlisted for the 2018 Indie Book Awards, and was named one of ABC TV’s The Book Club’s Five of the Best in […]

Dionne Lister is USA Today’s bestselling fantasy and cozy mystery author. A Sydneysider, editor, avid reader, lover of good food and cats, she holds an associate degree of creative writing and self-published her first novel in 2012. She has since published numerous novels and still has her sanity, or so she likes to believe.

Robert Hood is an award-winning writer of various forms of speculative fiction, including horror, dark fantasy, weird, crime, and science fiction. Once referred to as “Aussie horror’s wicked godfather,” Robert’s most recent book is Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories, a massive work that covers his lengthy career, which was declared winner of the 2015 […]

Sam Hawke has wanted to write books ever since realising as a child that they didn’t just breed them in libraries. She is a lawyer by day, teaches Japanese jujitsu by night, and lives in Canberra with her husband, two miniature ninjas and two idiot dogs. Her debut epic fantasy, City of Lies, was released […]

Michael Gillings is a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University. His primary research area is evolutionary genetics, but he publishes and lectures on diverse topics, including the Anthropocene, biological diversity and conservation, the existential threats of digital technology, the human microbiome and the evolution of antibiotic resistance. His human biology classes attract more […]

Brendan Fredericks. Book head. Drinker. Word wrangler. Wannabe Muay Thai fighter. Publicist. Literary agent. Author manager. Director of BFredericksPR. Born and raised in Balmain, Brendan still lives in Sydney.

By day, Aaron Dries works as a mental health and homelessness case manager. By night, he writes. His novels include House of Sighs, its sequel The Sound of His Bones Breaking, Where the Dead Go to Die (with Mark Allan Gunnells), A Place for Sinners, and The Fallen Boys. His short fiction has been published […]