Sam Cooney runs the literary organisation TLB, which houses the independent book press Brow Books and quarterly literary magazine, The Lifted Brow. He is publisher-in-residence at RMIT, has taught sessionally at several universities, and is a freelance writer and literary critic. In 2017 he took part in the Australia Council’s ‘Future Leaders’ professional development program, […]

Dr Inga Simpson is a novelist and nature writer. Her latest novel, Willowman (Hachette, 2022), about the art of cricket batmaking, was longlisted for the 2023 Indie book award for fiction and shortlisted for the BookPeople adult fiction book of the year. Her previous novel, The Last Woman in the World (Hachette, 2021) was shortlisted for the Margaret and […]

Ron Pretty’s eighth book of poetry, The Left Hand Mirror, was published by Pitt Street Poetry in 2017. The third edition of his Creating Poetry was published by PSP in 2015 and reviewed in Australian Book Review in March 2016. He published 230 books by Australian poets in the 20 years 1987-2007 as publisher for […]

Thang Ngo has been blogging for 17 years. His blog, noodlies, is one of Australia’s most influential food and lifestyle blogs. Blogging has resulted commissioned work for offline publications such as Good Food (the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age), Feast Magazine, the Drum (ABC) and Tiger Inflight magazine.

Miles Merrill writes and performs a mix of poetry, stories, lyrics and monologues. He does this internationally for festivals, private companies, cultural institutions, schools, libraries, theatre and music venues. Miles mainly performs solo but also collaborates with composers, musicians, film makers and visual artists. He publishes on CD, DVD, online and in print but is […]

Susan McKerihan spent 20 years as the plain English editor at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, helping consultants in all technical and specialist areas to write clear and concise reports. She now has her own business training, coaching and advising business people on how to improve the style and impact of their written work. She has a Master’s in […]

Sarah Krasnostein is a writer and a legal researcher with a doctorate in criminal law. She was born in America, studied in Melbourne and has lived and worked in both countries. Her first book, The Trauma Cleaner, won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards […]

Toni Jordan is the author of five novels. The international bestseller Addition was a Richard and Judy Bookclub pick and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Fall Girl was published internationally and has been optioned for film, and Nine Days was awarded Best Fiction at the Indie Awards, was shortlisted for the ABIA Best General Fiction award and was […]

Kate Holden is the author of The Winter Road: A killing at Croppa Creek (Black Ink, 2021). Her memoirs In My Skin (2005) and The Romantic (2010) were bestsellers published by Text Publishing and internationally. Kate wrote a popular column for The Age for several years and has widely published essays, short stories, and literary […]