Marele Day’s four-book Claudia Valentine crime series won her a Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.  Her bestselling literary gothic novel, Lambs of God, was published to international acclaim and is soon to be a major TV miniseries. Marele is a highly experienced teacher and mentor, and has served as judge for literary prizes including the […]

Writer/performer Jan Cornall has written 15 produced plays and musicals, a feature film, and two books set in Indonesia— a fictional memoir Take Me To Paradise, and a collection of poems and stories, Archipelagogo. Awarded several grants and fellowships, Jan has an MA in Cultural and Creative Practice and has taught writing at writer’s centres, […]

With more than twenty-five novels published internationally, primarily by Berkley USA (Penguin Random House), Melbournian Anne Gracie is a national bestseller in the USA. She has won many awards, and her books have been translated into more than eighteen languages. Several have been studied at tertiary level in Australia. A former teacher, Anne is also […]

Roanna Gonsalves is the author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP) published in India and South Asia as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney (Speaking Tiger).  The book won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award Multicultural Prize 2018 and was longlisted for the Dobbie Literary Award 2018. Her four-part radio series On the tip of a billion tongues, commissioned and broadcast […]

Catherine Armitage is chief editor of Nature Index at Nature Research. She is an award-winning journalist and editor whose work has won prizes across the fields of science, education, business, legal affairs and social affairs.

Karen McGhee has been a science and environment writer and editor for more than 20 years; has worked on books, magazines, documentaries and museum exhibitions for Australian and overseas audiences; and is presently the consulting editor of Australian Geographic magazine.

David Henley is director and publisher at Brio Books, and head of the Fantastica imprint. He is the author of a futuristic thriller, The Hunt for Pierre Junior (The Pierre Junior Omnibus).

Originally from Canberra, Myra is a Sydney-based author whose writing has been published in the Sydney University Anthology. Her interests range from environmental science to socio-legal research, and these themes are reflected in her writing. Myra was the 2019 Project & Communications Intern with Writing NSW.

Cathy Craigie is a Gamilaroi and Anaiwon woman from northern NSW and has worked in media and the arts for over 20 years. Cathy’s experience ranges across disciplines and she has worked in health, housing, environmental, legal, media and the arts. She is particularly interested in First Nations’ stories and their relevance today, and is currently developing a play transforming the Gamilaroi traditional […]