For ten years, Mitchell put off his dream of writing, then he quit his job and wrote A Crucible of Souls, winner of the 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. He now writes full-time, has published 12 novels, and is eternally grateful to the readers who took a chance on an unknown self-published author. […]

Ashley Hay is a Brisbane-based novelist and essayist whose awards include the Foundation of Australian Literary Studies’ Colin Roderick Award and the Peoples’ Choice from the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (for The Railwayman’s Wife), and the Bragg/UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing. Her latest novel is A Hundred Small Lessons. She is the editor of Griffith Review.

Beth Driscoll is Senior Lecturer in Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Her research on the publishing industry and contemporary fiction includes the book The New Literary Middlebrow and articles in Memoires du Livre/Studies in Book Culture, Continuum, the European Journal of Cultural Studies and the Journal of Popular Culture. She is a Chief Investigator on […]

Sam Cooney is publisher at independent book press Brow Books and quarterly literary magazine {The Lifted Brow} and is publisher-in-residence at RMIT University. In 2017 he took part in the Australia Council’s ‘Future Leaders’ professional development program, and last year he took part in the Australia Council publishing delegation tour of India, travelled to the USA […]

Alice Grundy is associate publisher at Brio Books and co-founder of Seizure, an incubator of Australian writing. For the past decade, she has worked in trade publishing with a focus on developing new talent. She has run workshops at festivals, universities and schools in Australia, India and China and written for the Sydney Review of […]

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 New South Wales writer whose work, across multiple genres, focuses on our relationship with the natural world. Her latest dystopian novel, The Thinning, was longlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Award for Fiction and the 2025 Stella Prize, while her previous novel, Willowman, about the art of cricket bat-making, was voted one […]

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.