Latai Taumoepeau is a Punake, body-centred performance artist; her story is of her homelands, the Island Kingdom of Tonga and her birthplace; the Eora Nation – Sydney, and everything far and in-between. She mimicked, trained and un-learned dance, in multiple institutions of knowledge, starting with her village, a suburban church hall, nightclubs and a university. […]

Brian Fuata is a Samoan writer and performance maker born in Wellington, New Zealand and works and lives in Sydney. Alongside his solo practice, he is part of the duo Wrong Solo with Agatha Gothe-Snape. Fuata has performed internationally and nationally, such as at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2017), Performa, New York (2015); Carriageworks, Sydney (2015); The […]

Amrita Hepi is an artist that works mainly with choreography and dance. She is from Bundjulung (Aus) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. She trained at NAISDA, then at Alvin Ailey NYC. An artist with a broad following and reach, her work has ranged from dance theatre to participatory lectures. In 2018 she was the recipient of […]

Emele Ugavule is a Tokelauan Fijian storyteller. Her research and practice area of interest is Oceanic Indigenous-led storytelling, working across live performance, film, tv & digital media as a writer, director, creative producer, performer, educator and mentor. Her work explores creative processes and outcomes grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, and nurturing the vā where […]

Winnie Dunn is a Tongan-Australian writer and community arts worker from Mt Druitt. She is the manager of Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement and the literary editor of The Big Black Thing and Bent not Broken: Ten Years of Creative Writing from the City of Canterbury Bankstown. Winnie’s essays and short stories have been published […]

Annie Zhang is a Chinese-Australian writer from southwest Sydney. She is the recipient of a 2019 WestWords Western Sydney Emerging Writer Fellowship. She won first prize in the ZineWest Writing Competition in 2018 and the Honi Soit Writing Competition in 2017. Her works have been published in Pencilled In and Sweatshop Women, amongst others. Find […]

Alexander Wells is the Membership Intern at Writing NSW.

Dr Beatriz Copello,is a former member of NSW Writers Centre Management Committee, writes poetry, reviews, fiction and plays. Beatriz’s poetry has been published in literary journals such as Southerly and Australian Women’s Book Review and in many feminist publications.  She has read her poetry at events organised by the Sydney Writers Festival, the NSW Writers […]

Annette Barlow is a publisher at Australia’s largest and most successful independent publishing house, Allen & Unwin. She has worked in the publishing industry for over 30 years, in bookshops, in sales, in editorial and for over 20 years as a publisher. Her list comprises fiction titles, including the twice Miles Franklin-winner Alex Miller and many successful […]