Cassie Watson was previously the Administration Officer at Writing NSW.

Isabel is the Production Manager at Hachette Australia. She has been making books beautiful with Hachette for almost a decade.

Catherine has worked in publishing for many years, including with Penguin Books, Allen & Unwin, and since 2012, with HarperCollins, where she is Head of Fiction.  She has an eclectic list, which includes literary fiction, crossover/bookclub fiction and narrative non-fiction.  Recent standouts include Julia Baird’s bestselling Victoria; Stan Grant’s Talking to My Country; the internationally acclaimed The Anchoress, by […]

Rodney Jensen is an author of speculative fiction. Visit him at his website and his Facebook page. He is a member of the Northern Beaches Writers Group (and has published contributions in one recent and two upcoming joint publications). He is a member of MEAA, ASA, NSW Writers’ Centre and holds a Doctorate in urban […]

Sherry is the current Membership & Development Officer at Writing NSW.

Jan Allerton has worked in many jobs, from clerk and typist to teacher, clinical psychologist and counsellor. These jobs have provided excellent training for writing about people. An even better background is a life of reading—mainly fiction. This is still her favourite pastime.  Jan started writing only recently and she regrets not having started much […]

Kerri Shying belongs to the Wiradjuri people and is of Chinese / Australian ancestry. A life of slow work with hidden people has given her respect for the small stories the hard places. She has published in the Roland Robinson Awards, and appears in the Women of Words series with Papatuanuku Press, Hunter Writers Centre, […]

Stephen Pham is a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Cabramatta. He is a member of Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement. Stephen’s short stories and essays have appeared in Overland, Meanjin, Griffith Review, SBS Life, and Sydney Review of Books. In 2017, Stephen received the Create NSW Writers’ Fellowship to develop his debut novel, Vietnamatta.

Alana Hicks is a Papua New Guinean-Australian digital content maker living in Sydney. A published poet, she has worked on a variety of projects from short films and documentaries to web sketch comedy and theatre. As a web series producer and writer, she has spearheaded The Kvetch Set Sketch Collective’s three online season, and several […]