Lex is a commissioning editor for Penguin Random House Australia, a festival director and arts programmer driven by a love of great writing. Her remit is to build a list of new, exciting voices in both fiction and non-fiction and she’s particularly interested in stories about identity. She draws most of her inspiration from engaging […]

Jo is a freelance editor and publishing consultant with the Cameron Creswell Agency. As a literary agent she represents a wide range of authors of literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction and children’s books. www.cameronsmanagement.com.au

Robyn was the first Executive Director of the Queensland Writers Centre (1991–1997) and operates ‘justified text’ writing and publishing consultancy services. She is widely published in magazines, journals and online publishing sites and has edited many anthologies. Robyn has written about children’s literature and the children’s book market and in 2003 she was a member […]

Lucy is Senior Editor for Pantera Press, and has a Master of Publishing degree as well as majors in English and Ancient History. Along with editorial skills, she brings experience in marketing, publicity, design and graphics editing. With Pantera Press since 2014, Lucy aims to foster longstanding relationships with their talented authors and feels privileged […]

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 […]

Drew Rooke is a Sydney-based author and journalist. His work deals primarily with contemporary Australian political and cultural issues, and has appeared in The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, Neighbourhood, and The Sydney Morning Herald. Drew was a finalist in the 2015 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. One Last Spin: the power and peril of the pokies is his first book.

Jarrah Dundler was raised in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. Since completing his arts degree at Griffith University he’s worked as a grant writer, pizza-chef, uni tutor, barista, and a stonemason’s labourer. His debut novel Hey Brother, about the challenges faced by a teenage boy when his brother returns from war, was selected for a Byron Writers […]

Shankari Chandran worked as a lawyer in the social justice field for over a decade. In 2017, she published her first two novels. Song of the Sun God (Perera-Hussein Publishing House) was short-listed for the Fairway National Literary Award (Sri Lanka, 2018). The Barrier (Pan Macmillan Australia) has been short-listed for the Norma K Hemming Award (2018) for […]

Ashleigh Meikle is a student, book blogger, and aspiring writer. More examples of her reviews can be found here.