Tonile Wortley lives in Sydney with more books than she’ll ever have time to read. She blogs at My Cup & Chaucer and by day works at Hachette.

Robert Fairhead is an editor and writer at TallAndTrue.com and blogs on RobertFairhead.com. Follow him on Twitter at @tallandtrue.

Dr George Catsi is an award-winning writer plus a performer, comic and academic. He was 2010 winner of the Kit Denton Fellowship for courage and excellence in performance writing, for his satirical evangelical comedy, I Want to Be Slim. He has performed his comedic memoir show (an 80 min monologue), Am I Who I Say I […]

Anthony Macris is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney. His best-selling memoir, When Horse Became Saw: a family’s journey through autism, was shortlisted for the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. His most recent book is Aftershocks: Selected Writings and interviews (UWAP 2019).

Dr Lee Kofman is a Russian-born, Israeli-Australian author of three fiction books and two memoirs, including Imperfect (Affirm Press, 2019), which was shortlisted for Nib Literary Award, and The Dangerous Bride (Melbourne University Press, 2014), co-editor of Rebellious Daughters (Ventura Press, 2016) and editor of Split (Ventura Press, 2019), which was longlisted for ABIA Awards […]

Patrick Lenton is a writer and author and digital marketing professional. He runs Town Crier Consultancy, which provides social media and marketing services for authors. He is also the staff writer at Junkee. He tweets @patricklenton.

Dr Tom Doig is a journalist, oral historian, travel writer and academic. He is the author of Mörön to Mörön: two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure (Allen & Unwin, 2013) and The Coal Face (Penguin, 2015), about the catastrophic 2014 Hazelwood mine fire. The Coal Face was joint winner of the 2015 Oral History […]

Patti Miller is the author of ten books, including Australia’s best-selling life writing texts, Writing Your Life,  The Memoir Book  and Writing True Stories  (A&U) as well as a novel Child (A&U) and six memoir/narrative non-fiction books, The Last One Who Remembers (A&U) Whatever The Gods Do (Random House), the critically acclaimed The Mind of […]

Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist. Career highlights include attaining a PhD in science fiction and climate fiction, five years as fiction editor of Cosmos Magazine, running Agog! Press, studying with Margaret Atwood, 75 published short stories, a collection and a far future novel, Lotus Blue. She’s a regular panellist and […]