Renee Mihulka is an avid reader, an aspiring author with three manuscripts on submission, and a mum of three. You can find out more about her at www.reneemihulka.com.

Joel Naoum is a Sydney-based book publisher, bookseller, editor and consultant. He is currently the non-fiction category manager at Booktopia and runs Critical Mass, a publishing consultancy. Joel previously ran Pan Macmillan Australia’s digital-first imprint Momentum Books. He is the chair of the board of Writing NSW and in 2011 he completed the Unwin Trust […]

Lucie Towers is a writer and illustrator from Sydney, NSW. A graduate of Communications: Media Arts & Production and International Studies in Japanese (UTS), Lucie has a passion for storytelling, animation, terrible monster movies, puns, fairytales and all kinds of absurdly whimsical, twisty-turvey word nerdy tomfoolery. Her Dungeons & Dragons character is a gentle bugbear […]

Tegan Bennett Daylight taught writing at the University of Technology Sydney for more than 15 years, and runs writing workshops and mentoring programs at all levels. She is experienced with large and small groups, as well as one-on-one engagement with writers and their writing. Her recent collection of short stories, Six Bedrooms, was shortlisted for […]

Linda Funnell has extensive experience as an editor and publisher and has taught courses in publishing, editing and writing for UTS, the ASA and Writing NSW. She has also been a mentor for the Residential Editorial Program, a mid-career development program for editors run by the Australian Publishers Association. For 10 years Linda was a publisher […]

Alice Pung is a writer, editor, teacher and lawyer based in Melbourne. Born a month after her Chinese parents fled from Cambodia to Australia as asylum seekers from Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge Regime, Alice has used her shared family’s experiences to write memoir and fiction. In 2007 she won Newcomer of the Year in the […]

Phil Spencer has worked professionally as a writer, performer, director and creative producer. He was the recipient of the Peggy Ramsey Foundation Award for Writers and has been shortlisted for the Philip Parsons Playwright Award not once, not twice, but thrice (he still hasn’t won it – he’s pretty sure it’s rigged). Phil was the […]

C.S. Pacat is the best-selling author of the Captive Prince trilogy and the comic series, Fence. Her first novel began its life as an original web serial, which attracted viral attention before being acquired by Penguin USA. The Captive Prince trilogy went on to become a USA Today bestseller after being published worldwide to commercial […]

Barbara Brooks has published short memoir, essays and fiction, and an acclaimed biography, Eleanor Dark: A writer’s life. Her essays and stories have been published in Europe, Asia and the US as well as Australia. She is a highly regarded teacher of writing and has taught at a number of universities, including teaching non-fiction writing […]