Walter Mason is the author of Destination Saigon and Destination Cambodia. An active member of several literary societies, he is a past president of the NSW Dickens Society. Walter is also a popular teacher of writing, mindfulness and creativity. As well as leading tours to Vietnam, Walter teaches Buddhist, Vietnamese and Cambodian history. He is […]

Bianca Whiteley started her career in publishing at Murdoch Books in 1999, and spent seven years in various roles including Inventory Management. She joined Nielsen Book in 2006 where her latest role is Account Director. For the past 12 years she has helped publishers and retailers make the most of the data and is currently […]

Charlotte Wood is the author of five novels and two books of non-fiction. The Natural Way of Things won the 2016 Stella Prize and Indie Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction.

Steven Amsterdam is the author of Things We Didn’t See Coming (Winner, The Age Book of the Year), What the Family Needed (shortlist, Encore Prize; longlist, IMPAC International Literary Award), and most recently, The Easy Way Out (shortlist, ALS Gold Medal, Prime Minister’s Literary Award; longlist, Miles Franklin Literary Award). His short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The Age, Five Chapters, The Guardian, Heat, The […]

Tamar Chnorhokian is Associate Director of SWEATSHOP: Western Sydney Literacy Movement. She completed a communications degree in writing and publishing at the Western Sydney University in 2004. Her debut novel is The Diet Starts On Monday (SWEATSHOP 2014) and she has also worked as a columnist, journalist and freelance writer. She is the recipient of the 2016 Copyright […]

Cate Kennedy has taught extensively in story structure and craft and has conducted many workshops exploring the elements that make up good fiction, with students at all levels of practice. She currently has a collection of short stories on the Victorian Year 12 syllabus and is a member of the faculty of Pacific University’s low […]

Zoya Patel is the award-winning author of No Country Woman (Hachette, 2018), a memoir of race, religion and feminism, as well as the novel Once A Stranger (Hachette, 2023). She was formerly the editor of Lip Magazine, co-host of the Margin Notes podcast, and founder of the digital literary journal Feminartsy, which published and mentored emerging writers […]

Anna Westbrook is a Sydney-based writer. Her debut, Dark Fires Shall Burn (Scribe; 2016), is a literary crime novel exploring the impact of the real-life unsolved murder of a young girl in Newtown in 1946. She is a lecturer in literature and creative writing at New York University in Sydney, and holds a PhD from the University of […]

Ellen O’Brien is a writer, poet and law graduate with Guringai ancestry, living and working on Gadigal and Wangal land. She is interested in discussions about the meaning of home, community, and the healing power of love.