Hayley Scrivenor’s debut novel, Dirt Town (2021), won a slew of national and international awards, including an ABIA for General Fiction Book of the Year, a Lambda Literary Award and a Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong, where her research centred on unusual […]

Nick Bhasin is a writer and editor based in Sydney, but originally from the US. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, Junkee and McSweeney’s and he appeared on ABC Melbourne radio as a cultural attaché. He won the US music game show Name That Tune and his satirical parenting blog […]

Zaheda Ghani and her family arrived in Australia from Afghanistan as refugees in the 1980s. At nine years old Zaheda, also known as Zoe, hand-wrote her first novel using a HB pencil, in a scented diary with a lock and key. The heart of what she wrote back then developed over many years to become […]