Margaret Hickey
Margaret Hickey is an award-winning author and playwright from North East Victoria. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is deeply interested in rural lives and communities. Margaret’s first crime novel , Cutters End …
Lyn McFarlane
Lyn McFarlane is a Canadian-Australian writer who splits her time between Sydney, and Vancouver Island. She’s a former freelance journalist and holds degrees in economics, journalism and law. Her debut novel The Scarlet Cross won the Canadian …
Luke Patterson
Luke Patterson is a Gamilaroi poet, musician and educator living on Gadigal lands. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications. Luke is currently a Wheeler Center Next Chapter fellow and the Sydney Review of Books …
Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra is an acclaimed author, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. His plays include The Golden Age, Inside the Island, Summer of the Aliens, The Boyce Trilogy, Radiance and Così (the latter two were made into successful films for which he …
Kayte Nunn
Kayte Nunn is a former book and magazine editor, and the author of six previous novels, including the international bestselling The Botanist’s Daughter, The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant, The Silk House and The Last Reunion. The Botanist’s Daughter was the 2020 winner …
Kate McClymont
Over her years in journalism, leading investigative journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, Kate McClymont has exposed corruption and cronyism wherever she has uncovered it, be that in politics, trade unions, sport or horse racing. …
Johann Duflou
Professor Duflou is a senior forensic pathologist practicing from Sydney with extensive expertise in all aspects of forensic medicine and pathology, including injury assessment, mechanisms of injury, and their effects on the human body, both …
James McKenzie Watson
Winner of the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize, James McKenzie Watson writes short and novel-length fiction with a focus on health and rural Australia. Denizen was informed by his upbringing in regional NSW. James co-hosts the health and …
Hayley Scrivenor
Hayley Scrivenor is a former Director of Wollongong Writers Festival. Originally from a small country town, Hayley now lives and writes on Dharawal country and has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of …
Greg Woodland
Greg Woodland is an author, screenwriter and director. Since 2000 he’s worked as a freelance script editor and consultant for film funding bodies and the Australian Writers’ Guild, and is the Director of the script …