Carolyn Swindell is a writer, producer and comedian from Sydney. Following a career that’s spanned two decades in corporate, politics and professional sport, she turned her attention to writing after the birth of her second child. Her short story ‘Brief Encounter’ was published in Lonely Planet’s The Kindness of Strangers and has been turned into …
Christine Keighery (who also writes as Chrissie Perry) is the author of more than 35 novels for children and Young Adults. Chrissie wrote 13 books in the hugely successful Go Girl! Series. Her YA title, Whisper, won a White Raven and IBBY award and was shortlisted for the CBCA and the WA Premier’s Awards. Her …
Suzie Miller is a contemporary international playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Based in both London, UK, and Sydney, Australia, Miller’s work has been produced around the world winning multiple prestigious awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play 2023, for her smash hit one-woman play Prima Facie, which had a soldout season on London’s …
Matt Francis is an Australian based academic with a love of Vanuatu and the Pacific. He has spent the last two decades researching and writing about this part of the world. Matt Francis began his career working for an international aid agency and has undertaken development-based work across Asia and the Pacific. Murder In the …
Troy Hunter is an adult and YA fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in a variety of publications and journals. He lives in Melbourne and works as a marketing and communications consultant. Author WebsiteTroy’s Socials Stand AloneGus and the Missing Boy (2024) Critical AcclaimGus and the Missing Boy:Shortlisted 2024 Ned Kelly Award for Best …
Robert Edeson was born in Perth, Western Australia, and educated at Christ Church Grammar School, the University of Western Australia and the University of Cambridge. He has been a consultant anaesthetist and researcher, publishing in the neuroscience, biophysical and mathematical literatures. He lives in Perth. Richard Worse seriesWorse is a brilliant intelligence analyst called in …
Lisa Kenway is an Australian writer and anaesthetist. Her short fiction and creative non-fiction pieces have appeared in journals and anthologies including Island Online, the Meanjin blog, the 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, Meniscus Literary Journal, Brilliant Flash Fiction and X-RAY Literary Journal, and her poetry was published in Grieve Volume 10 (Hunter Writers’ Centre, 2022). She lives on the Central Coast of NSW …
Lauren Keegan is a psychologist, writer and mother who lives in the Wollondilly Shire; the land of the Dharawal and Gundungurra people. She has worked in public mental health for twelve years, has two young girls and drinks more tea than is sensible. Author Website Stand AloneAll the Bees In the Hollows (2024)
Neil A White was born in Melbourne and educated in his native Australia and the United States. He is the author of the novels Closure, Turn A Blind Eye, Something for Bebe, and a number of award-winning short stories. He and his wife live in Dallas, TX. Stand AloneClosure (2016)Turn A Blind Eye (2019)Something For …
Mark Mupotsa-Russell is a writer living on Wurundjeri Country in the Yarra Ranges. His debut novel, The Hitwoman’s Guide to Reducing Household Debt, won the 2023 Affirm Press Mentorship Award. Before writing novels he was a screenwriter, film reviewer, cocktail columnist, PR consultant and communications adviser in the suicide prevention sector. Author Website Stand AloneThe …