Karina Kilmore is a writer and newspaper journalist with more than 30 years’ experience. Under the byline Karina Barrymore, she covered almost every major business scandal and financial event since the 1987 global share market crash and has written for US, UK, Australian and New Zealand publications. Author Website Stand AloneWhere the Truth Lies (2020) …
Katherine Kovacic originally worked as a veterinarian before returning to study to earn an MA, followed by a PhD in Art History. She has an interest in the history of human relationships with animals, particularly as they appear in art. She lives in Melbourne with a Borzoi and a Scottish Deerhound. Author Website Alex Clayton …
Katherine Firkin is a Melbourne journalist, currently with CBS New York. She has over a decade of experience and has worked across every medium – print, online, television and radio. She began her career at the Herald Sun newspaper as a sports reporter before moving on to breaking news and has worked for Seven West …
Natalie was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. She has a doctorate in crime fiction. her short stories have won several awards in the annual Scarlet Stiletto competition, run by Sisters in Crime Australia. She currently lives in Sydney. Author Website Schalk Lourens series Schalk Lourens is a policeman in post-apartheid South …
Kyle Perry is a counsellor who has worked extensively in high schools, youth shelters and drug rehabs. In his work he encounters stories and journeys that would fill a hundred books. He is originally from Tasmania and has been lost in the Tasmanian mountains twice. All this was good fodder for his debut novel, The …
Pip Drysdale is a writer, musician and actor who grew up in Africa and Australia. At 20 she moved to New York to study acting, worked in indie films and off-off Broadway theatre, started writing songs and made four records. After graduating with a BA in English, Pip moved to London and played shows across …
Leah Swann is an award-winning fiction author, journalist and speechwriter. Her critically acclaimed collection of stories, Bearings, was published by Affirm Press in 2011. She has also written a fantasy series (Irina: The Trilogy) for middle grade readers Author Website Stand AloneSheerwater (2020)
Jock Serong was formerly a lawyer, he is now a features writer, and was the editor of Great Ocean Quarterly. His novels have received the Ned Kelly Award for First Fiction, the Colin Roderick Award and the inaugural Staunch Prize (UK). He is married with four children and lives in Port Fairy, Victoria. Stand AloneQuota …
Alexander Thorpe is from Fremantle, Western Australia. He has written for news outlets, travel journals, marketing companies and educational providers. He has also worked as an English teacher for international students. Mendicant Monk series A nameless friar appears to help the police solve mysteries in the 1920s Death Leaves the Station (2020)Death Holds the Key (2024)
Chris Hammer has been a journalist for over twenty-five years. He has been an international correspondent for SBS TV’s flagship current affairs program Dateline, the chief political correspondent for The Bulletin and a senior political journalist for The Age. He has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Charles Sturt University and a master’s degree in …