Simon Howe is an illustrator and author with a broad appetite for children's literature, animation, storytelling and design.

Trace Balla lives on Djaara Country, South Eastern Australia. She creates graphic novels and children’s books about connecting with Country and community. A self-described ‘story catcher,’ she finds inspiration in nature and incorporates local plant and animal species into her detailed, cartoon-style drawings.

Richard Piper has spent forty-four years of his career on stage. Trained in London, he was soon performing on the West End in Grease and Elvis, and came to Australia in 1987 with cult cabaret band The Bouncing Czecks.

Eloise Grills is an award-winning artist and writer living on unceded Wada Wurrung land. Her illustrated memoir-in-essays, big beautiful female theory was published by Affirm Press in 2022. The book was shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize. She is currently working on her first novel.

Mike Greaney is a cartoonist, animator and writer, whose work focuses on using humour and pathos to explore themes of human connection and cosmic disappointment and to reframe tropes of Australian culture.

Sophie Cunningham is a non-fiction writer, novelist and teacher of creative writing.She has a passion for trees and broader environmental issues.

Robbie Melville is an award-winning Australian composer and guitarist whose work spans jazz, contemporary classical, folk and improvised music.

Andy Jackson is a poet and essayist. His 2021 collection Human Looking won the ALS Gold Medal and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry.

Ilka Tampke is an award-winning author, academic and teacher. She teaches creative writing at RMIT University, La Trobe University and the Faber Academy, and has recently completed a PhD in plant poetics at La Trobe University.