Caroline Parker is a degree-qualified herbalist, author, gardener, award-winning tea blender, and the passionate voice behind The Cottage Herbalist.

Rachel Ang is an artist and writer who makes comics. Their work has been published in international journals such as The New Yorker and kuš!, and Australian periodicals like The Age and Meanjin.

Patrick Lenton is the author of the book of short stories A Man Made Entirely of Bats (2015), the book of comedic essays Uncle Hercules and Other Lies (2019), and the full length short story collection Sexy Tales of Paleontology (2021).

David Carlin is an essayist, memoirist, playwright, theatre director and ceramicist. Of Scottish and English background, he lives in Bulleke-Bek/Brunswick on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

Amaara Raheem is a dancer, researcher, educator and writer. Her work is informed by her lived experience of migration and multiple belongings to place.performance, video, text, audio and radio

Antonia Pont is a writer, yogi and meditator, who has been practising and teaching for close to three decades. Her work asks about how we can become new to ourselves, about the mysteries of time

Cher Tan is an essayist, editor and critic. Her essays, criticism and written work have been published widely. Her critically-acclaimed debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging, was published by NewSouth in May 2024.

Sarah Walker is a Naarm/Melbourne-based writer and artist who makes work about anxiety, intimacy and absurdity.
Her first book, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying, a collection of non-fiction essays about the unruly body in late capitalism, won the 2021 Quentin Bryce Award.

Beth Atkinson-Quinton is a broadcaster, audio producer, writer, and mum based on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Their work spans live radio, narrative audio, journalism, and creative non-fiction, guided by an unwavering fascination with people and place.

Joshua Hortinela is a writer and bookseller who also works in social media marketing. A passionate reader, he has worked in the book industry for nearly ten years.

Rose Michael is a multi-published literary speculative fiction novelist. Her writing has been described as 'genre bending' (Books+Publishing), 'ingenious' (LitLovers) and 'astonishing' (Australian Book Review).   

Rhett Davis, I’m a writer living in Geelong, Australia. I mostly write fiction that sits somewhere between the real and the unreal, usually with an irreverent streak. I have an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in creative writing at Deakin University in Geelong. I

Neha Kale is a widely acclaimed writer whose work spans criticism, journalism and essay. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, SBS, The Sydney Morning Herald, ArtReview, Vogue, the ABC, Griffith Review, among many others.

Natasha Mitchell is a multi-award-winning journalist, radio presenter, podcaster, and documentary maker. She is host of ABC Radio National's flagship Big Ideas program, was founding host and producer of the blockbuster radio show and podcast All in the Mind for a decade,

Sam Voutas is a writer and filmmaker. His feature film Red Light Revolution was included on the British Film Institute’s list of 10 Great Films Set in Beijing.

Jasper Peach lives on stolen Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Castlemaine, Victoria, with their wife and two children. They are a trans, non-binary and disabled writer, editor and broadcaster.

Ryan Davies a 28yr old independent author from the Macedon ranges, is a fresh face to the poetry scene. 
Extending appreciation to the mundane as equal parts significant, Ryan uses his work to encompass human emotion and experience. He describes poetry as “the most beautiful short form storytelling”, and reflects this

Marieke Hardy began life as a child actor and has since forged a successful career as a screenwriter, playwright, producer, artist, theatre maker and media presenter.

Emilie Zoey Baker is an award-winning Australian poet and spoken-word performer who has toured nationally and internationally performing and writing. She was the winner of the Berlin International Literature Festival’s poetry slam 'Slam!Review', as its first Australian guest.

Zoe Knighton is a founding member and Artistic Director of Flinders Quartet, one of Australia’s most respected chamber ensembles. Known for its dynamic performances and deep commitment to Australian music