Tim Byrne is a critic, arts journalist and bookseller at Avenue Bookstore. He has been Performing Arts Editor at Time Out Melbourne, as well as... Read More

Anna Kate Blair is a writer from Aotearoa living in Naarm. Her essays and short stories have appeared in publications including Cordite, Slow Canoe, The... Read More

Chris Womersley is the bestselling author of five novels: The Low Road, Bereft, Cairo, City of Crows and The Diplomat and the short story collection... Read More

André Dao is a Melbourne-based writer, editor and artist. His debut novel, Anam, won the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. His writing... Read More

Commodore Peter Scott joined the Royal Australian Navy as a seventeen-year-old and rose over three decades to be the professional head of the Navy’s elite... Read More

Diego Ramírez is an artist with dreams, a writer with hopes and a facilitator with beliefs. He has shown locally at ACMI in partnership with... Read More

Declan Fry has written for the Guardian, Meanjin, Overland, Westerly and elsewhere. His poetry has been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and selected... Read More

Katherine Kovacic is the award-winning author of many short stories and books, including the Alex Clayton art mysteries and the TV-to-page adaptation of Ms Fisher’s... Read More

Michelle Cahill is the author of fiction, essays and three collections of poetry, including Vishvarupa, which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and Letter to... Read More

Fi Wright is a broadcaster and educator who has focused her critical work in audio and radio. Fi has been broadcasting for over 15 years... Read More