is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and researcher. She lives on Wurundjeri Country where she is a lecturer at the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, a co-editor of Overland Literary Journal and Chairperson for the Board of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Her debut poetry collection, Dropbear, won the 2022 Stella Prize and the Australian Book Industry Award’s 2022 Small Publisher’s Adult Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the premier’s awards of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Her work has also received the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Melbourne Prize Career Development Award. Her latest collection is The Rot.

is an award-winning journalist, presenter, author and human rights advocate whose surname has now become a verb — Lattoufed: to be sacked or silenced for standing your ground. Her landmark win, Lattouf v ABC, became a flashpoint in debates about free speech, employee rights, institutional cowardice, and what happens when a journalist speaks truth to (media) power. Her latest book, Women Who Win, is an exploration of women who saw the rulebook, chuckled and used it as a coaster. Antoinette’s work spans commercial and public broadcasting, boardrooms, courtrooms, and the occasional Murdoch media pile-on. And no, she’s not done yet.

is a writer and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, Clade and Ghost Species, all of which were shortlisted for or won major literary awards, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and a work of non-fiction, Deep Water, which won the 2025 NSW Literary Award for Non-Fiction and a Gold Medal in the 2025 Nautilus Awards and was shortlisted for the Prime Minster’s Award for Non-Fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-Fiction. In 2012 he won the Pascall Award for Australia’s Critic of the Year. His latest novel, Landfall, is published by Penguin.

is the author of the USA Today bestselling novels, The Woman in the Library and Five Found Dead as well as the multi-award-winning 10-book historical crime series The Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, the Greek myth retelling The Hero Trilogy and the postmodern crime novel After She Wrote Him, which won the 2018 Ned Kelly Award. The Woman in the Library was the inaugural winner of the CrimeFictionLover Award (UK) for Best Novel from an Independent Publisher and nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2023. In 2025 Sulari won the Mary Higgins Clark Award with The Mystery Writer. Five Found Dead was nominated for the 2026 Edgar Awards.

was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Warrane/Sydney. Her fiction has won numerous awards. Her most recent novel is Theory & Practice (2024).

is the internationally bestselling author of 15 books of fiction and non-fiction. Her latest is The Italian Secret. tararaemoss.com

is the author of four novels — Skylarking (2016), The Mother Fault (2020), The Hummingbird Effect (2023) and The Hiding Place (2025). The Hummingbird Effect was longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize and shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA literary Fiction Book of the year. In 2024 she released her first children’s book To Stir with Love illustrated by Jess Racklyeft, shortlisted for the 2025 Indie Book Awards and the 2025 ABIA Children’s Book of the Year and Notable in the CBCA Book Awards for Early Readers. For six years she co-hosted The First Time podcast interviewing hundreds of writers including Tim Winton, Helen Garner, Richard Flanagan, George Saunders & Sarah Winman.

is the author of The Transformations (2025) and Lucky's (2020), both of which were published by Picador. Lucky's won the 2021 Readings Prize and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. He lectures in creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney.