Adam Thompson is a pakana writer from Launceston, Tasmania. His work has been published by the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Kill Your Darlings, Good Weekend and Griffith Review – as well as appearing in several anthologies. Adam is the author of Born Into This (UQP) and Stormy Night (Hardie Grant). In 2022, Adam launched the first ever, Tasmanian Aboriginal screen production company, Kutikina Productions, of which he is a co-director.

Mirandi Riwoe is the author of The Burnished Sun, a collection of short stories and novellas. Her novel Stone Sky Gold Mountain won the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction and the ARA Historical Novel Prize and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Her novella The Fish Girl won Seizure’s Viva la Novella and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her next novel, Sunbirds, will be published in September 2023. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).

Laura Elvery is the author of two short story collections, Trick of the Light, and Ordinary Matter, which won the 2021 Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection and was shortlisted for the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award. Her award-winning short fiction has been published in Island, Meanjin, Griffith Review, the Big Issue Fiction Edition, and Overland. Laura has a PhD in creative writing and literary studies from QUT. Her novel, Nightingale, will be published by UQP in 2024. She lives in Brisbane.

Jack Vening is a writer of fiction, comedy and TV who grew up on Ngunnawal Country. He's a regular columnist for The Guardian.

Ben Walter is a Tasmanian author of fiction, essays, poetry and experimental prose, whose writing has recently appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Saturday Paper and Griffith Review. His most recent book is the short story collection What Fear Was.