Sneha Lees (Ruhi Lee) writes on Boon Wurrung land. Her articles, poetry and book reviews have been featured in The Guardian, ABC Life, SBS Voices, South Asian Today and The Big Issue among other publications. She is an alumna of HARDCOPY 2019.

Mark Brandi's bestselling novel, Wimmera, won the coveted British Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger, and was named Best Debut at the 2018 Australian Indie Book Awards.

Bronwyn Birdsall is a writer living on Bundjalung Country, in Northern New South Wales. Her first novel Time and Tide in Sarajevo was published in July 2022 by Affirm Press, and has been shortlisted for the 2023 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Her writing centres around contemporary life and finding meaning in the everyday.