Dr SALLY BREEN has been writing and publishing creative non-fiction and stories since the early-nineties. Her work has appeared widely in national and international journals and anthologies, with features in Asia Literary Review, Meanjin, Open Road Review, The Age, Best Australian Stories, Review of Australian Fiction, The Guardian London, Veranda, Overland, The Australian, Hemingway Shorts and Griffith Review. She is a regular contributor to The Conversation. In 2009 Sally won the Varuna Harper Collins manuscript prize for her memoir The Casuals. She went on to sign a two book deal with Harper Collins which saw the release of The Casuals in 2011 and her debut novel Atomic City in 2013 – shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards Book of the Year People’s Choice in 2014.

Sally has a wide ranging interest in the arts and has been actively involved in various ventures and initiatives. While studying in the nineties Sally set up The Arc, a multi-arts venue on the Gold Coast. In Brisbane, in the early new millennium, Sally founded Burn Writers Collective. Burn ran Writing The Fringe Festival, a bad sister event to the Brisbane Writers Festival. Sally now actively supports and mentors young writers via Smallroom Writers Collective on the Gold Coast. She is a board member of the Regional Arts Development Fund for the Gold Coast City Council and director of Books for Bali. Sally is Executive Director of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing at Griffith University, and is a 2019 Griffith Review Writing Fellow. She is currently working on various book projects including a new novel and a collection of creative non-fiction. Sally lives on the Gold Coast.

www.sallybreen.com.au

CHRIS FLYNN is an author, columnist and critic. His earlier novels were The Glass Kingdom and A Tiger in Eden, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize. He curated a suite of Aboriginal Australian stories for McSweeney’s, and has conducted interviews for The Paris Review. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Age, The Australian, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Australian Book Review, The Saturday Paper, Smith Journal, The Big Issue, Monster Children and many other publications. He is a regular presenter at literary festivals across Australia. The Daily Telegraph once described him as the lovechild of Irvine Welsh and Elizabeth Gilbert. Chris lives next to a penguin sanctuary on Phillip Island.

Find him at chriseflynn.com, or on Instagram @flythefalcon

BRENTLEY FRAZER is an Australian author whose poems, prose and academic papers have been published in numerous national and international anthologies, journals, magazines and other periodicals since 1992. He holds a MA (writing) from James Cook University and a PhD (experimental creative non-fiction) from Griffith University. He is also a lecturer at Griffith University and the editor-in-chief of Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters. His first book, a novelised memoir, Scoundrel Days (UQP, 2017) was described as "a gritty, Gen-X memoir, recounting wild escapades into an under-culture of drugs and violence and sex” (ABC Radio National). The Australian newspaper compared Frazer's ability to shock, surprise and unsettle with that of Marcel Duchamp, concluding: "This is dirty realism at its dirtiest”. He lives in Brisbane.

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DARIUS RONAYNE-MAHONY. Childhood by Mosman, adulthood by Redfern. Darius works in the bowels of a large multinational, and moonlights as a Muay Thai and boxing instructor. He’s suited up in a variety of skins—cook, basketball coach, underground techno purveyor, internet radio jock, online gamer, traveller, word peddler—and is a hopeless addict to great storytelling, across all platforms: books, gaming, cinema, sport, television, whatever. Darius is currently working on a noir novel set in France and taking off to Thailand when he should be writing the second instalment in the Law of Chaos trilogy. He lives in Newtown, Sydney

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