Celebrated Australian fiction & short-story writer
Author of 20 books including Puberty Blues
Actor, comedian, author: got start on community TV
Comedian, TV presenter, musician & children's writer.
Indigenous activist and international visual artist
ARIA & Logie Award winning musician & actor
Australian television and radio presenter, comedian
Showrunner, screenwriter, director for Oz film & TV
Guitarist & songwriter for Powderfinger
Actor, writer and director for TV, film and theatre
ARIA nominated musician and novelist
Writer, author and broadcaster
Award-winning Director, Producer & Writer
Stage, film and TV actor and writer
Award-winning playwright & scriptwriter
Award winning artist, producer & director
Writer, director, actor & YouTube phenomenon
Award winning author, historian & broadcaster
Award-winning Australian screenwriter & producer
Writer & Director Neighbours & All Saints
Writer, broadcaster, musician, writing teacher
Award-winning scriptwriter and script producer
Comedian, actor, & radio presenter
Illustrator, designer, and maker
Drummer and member of Augie March
Executive Director of the Australian Writers Guild
Scriptwriter Eastenders, The Heights & Neighbours
Singer, songrwiter and record producer
Author of Stella Award winning book The Strays
Multi-award winning editor with films screened globally
Actor in multiple films & television series.
Comedian and writer for over 30 years
Dancer & independent choreographer
Producer of Japanese Story & The Dressmaker
Multi-Award winning author of six novels
Literary agent of award winning & emerging writers
Publisher and co-founder of the Stella Prize
Comedian, writer, and radio personality
Award winning TV writer for series including Wolf Creek
Screenwriter Master & Commander & Happy Feet
Illustrator, artist, writer, broadcaster
Musician, dancer, director, educator
Award-winning author of Enemy, journalist and actor
Screenwriter, children’s author and producer
Award-winning performer, screenwriter, comedian,
Choreographer, dancer, film, visual artist
Author and editor of middle-grade fiction
Musician, author of Australian crime fiction
Contemporary artist and sculptor
Singer/songwriter with Raised by Eagles
Comedian who has written for Mad as Hell
Comedian, writer on The Project, RMITV alumni
Joanna is a world-renowned Melbourne-based Australian playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist, & newspaper columnist.
Professor Sarah Holland-Batt is an award winning poet, author, & critic. She writes for a wide range of Australian mastheads
CEO and Editor of Australian Book Review, Peter is a published author with over 30 years experience in publishing.
Dr Ben Eltham is a Media & Communications academic from Monash University and co-author of the recent Creativity in Crisis report.
Darren Middleton is an Australian musician, best known as lead guitarist and songwriter for alternative rock band Powderfinger.
Tony has been a lawyer, radio host, TV presenter, & winner an ABC documentary series Race Around the World. He has written over 20 books.