Narrelle Harris was born in Newcastle, Australia and proceeded to move every few years until most of her friends thought she was on a Witness Protection program. Her itinerancy included three years abroad, teaching English in Egypt and Poland. Although now settled in Melbourne with her husband and her cat, she continues to relieve itchy [...]
Ann Somerville grew up in one of Australia’s prettiest small cities. In 1989, she left Australia with a BA majoring in English, French and History, and a burning ambition to see more of the world and its people, and to discover this ‘culture’ thing people kept telling her about. In 2006, she returned home to [...]
Kat Mayo runs Book Thingo, a blog focused on reading (mostly) romance books down under.
Who taught you to read and how old were you?
My family is big on literacy, and my mum read stories to me at every
chance. You know those vignettes of childhood you remember, when you were too young to form memories [...]
Charlotte Wood is the editor of Brothers & Sisters, a collection of short stories and non-fiction about siblings by 12 of Australia’s finest writers. She is also the author of novels The Children, The Submerged Cathedral and Pieces of a Girl. Her books have been short listed for several prizes including the Australian Book Industry [...]
David Sornig is the author of Spiel (UWAP) a novel that traverses an apocalyptically charged journey through Melbourne and Berlin. He is writing a follow-up about a family at the coalface of climate change.
Originally from Melbourne, where he taught creative writing and literature at Deakin and Victoria Universities, he now lectures at Flinders University in [...]
