Shey Marque is a poet and former medical scientist. She was the inaugural winner of the QLD Poetry Festival Emerging Poet Award in 2018. Her first full-length poetry collection, Keeper of the Ritual (UWAP 2019), was shortlisted for the Noel Rowe Poetry Award. Her second collection, The Hum Hearers (UWAP 2025), was shortlisted for the…
Glennys Marsdon B. Psych is a multi-award winning author, freelance writer, columnist, reviewer, publisher plus brand/marketing/consumer psychology consultant. Her first short story won the Stirling Literary Awards 2008. Her first book "50 Ways To Grieve Your Lover" was used in international disasters and saw her profiled by US guru Seth Godin, as a someone making…
Jay has spent her career working with people who too often don't have a voice. Her hope is that, now being an award-winning published author, she can help others to bring their stories into the world and, in doing so, change hearts, minds and lives.
Mohammed Massoud Morsi is an Egyptian-Danish-Australian photographer, journalist and writer. His work has been published in all three of his traditional languages. Morsi has a talent for reaching to the heart of existence in a complex world and looks to important questions, finding that which is quintessentially human within much broader struggles. His work is…
Donna Mazza writes fiction and poetry. She is author of "Fauna" (2020, Allen & Unwin) and "The Albanian" (2007, Fremantle Press), a TAG Hungerford Award winner and she teaches at Edith Cowan University in the South West.
Kate McCaffrey is an award winning, internationally published Young Adult author. Kate grew up in Perth’s northern suburbs. She has a degree in English and Art and a diploma in Education.
Mike was born and raised in Kalgoorlie, in the goldfields of Western Australia before moving to Perth to complete a degree in Electronic Engineering. With a good science fiction book in hand and a life-long passion for innovation, Mike has always imagined a future where technologies that are improbable today might be possible tomorrow. When…
Meg McKinlay is a children's writer and poet who has published seventeen books for young people and a collection of poetry for adults
Susan Midalia is the author of three short story collections, all shortlisted for major literary awards, and two literary novels: The Art of Persuasion and Everyday Madness. Her fiction is focuses on the so-called 'domestic' - family, relationships and personal identity - and on the affect of politics in everyday life. Susan also works as…
Amber Moffat is an author and visual artist from New Zealand, currently based in Western Australia. She writes for both children and adults. Amber is an experienced teacher and fierce advocate for arts education. She believes that being able to share stories is the most magnificent thing about being human.