Jake Dennis “PoetOfJazz” is a Burmese-Australian entertainer (singer, actor, poet), educator, and events manager based in Boorloo/Perth whose chapbooks The Exhibition and Gone were published by QPoetry this year. Representing WA Poets Inc as part of Writing WA’s Emerging Writers Program, his debut poetry collection Journeying is currently under consideration with publishers.
Lionel Faull is a freelance editor and award-winning journalist. His work on three continents has uncovered nuclear secrets, exposed white collar criminals and unseated a corrupt President. Lionel's background as an investigative journalist has equipped him with editing superpowers, such as identifying the story buried under mounds of information, organising facts into a compelling narrative,…
Deb Fitzpatrick is the author of ten books. She has received awards in Australia (CBCA, WAYBRA), been published in the US and optioned for film. Deb has a Master of Arts and loves weaving stories from real life into her writing. She regularly teaches creative writing to people of all ages. Deb lived for four…
Alan Fyfe is a Jewish Australian author from Boorloo, the unceded country of the Noongar nation. His poetry and prose fiction has received recognition with a number of awards and listings in Australia and internationally. He is the author of a novel, T (Transit Lounge 2022), and a poetry collection, G-d, Sleep, and Chaos (forthcoming,…
Jess Gately is an editor and writing mentor specialising in science fiction and fantasy literature. She loves storytelling in all its formats—written, verbal and visual—and loves helping others tell their stories. She sits on the boards for Night Parrot Press and Writing WA, teaches editing and publishing at Curtin University, and works with a variety…
Donald specialises in writing corporate histories. During 2023 and 2024 he wrote the history of the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline. This was published in August 2024 to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the pipeline. His client, the Australian Gas Infrastructure Group that owns the pipeline, was delighted with the result. They commented…
Kerry is an award-winning poet and writer based in Perth. Her work explores the reality of women's lives—the parts that are often whitewashed in mainstream media. As a widow and solo parent, Kerry has a particular interest in writing about grief, and what comes after the shock of loss. She is in her final year…
Jill Griffiths studied biology and journalism at Murdoch University and has been writing about the environment and agriculture for over three decades. Her words have appeared in magazines and on websites, in national parks and on brochures. Jill's first book, What's for Dinner?, is a work of narrative non-fiction and was published by Thames and…
Helen Hagemann writes poetry and fiction. Her work is published in Australian literary journals, including Southerly, Westerly, Overland, Cordite & Famous Reporter. Her poetry is published online, internationally in a Chinese publication, Ashbery Mode (Tinfish, Hawaii 2019), and her latest poetry can be found on Phillip Hall’s “Burrow” - an online journal. Two novels have…
John Harman has written for a living all his working life: in advertising, as a journalist in London and New York, and as a film and television scriptwriter. He is also a novelist, having written a number of crime thrillers published by Hodder-Headline, as well as more than thirty non-fiction books. He now works mainly…