Bridget Caldwell is a Jingili Mudburra writer and editor currently based in Narrm/Birraranga. She works as co-editor for Archer Magazine as well as literary journal The Lifted Brow. She was previously managing editor for Blak Brow, a Black Women’s Collective edition of The Lifted Brow.

Gamilaraay, Kooma, Muruwari woman Maurial Spearim is a VCA Graduate (BA Dramatic Arts), a writer, actor, soprano vocalist and multi-disciplinary artist, who draws strength from her connection to Country and People. Her powerful performance style is thought-provoking and captivating and through her artforms she inspires audiences to connect, engage and create change.

Bryan Andy is a Yorta Yorta man from Cummeragunja – an Aboriginal village on the Murray River. Bryan is a freelance writer, radio broadcaster and arts event producer. He is the current Convenor of OutBlack – an LGBTIQ social support and advocacy group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Victoria.

Ryan Prehn is a Worimi poet and writer, currently living on Wurundjeri country. Ryan was runner-up in Overland’s 2016 Nakata Brophy poetry prize, worked with Red Room Poetry & Australian Poetry on the New Shoots project for the 2017 Melbourne Writers Festival, and was recently published in Plumwood Mountain Journal.

Mark is young Yamatji/Noongar man from Meekatharra and Port Hedland in Western Australia he relocated to Melbourne seven years ago to take up an appointment with Crown Resorts and to peruse studies.  Mark has a keen interest in the media, performing arts and theatre and has worked with local Sydney-based Aboriginal radio station (Gadigal) prior…

Monique Grbec is a child of the Stolen Generations, descended from the Wiradjuri people of NSW, she is interested in identity, the generational effects of institutionalisation, and the white Australia policy. Her life work is fundamentally text based and addressed through the lens of Indigenous Standpoint Theory. Her current work, ‘Stepping Stones’ is multimedia installation.

Den is a poet and broadcaster with radio 3KND Kool n Deadly ‘1503AM’. He works with schools and community as a Cultural educator at the Botanic Gardens Melbourne. He hopes that one day all Australians can sit around a big fire and have a laugh, a cry, and move on together as one.

After graduating from WAAPA, Nelson Baker immediately landed a lead role in the ABC’s television comedy-drama series, The Warriors.