Drew Hayden Taylor is an award-winning playwright, author, filmmaker and journalist. Born and living on Curve Lake First Nations (Anishnawbe), he considers himself a contemporary storyteller exploring the boundaries of Indigenous literature.

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.

Laniyuk was born of a French mother and a Larrakia, Kungarrakan and Gurindji father. Her poetry and short memoir often reflects the intersectionality of her cross-cultural and queer identity. She was fortunate enough to contribute to the book Colouring the Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans Perspective and won the Indigenous residency for Canberra’s Noted Writers…

Raelee Lancaster is a Brisbane-based writer and a descendant of the Wiradjuri and Biripi peoples. She is Co-Director of National Young Writers Festival and the 2018 recipient of the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers.