Toil and Trouble

Angela "A.G." Slatter is the author of six novels, including The Briar Book of the Dead, All the Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns and the Verity Fassbinder series, as well as eleven short story collections and a graphic novel, Castle Full of Blackbirds, set in Mike Mignola’s Hellboy Universe. Her work’s been translated into multiple languages. She’s won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Shirley Jackson Award, three Australian Shadows Awards and eight Aurealis Awards.

Malcolm Devlin is the author of And Then I Woke Up (2022) and the short story collections, You Will Grow Into Them (2017) and Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land (2021).

Trent Jamieson is the Award-winning author of the novels The Stone Road, and Day Boy, as well as the Death Works Trilogy, and Roil Duology. His children's book The Giant and the Sea, illustrated by Rovina Cai, won the 2021 Environment Award for Children's Literature Picture Fiction. His latest book is Mr Impoppable, illustrated by Brent Wilson. Brent and Trent are currently working on a series of graphic novels together.

Kathleen Jennings is a British Fantasy Award-winning author of Australian Gothic and folk- and fairy-tale-inspired fiction, and a World Fantasy Award-winning illustrator of fantasy and fairy tales, based in Brisbane. Her debut short story collection Kindling, published by Small Beer Press in 2024, follows her 2020 novel Flyaway and poetry collection Travelogues: Vignettes from Trains in Motion. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Queensland, researching methods of creative observation.