Inverted Perspectives

Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country - winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award and The Victorian Prize for Literature. Her latest collection is Gunflower. She was the 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow and teaches Creative Writing at Massey University.

Catherine Chidgey is “one of New Zealand’s greatest living writers” (Radio NZ), shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and twice longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She is the only writer to have won the Acorn Prize for Fiction twice, New Zealand’s most prestigious literary prize.

Daryl Qilin Yam (b. 1991) is a writer, editor and arts organiser from Singapore. He is the author of the novella Shantih Shantih Shantih (2021), shortlisted for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize, and the novel Lovelier, Lonelier (2021), the Singapore nominee for the 2023 International Dublin Literary Award. 

He co-founded the literary charity Sing Lit Station. Yam’s fourth book, a short story collection titled Be Your Own Bae, is forthcoming from Epigram Books in late 2024. 

Ella Jeffery is a poet, editor and academic. Her debut collection, Dead Bolt, won the Anne Elder Award and the Puncher & Wattmann Prize for a First Poetry Book. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Best Australian Poems, HEAT, Meanjin and many others.