Inverted Perspectives

Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country (Scribe 2020) — winner of the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award, The Victorian Prize for Literature, the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year and co-winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2021. Laura is also the author of Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc., 2013). Her latest collection is Gunflower (Scribe 2023).

Ceridwen Dovey writes fiction (Only the Animals; Mothertongues; Blood Kin; In the Garden of the Fugitives; Life After Truth) and creative non-fiction (On J.M. Coetzee: Writers on Writers; Inner Worlds Outer Spaces) and has won an Australian Museum Eureka Award & two UNSW Press Bragg Prizes for long-form science writing. Ceridwen is co-creator of The Archival Futures of Outer Space Film Quartet about ethics and emotions in outer space. Her latest book of stories, Only the Astronauts, continues her experiments with literary voice and form. 

Catherine Chidgey is “one of New Zealand’s greatest living writers” (Radio NZ). Remote Sympathy was shortlisted for the DUBLIN Literary Award and longlisted for the Women’s Prize in 2022. In 2023, The Axeman’s Carnival won the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, 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 critic. Her debut collection of poems, Dead Bolt, won the Puncher & Wattmann Prize for a First Book of Poems and the Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the Dame Mary Gilmore Award. Her poetry has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, and she is the recipient of a Queensland Writers Fellowship, the Mick Dark Fellowship for Environmental Writing and the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Griffith University.