Temptations

Charlotte Wood is the author of ten books — seven novels and three non-fiction works. She has won the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award, among others, and her features and essays have appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly, Saturday Paper and others. She lives in Sydney.

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. 

Joel Deane is a novelist, poet, journalist and speechwriter. A freelance writer, he previously worked in newspapers, television, politics and internet startups in Australia and the US. Deane has published seven books, including Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power and Year of the Wasp. His most recent work, the novel Judas Boys, has been compared to Lord of the Flies.

Anna McGahan is the author of ‘Immaculate’ (Allen and Unwin) which received the 2023 Australian/Vogel’s Award and was shortlisted for the 2024 MUD Prize for Best Debut Novel. Anna is the author of Metanoia and the collection of poetry, Skin. She is an actor, playwright and screenwriter, and has written essays for The Griffith Review, The Guardian and other publications. Anna lives in Meanjin (Brisbane), with her two daughters.

Sita Walker is an English and Literature teacher in Brisbane. Her first piece, Love in the Time of Grandmother, was shortlisted in the SBS Emerging Writers Competition and was published by Hardie Grant in the anthology, Roots: Home is Who We Are. Before that, she dabbled in blogging and wrote short letters to her students. Her debut memoir, The God of No Good, was released in 2023 and received the Courier Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award.