Trent Dalton: Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton is a two-time Walkley Award–winning journalist and the international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Skies, Love Stories, Lola in the Mirror and Gravity Let Me Go. Lola in the Mirror was the winner of the 2024 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the 2023 QBD Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Dymocks 2023 Book of the Year, the 2024 Indie Book Awards, the 2024 Book People Fiction Book of the Year and the 2024 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award. It has sold over 320,000 copies across all formats since publication in October 2023. The Boy Swallows Universe television series, which aired in January 2024, was Netflix’s most successful Australian-made show to date. It ranked in the top 10 in 52 countries and reached the number one spot in Australia, number four in the UK and number six in the US. 

Frances Whiting is one of Australia's best known and respected writers. As national senior feature writer for News Magazines, she has won many journalism awards, including the Clarions Outstanding Contribution to Journalism prize in 2023. Frances has a national column in News Limited weekend magazines, and a weekly column which — at 28 years — is Australia's longest running Sunday column. She has written two best sellers, Walking on Trampolines and The Best Kind of Beautiful, as well as two collections of her much loved columns, Oh To Be a Marching Girl, and That's a Home Run Tiger.