Myth & Magic

Lev Grossman is the author of The Bright Sword, a bestselling re-imagining of the King Arthur legend, and the #1 bestselling Magicians trilogy, which was published in 30 countries and adapted for TV. The New York Times has called him "a master storyteller." 

Charlie Jane Anders is the award-winning, bestselling author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster. Her other books include All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories.

John Morrissey is a Melbourne writer of Kalkadoon descent. His first collection of stories, Firelight, was published in 2023. Bird Deity is his first novel.

Cameron Sullivan was born in Perth, Western Australia. He grew up with the dark fantasy and horror icons of the 80s and went on to study classics, languages and creative writing at the University of Western Australia. The Red Winter is his first novel.

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 latest book is the Australian suburban-Gothic novel Honeyeater (2025). It follows her short story collection Kindling (2024), and 2020 Australian Gothic novella Flyaway and poetry collection Travelogues: Vignettes from Trains in Motion. She holds an MPhil and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Queensland.