Snowblin Snowblind

Chris Flynn is the author of The Glass Kingdom and A Tiger in Eden, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Age, the Australian, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Australian Book Review, the Saturday Paper, Smith Journal, the Big Issue, Monster Children and many other publications. He has conducted interviews for the Paris Review and is a regular presenter at literary festivals across Australia. Chris lives on Phillip Island, next to a penguin sanctuary. 

George Dunford has been writing about graphic novels since 1994 when he wrote a history thesis about the censorship of comic books.

He’s since created stories about comics for Australian Bookseller & Publisher, Meanjin and Radio National’s The Book Show. As a Melbourne-based freelance writer he’s written for Lonely Planet, the Big Issue and the Age Good Food Guide*. His novel manuscript was recently longlisted for the CAL/Scribe Prize. Recently he created an iPhone app, Essential Melbourne.

Paddy O’Reilly is a writer from Melbourne. Her work has been published and broadcast widely both here and internationally. Her latest novel, The Fine Colour of Rust, is published in the UK, Australia and the USA.

Paddy’s short-story collection The End of the World garnered much review coverage in Australia and was shortlisted for several awards. Her debut novel, The Factory, was broadcast in 15 episodes as the ABC Radio National Book Reading in 2009.

Paddy has also written screenplays. She has spent several years living in Japan, working as a copywriter and translator.

Meg Mundell’s second novel, The Trespassers (UQP), is out in August 2019. Her first novel, Black Glass (Scribe), was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award, the Norma K. Hemming Award and two Aurealis Awards. Meg's also the editor of We Are Here: Stories of Home, Place & Belonging (Affirm Press, 2019), a collection of writings by people who have experienced homelessness.