October: Brooke Davis, Paul Dalla Rosa, Nic Low and Clare Atkins

Brooke Davis grew up in Bellbrae, Victoria, and attempted to write her first novel when she was ten years old. It was a genre-busting foray into the inner-workings of a teenage girl’s mind, titled Summer Sadness. Fortunately, it remains unfinished, as she quickly realised she didn’t know the first thing about sadness, or being a teenager. Lost and Found is her first proper novel.

Once she left those teenage years behind, she completed an honours degree in writing at the University of Canberra, and, recently, finished her PhD in the same field at Curtin University in Perth.

She loves to sell other people’s books, and is sometimes allowed to do that at two very nice bookshops: one in Perth and one in Torquay.

Paul Dalla Rosa is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. His stories have appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Meanjin and New York Tyrant. In 2019, his story 'Comme' was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award. He is currently undertaking his PhD at RMIT University, studying 'the real' within contemporary fiction. An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is his debut collection.

Clare Atkins has worked as a scriptwriter for many successful television series including All Saints, Home and Away, Winners and Losers and Wonderland. Nona and Me is her first book, which she wrote while living in Arnhem Land.

Nic Low is an author and artist of Ngai Tahu and European descent. Born in Christchurch, he now divides his time between Melbourne and a bush retreat near Castlemaine. Arms Race, published by Text in August 2014, is his debut collection of short stories.

Nic’s fiction, essays and criticism have appeared in The Big Issue, Monthly, Griffith Review, Lifted Brow, Art Monthly and Australian Book Review, and until recently he ran Asialink’s international writing program.

His second book, a literary exploration of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, will be published by Text in 2016.