Hot Desk Edition (July)

Kerrin O’Sullivan is an award-winning writer with a love of short fiction, creative non-fiction and faraway places. Her writings have appeared in various journals including Award Winning Australian Writing, Westerly, Kill Your Darlings, Southerly, The Victorian Writer, The Tishman Review (U.S) and Aesthetica (U.K); and her travel features in The Weekend Australian and The Age.

Didem is a writer, speaker and facilitator, who grew up in the western suburbs of Melbourne. She is a writer of plays, essays and fiction.

Her plays have been developed and produced in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide and presented in Edinburgh, London, New York and Chicago. She has received development grants through the Australian Arts Council, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Copywright Agency, Melbourne City Council and Western Chances Scholarship Program. Her plays Vile, Isolation, Work in Progress and the University of Longing have all been funded through Melbourne funding bodies. Vile was shortlisted for a number of Australian theatre awards and in 2016 was shortlisted for the Theatre 503 New Play award in London.

Her essays and fiction have been published through Currency House Press, australianplays.org, Meanjin, Yen magazine, Express Media, Artshub and the Age. Her work draws on her mixed cultural heritage and she fuses personal stories of the working class and home, to bring light to the many facets of being Australian.

She has worked as a facilitator and creator with the emerging writers festival, dandenong city council, Victorian drama league, Tuggeranong arts centre, outer urban projects and writers victoria. Didem received a Graduate Diploma in Dramatic Art from Victoria University when she was 16 through recognition for prior learning, and is also a graduate of RMIT, NIDA and the VCA.

Bec Fary meditates on sleep, circadian rhythms and the subconscious through their audio project SleepTalker, which originated as an independent podcast and is now a late-night experimental live broadcast on Triple R.

Bec’s production credits include award-winning podcasts, local and international radio shows, museum installations, events and audio tours, and their evolving research and creative practice concerns DIY production, documentary, digital platforms and the intersections between time, place, mental health and listening.

Bec is a freelance podcast producer and has contributed to The Messenger, Better Off Dead, Behind the Wire and the Dumbo Feather podcast, as well as Supercast, Field Work, A World of Her Own, Fauna and more. Bec has taught radio and podcasting skills at SYN Media, where she was also a production manager and supervising producer for the national community radio program All the Best. In 2016, Bec was a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.

Chris Somerville is the author of the short story collection We Are Not The Same Anymore. He is a former Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and his work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Paper Radio, Griffith Review and the Lifted Brow.

Angelina is an advocate for adult survivors of childhood trauma and her fiction observes the challenging journeys involved in the experience of post-traumatic growth. Her work has been published in journals and magazines such as Meanjin, Mascara Literary Review and Page Seventeen. She is a recipient of the Eleanor Dark Varuna Writing Fellowship and Rosebank Residency. Her three-hour book was shortlisted for the 2009 Lord Mayor Creative Writing Awards. She regularly blogs on her website, Writing Through Trauma.

Christine Sun is a Melbourne-based bilingual writer, translator, reader and independent scholar. She has won literary awards in Taiwan (where she was born and raised), worked as a journalist in the United States, and explored both traditional and independent publishing routes in Australia.

Since June 2012, via her website eBook Dynasty, she has been helping emerging and established authors in both Chinese and English to translate, publish and promote their writings as Chinese digital and print books in the Chinese-speaking world.