Hot Desk Edition #2

Koraly Dimitriadis is the author of the controversial Love and F**k Poems, an Australian poetry bestseller that has been translated into Greek with Australian Council funding, and with rights sold to UK publisher Honest Publishing. She is a freelance opinion writer and has contributed to Daily Life, Rendezview, SBS, Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Saturday Paper, Junkee, New Matilda, ABC's The Drum, Overland and Meanjin.

Her literary work has appeared in Southerly, Blue Dog, [Untitled], Short and Twisted, Social Alternatives, Etchings, Unusual Works, Offset, the Green Fuse and Page 17. Koraly’s writing has also been broadcast on radio and scrolled on a Federation Square wall.

She is currently working on her novel, Divided Island, for which she has received mentorship from Christos Tsiolkas. She's also a  performance poet and actor, and a writer for screen and theatre. Her poetic films The Good Greek Girl Film Project, funded by Australia Council, and her feature, KORALY: I Wonder if They'll Make the TV Show, were screened on Channel 31. In late 2016, Koraly staged her debut theatre show Koraly: 'I Say the Wrong Things All the Time' at La Mama Theatre.

Mia is a poet that currently lives in Brisbane. After completing her Arts degree at UQ (during which she received the 2015 Kingshott Cassidy Poetry Scholarship Award) and opting out of a professional writing Masters program in 2016, Mia has decided pursue her creative endeavours independently while working as a copywriter. As a poet, Mia hopes her work is accessible to all; Mia writes in simple language with a focus on the visual.

Jordi Kerr is a writer, youth literature advocate, and support worker for queer young people. Their thoughts about books have appeared in such places as Archer, Books+Publishing, Kill Your Darlings, and Crikey.

Elizabeth Flux is an award-winning writer and editor whose fiction and nonfiction work has been widely published. She is a judge for the 2019 Award for and Unpublished Manuscript for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and is an editor for Melbourne City of Literature’s ‘Reading Victoria’ project. In 2017 she was the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, was a judge for the Scribe Prize, was the winner of the inaugural Feminartsy Fiction Prize, and her short story ‘One’s Company’ was selected for Best Australian Stories 2017.

Tim McGuire has written for the Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, the Australian, Big Issue, Going Down Swinging and others. In 2017, he is the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship and a judge in the 2017 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers.

In 2015, Tim's work was longlisted for the inaugural Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, and in 2012 his letter to Buffy the Vampire Slayer was published by Penguin Australia in the anthology Sincerely. He is a past editorial committee member of Voiceworks and previous editor for Express Media's Buzzcuts. From Brisbane, he lives in Melbourne.

Christopher Bryant is a Griffin Award nominated playwright (Home Invasion, 2015), performer, and NIDA graduate (Master of Fine Arts (Writing for Performance), 2014). He has worked with a range of companies including 45downstairs, Malthouse Theatre, the State Library of Victoria, ATYP, MKA, Apocalypse Theatre, La Mama and the Emerging Writers' Festival.

Recent work includes The Mutant Man (a 'dark, expressionistic thriller' – British Theatre Guide), which was shortlisted for the 2014 Philip Parsons Fellowship and the 2015 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Playwriting Competition, and his play Intoxication ('talented and thoughtful' – Myron My), which played to sold out audiences in the 2016 Midsumma Festival before touring Australia in 2017. He’s been published by Play Lab, Australian Plays and Hello Mr. magazine, and teaches with Monash University, where he’s studying his Ph.D. under the supervision of Jane Montgomery Griffiths.