Bodies of Work [Booked Out]

Alice Boyle is a teacher and writer living in Naarm/Melbourne. She has written for SBS Voices, the Stella Prize and the Wheeler Centre, and her short story ‘The Exchange’ was published in the Black Inc. anthology Growing Up Queer in Australia. In 2021 she won the Text Prize for her debut novel, Dancing Barefoot, which will be published in September 2022 with Text Publishing.

Eloise Grills is a writer and visual artist living on Dja Dja Wurrung land. Her collection of illustrated nonfiction, big beautiful female theory, was shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize and the Indie Book Award for Illustrated Nonfiction.

Ryan Gustafsson is a writer and researcher living and working on Wurundjeri land. Their writing has appeared in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Australian Feminist Law Journal, Peril Magazine, Island Magazine, and Bent Street, among others.

Chloe Komesarook is an emerging writer originally from Washington DC, USA, who moved to Melbourne to study Creative Writing at RMIT. Her work has been published in the Bowen Street Press Review, The Adelaide Literary Magazine, and recently, Voiceworks. Titled 'A Summary of Parts', it is a receipt of body parts, a small critique, and exploration of Marxist theory and literature, balanced against sustainability and alcoholism. She is currently developing her nonfiction portfolio which should be completed by the end of the year. She is a die-hard flash fiction and memoir fan but also hopes to create a longer-form fiction work over the next year. Many of her pieces tend to come from domestic spaces, whether a lampshade with a weird memory attached to it or a death in the family that flashes from the floorboards.  

Lucianne Tonti has worked in fashion in Melbourne, Sydney, London and Paris. In 2020 she launched the sustainable fashion site Prelude, as profiled in Vogue. Her writing appears in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and Lindsay.

Jamila is the Wheeler Centre's Programming Manager. Prior to this, she worked in the publishing industry as a publicist and sales manager, working with local and international writers. Jamila holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Postgraduate Certificate in Publishing and Communications, both from the University of Melbourne.