2017 Emerging Writers’ Festival Edition

Jamie Marina Lau is a multidisciplinary artist and the author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island. With explorations focusing on language, Jamie’s work meditates on a landscape exploring dis-location of culture and space. Her second novel Gunk Baby will be published in May 2020 with Brow Books. ... Read more

Brodie Lancaster is an author and essayist from Melbourne. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Vogue Australia, the Guardian and New York magazine. Her first book, the pop culture memoir No Way! Okay, Fine, was published by Hachette in 2017. She co-hosts See Also, a w... Read more

Dan Findlay is a historian by training and an editor by trade. Dan has over ten years experience working on Australia’s leading youth magazines. He also has over a decade of freelance experience as a writer and photographer for Rolling Stone, as well as contributing the odd music story to Sydney M... Read more

Sally Abbott is a former journalist and PR consultant who lives in Central Victoria with her partner and dog. She was the inaugural winner of the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers in 2015. Her first novel, Closing Down, will be published in May 2017.