The Next Big Thing: Known Unknowns Edition

Jessica Au lives and writes in Melbourne. Her short stories have appeared in Overland, Wet Ink, The Sleepers Almanac and Meanjin Quarterly, where she has also worked as deputy editor. Cargo is her first novel.

Flora Chol Is Melbourne based South Sudanese writer, Poet and activist. Flora migrated to Australia with her mother, brothers and sister in 2003. Flora describes herself as ‘an earthly black woman writing in a stream of literary consciousness’. In May 2019 Flora published her debut a Poetic Anth... Read more

Rhett Davis is from the Wadawurrung country of Geelong and its nearby coastal towns. He has published in places like The Big Issue, Meanjin and The Sleepers Almanac. In 2015 he completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His debut novel, Hovering, was wri... Read more

Lucy Robin is a writer and bookseller living on stolen Boon Wurrung land. She is interested in motorcycles, ghosts, and post-punk rebellion. Their work has appeared in Island, Voiceworks, Archer, swim meet lit mag, and elsewhere. She has performed her work at The Wheeler Centre’s The Next Big Thin... Read more

Natasha Sholl is a Melbourne-based writer and lapsed lawyer. Her writing has appeared in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend magazine, The Guardian, SBS Voices, Kill Your Darlings, Mamamia and elsewhere. She graduated from the University of Melbourne, majoring in Creative Writing. In 2020 s... Read more