SMUT: Queer Erotic Fan Fiction Salon

Nkechi Anele is a Nigerian-Irish Australian who grew up in Naarm (Melbourne) and spent over a decade in the Australian music industry as the lead singer in Saskwatch. In 2015, along with her best friend Lucie Cutting, she started The Pin, a discussion platform about race, identity, and culture throu... Read more

Nathan Borg is an Australian queer actor. He is one of Australia’s known deaf actors with a cochlear implant to appear on our national screens. Nathan has worked on many short films and commercials. The actor landed his first guest role on Neighbours for a year, and is now featuring in an upcoming... Read more

Clem Bastow’s debut nonfiction book Late Bloomer was published in July 2021. Her writing appears regularly in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Big Issue. She co-wrote and co-presented the 2017 ABC podcast Behind The Belt, a documentary “deep di... Read more

Cerulean is the current reigning Miss First Nation 2021. She is an expressive blue gem who descended from the Pisces constellation to bless mere mortals with a raining cloud of excitement, energy and fun! Her body morphs into an ensemble of contrasting forms, exploring performance through concepts. ... Read more

Introducing the daughter of the moon, Evana De Lune. This Lizard Queen was created for the sheer purpose of your viewing pleasure. Inspiring queer panic across Melbourne and the world is one of Evana’s many pastimes. As a classically trained dancer, her fetishes for the finer things in life thrust... Read more

Urvi Majumdar is a comedian, writer, actor and producer. She has performed to sold-out crowds at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Emerging Writer’s festival and Melbourne Writers’ Festival. In 2019 Urvi was selected for the inaugural StandUP! grant, awa... Read more

Tali Polichtuk is a writer and programmer. She is also the founder & editor of Sissy Screens, a digital magazine dedicated to queer screen culture.

Margot Tanjutco is a writer, director, and actor. They directed And She Would Stand Like This with Antipodes Theatre Company for Midsumma 2022 and are currently part of Theatre Works’ two-year writing program, She Writes Collective. Their experimental digital work psyche404error won Best Work In F... Read more

Vyshnavee Wijekumar is freelance writer and culture critic of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage. She has pieces published in The Age, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue, Refinery29 Australia and ABC Everyday. She is also on the board of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival and the fortnightly fi... Read more

Anna Piper Scott is a Perth-born, Melbourne-based stand-up comedian with over 10 years of experience across Australia. She’s a trans woman of remarkable wit and social insight, a skilled writer and bold performer. She’s a guaranteed highlight of every festival she’s a part of, whether hosting ... Read more