The Next Big Thing: Hot Desk 2023 Edition #3

Caroline Arnoul lives and works on the Mornington Peninsula outside Melbourne on the lands of the Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. She is a graduate of the RMIT Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing and an alum of the Curtis Brown Creative 3-Month Novel Writing Course. She has als... Read more

Sienna Barton is a Naarm-based writer, artist and model. Her writing focuses on issues like body image, relationships and sex, feminism, and familial trauma. She holds a BA in Creative Writing, an Hons in Media Comms and a MFA – all from RMIT. When she’s not spilling her guts for publication... Read more

Anneliz Marie Erese is a Filipino writer whose works have appeared in Going Down Swinging, The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, Island Online and Cordite Poetry Review, among others. She is an alumnus of Express Media’s Toolkits: Fiction program (2017). Her short fiction has been recognised in the Aes... Read more

Jack Nicholls writes science-fiction stories, cultural essays, children’s books and whatever else takes their fancy – all part of their attempt to chronicle the narrowing space in our culture between plausible imagination and implausible reality. Jack’s memoir of growing up transgender at the ... Read more

moirra (xe/xer, they/them) is a Yorta Yorta, Boon Wurrung, Jewish, and queer transsexual self-taught writer, poet, and artist living in Naarm. Xer work has been showcased in multiple art exhibitions, including the Koorie Heritage Trust’s A Rainbow of Tomorrows exhibition and The Shed x ArtKin... Read more

Diem is the Wheeler Centre’s Program Coordinator. She has worked at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Writers Victoria, and the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Gender Studies and a Master of Arts and Cultural Management, both ... Read more