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FRANK MOORHOUSE has won a number of literary prizes across his career, including the Australian LIterature Society’s Gold Medal 1989. His novel Dark Palace won the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Age Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel is Cold Light.
RYAN O’NEILL is a short story writer. His latest collection is The Weight of a Human Heart.
A.S. PATRIC is an award-winning author featured in Best Australian Stories 2010 and 2012. His story collection, Las Vegas for Vegans, was shortlisted in the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards for the Steele Rudd Award. He is also the author The Rattler & Other Stories, and the novella, Bruno Kramzer. His debut novel Black Rock White City was published in 2015 to wide critical acclaim.
D.B.C. PIERRE has worked as a designer and cartoonist, and currently lives in Ireland. His first novel, Vernon God Little, won the Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award, the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the Man Booker Prize. His most recent novel is Breakfast with the Borgias.
KIM SCOTT was the first Indigenous author to win the Miles Franklin Award, for Benang. His most recent novel, That Deadman Dance, won the 2011 Miles Franklin Award, the South-East Asia and Pacific Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the ALS Gold Medal, the Victorian Premier’s prizes for Literature and Fiction and the 2010 Western Australian Premier’s Award for Fiction.
TIM WINTON has won the Miles Franklin Award three times, for Shallows, Cloudstreet and Dirt Music. His other awards include the Banjo Prize, the Western Australian Premier’s Prize, the DEO Gloria Award (UK) and the Christina Stead Award. His most recent novel is Eyrie.
CHRIS WOMERSLEY is the author of three novels, The Low Road, Bereft and Cairo. In addition, his short fiction has been published in numerous journals, including Granta, Meanjin, the Griffith Review and Best Australian Stories 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012.