Frank Moorhouse
has won a number of literary prizes across his career, including the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal in 1989. His most recent 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. He edited
The Best Australian Stories 2004
and
2005
.
Gerald Murnane
's books include
Tamarisk Row
,
A Lifetime on Clouds
,
The Plains, Landscape with Landscape
and, most recently,
Barley Patch
. He has received the Patrick White Award, an Australia Council emeritus award, and the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Giramondo will publish his new collection of short stories in 2011.
Ryan O'Neill
's work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published two short story collections
, Six Tenses
and
A
Famine in Newcastle
. The latter was shortlisted for the 2007 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. He lives in Newcastle, New South Wales with his wife and daughters.
Paddy O'Reilly
is the author of a short-story collection,
The End of the
World
, a novel,
The Factory
, and a novella, âDeep Water.' Her stories have won national and international awards and been widely published and broadcast.
Tim Richards
is the author of two collections of stories,
Duckness
and
Letters to Francesca
, and a novel,
Prince
. He has worked as a television writer, script editor and teacher of creative writing. His new collection of stories
, Thought Crimes
, will be published by Black Inc. in 2011.
Mandy Sayer
has published ten books of fiction and non-fiction. Her awards include the
Australian
/Vogel Award (for
Mood Indigo
), the National Biography Award (
Dreamtime Alice
), the
Age
Non-fiction Book of the Year (
Velocity
) and the Davitt Award for Young Adult Fiction (
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
). She lives in Sydney.
Nicholas Shakespeare
is the prize-winning author of six novels, most recently
Snowleg
. His work has been translated into twenty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Chloe Walker
is a writer and editor. Her fiction has appeared in
The
Sleepers Almanac
,
Verandah
,
Voiceworks
and the American anthology
One Step Beyond
.
Tara June Winch
was born near Sydney in 1983. She is of Wiradjuri, Afghan and English heritage. She has published widely in anthologies and her first novel,
Swallow the Air
, was published in 2006. She has won many awards, including the International Rolex Mentor and Protégé Award, and the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writers.
Tim Winton
is the author of thirteen books, including novels, short stories, non-fiction and books for children. He has won the Miles Franklin Award three times, for
Shallows
in 1984,
Cloudstreet
in 1991 and
Dirt Music
in 2002. His other awards include the Banjo Prize, the Western Australian Premier's Prize, the DEO Gloria Award (UK) and the Christina Stead Award.