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David Whish-Wilson @davidwhish-wilson.bsky.social Fremantle-based crime writer and reader, reviewer, academic. Author of the Frank Swann and Lee Southern series. Latest is Cutler, out with Fremantle Press.
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Tina Cartwright (she/her) @humsentence.bsky.social Writer. Wurundjeri country. Novelist thinking about poetry.
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Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social Writer of weird fiction. Querying away. Dank Goblin. NUJ member. That's definitely me in the profile photo. Blocks AI on sight.
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Nicole Hayes @nicolehayes.bsky.social PhD. YA author (Penguin Random) jnr fiction (Hardie Grant) non-fiction (Black Inc / The Guardian). Podcaster with The Outer Sanctum / The Writers' Retreat. Living on Wurundjeri land with 2 humans & 1 dog. She/her. https://linktr.ee/nicolehayes
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Mike Smith @mikesmithqld.bsky.social Ethical Consulting (governance, government relations, training); b4 that Chief of Staff; b4 that Labor Party NT Secretary; b4 that union official. Meanjin, Queensland, Australia.
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Lisa Kenway @lisakenway.bsky.social Australian anaesthetist and thriller writer living on Darkinjung country. Debut psychological thriller ALL YOU TOOK FROM ME shortlisted for 2025 Ned Kelly Awards & 2025 Danger Awards. she/her
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Carl Rhodes @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social Professor of Business and Society at UTS Business School, Sydney, Australia. Writes on business and democracy, economic injustice and dissensus politics. Ops mine!
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Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Lisa Unger @lisaunger.bsky.social NYT bestselling author. Co-president of ITW.
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Stephen Jeffery @stephenej.bsky.social Australian-Canadian. Producer at The Australian Financial Review. Formerly of The Hill Times and The Canberra Times. He/him
Beth Spencer @bethspen.bsky.social Writer. Latest book - The Age of Fibs: fiction, memoir, microlit - Green lefty - she/her/dr. Living on Darkinjung land. https://linktr.ee/bethspen / substack at https://bethspen.substack.com
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