Zoya Patel is the award-winning author of No Country Woman, a memoir of race, religion and feminism. She is also the founder of feminist literary organisation, Feminartsy and co-host of the Margin Notes podcast alongside Yen Eriksen. Zoya has won numerous awards for her writing and editing, and has been published widely, including in The Guardian, The Australian Financial Review, ABC, SBS, Junkee, Overland, Meanjin, The Sydney Morning Herald and more. She was a 2020 judge for the Stella Prize, and is the inaugural ACT Stella Schools Ambassador.
Jane Harrison is descended from the Muruwari people and is an award-winning playwright and author. Her play Stolen played across Australia and internationally for seven years. Rainbow’s End has had numerous productions and won the 2012 Drover Award. The Visitors premiered at Sydney Festival in 2020. Her novel Becoming Kirrali Lewis won the 2014 Black & Write! Prize, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minster’s Literary Awards and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Jane directed the Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival in 2016 and 2019.
Jane Harrison is descended from the Muruwari people and is an award-winning playwright and author. Her play Stolen played across Australia and internationally for seven years. Rainbow’s End has had numerous productions and won the 2012 Drover Award. The Visitors premiered at Sydney Festival in 2020. Her novel Becoming Kirrali Lewis won the 2014 Black & Write! Prize, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minster’s Literary Awards and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Jane directed the Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival in 2016 and 2019.
Ian See is the former books editor at The Saturday Paper. Previously Ian worked as an editor at Scribe Publications and the University of Queensland Press, where he worked on award-winning fiction, nonfiction and poetry titles. He has also been a bookseller at Readings and a sessional teacher in RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing course.
Tamara Zimet is the Deputy Programme Director at Edinburgh International Book Festival. She was the associate director at Sydney Writers’ Festival and in 2019 she was the founder and director of Broadside, a feminist ideas festival with the Wheeler Centre. Prior to that she worked in a range of arts and not-for-profit roles, including in communications at Screen Australia and publicity at the Wheeler Centre.
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