CONTRIBUTORS

MURRAY BAIL’s novels include Eucalyptus (which won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1999), The Pages and The Voyage.

TONY BIRCH’S books include Shadowboxing (2006), Father’s Day (2009), Blood (2011), shortlisted for the Miles Franklin literary award, and The Promise (2014). His new novel, Ghost River, will be published in October 2015. He is currently the the inaugural Bruce McGuinness Research Fellow within the Moondani Balluk Centre at Victoria University.

JAMES BRADLEY is a novelist and critic. His books include four novels, Clade, Wrack, The Deep Field and The Resurrectionist; a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus; and The Penguin Book of the Ocean. He writes and reviews for a wide range of newspapers and magazines in Australia and internationally, and blogs at cityoftongues.com.

J.M. COETZEE was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes the novels Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace, both of which won the Booker Prize. His most recent novel is The Childhood of Jesus. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and is now a resident of Australia.

PATRICK CULLEN’S short stories have appeared in many anthologies and have been broadcast on ABC Radio National. He lives in Newcastle with his wife and two children. His first book, What Came Between, was published in 2009.

LIAM DAVISON published four novels: The Velodrome, Soundings, The White Woman and The Betrayal, as well as two collections of short stories. His work was shortlisted for numerous major literary prizes and he won the National Book Council’s Banjo Award for Soundings.

PETER GOLDSWORTHY’S short-story collections include Little Deaths (short-listed for the Christina Stead Award), and Gravel (shortlisted for the ASL Gold Medal). A Collected Stories was published in 2006. His much-anthologised story ‘The Kiss’ is also available in a separate Penguin Specials edition; Ashlee Page’s film adaptation of it won numerous awards, including both the Dendy and AFI awards for best short feature.

RODNEY HALL has twice won both the Miles Franklin Award, for Just Relations and The Grisly Wife, and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, for The Second Bridegroom and The Day We Had Hitler Home. His most recent book, Silence, was published in 2011.

PATRICK HOLLAND lives between Brisbane, Saigon and Beijing. His stories have been published and broadcast in Australia, the UK, Ireland, Japan, Canada, the USA and Italy. His novels include The Darkest Little Room, a thriller set in Saigon, and The Mary Smokes Boys, which was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year. His most recent novel is Navigatio.

NAM LE is the author of The Boat, which won over a dozen major awards and was selected for over thirty ‘best books of the year’ lists internationally. He currently divides his time between Melbourne and overseas.

DAVID MALOUF is the author of poems, fiction, libretti and essays. In 1996, his novel Remembering Babylon was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His 1998 Boyer Lectures were published as A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness. His most recent novel is Ransom.

SHANE MALONEY is one of Australia’s most popular novelists and a winner of the Ned Kelly Prize for Crime Fiction.

ALEX MILLER has twice been awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Ancestor Game and Journey to the Stone Country. He has also won the Age Book of the Year Award, for Lovesong, and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, for Coal Creek. He has been an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and in 2012 he was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature.

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.