Creativity, Research, Craft

Mireille Juchau is a Sydney-based novelist, essayist, and critic. Her third novel, The World Without Us, was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize and won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. In 2020 she won the Walkley-Pascall Prize for her arts criticism. A former fiction editor of HEAT Magazine, Mireille has a PhD in literature and is an Honorary Affiliate, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.

Suneeta Peres da Costa is based in Sydney – on Gadigal. She writes fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry. Her most recent book Saudade (Giramondo; Transit Books), about colonial legacies and the Goan diaspora in Portuguese Angola, was shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the 2020 Adelaide Festival of Literature Awards, and a finalist in the 2020 Tournament of Books (USA). 

Felicity Plunkett is a poet and critic. Her books are A Kinder Sea (UQP), Vanishing Point (UQP) and the chapbook Seastrands (Vagabond). Felicity was UQP’s Poetry Editor for a decade and edited Thirty Australian Poets (UQP). She has a PhD from Sydney University and is a widely-published reviewer and essayist. Her latest essay ‘Plath Traps’ is in Sydney Review of Books.