The Committed Reader

Belinda Castles is a novelist and lecturer at the University of Sydney, and the editor of Reading Like an Australian Writer. Her novels have won the Australian/Vogel and Asher Literary Awards and been longlisted for the Stella Prize, and she has been named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists.

Roanna Gonsalves is the award-winning author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP). Her four-part radio series On the tip of a billion tongues, commissioned and broadcast by ABC RN’s Earshot program, is a portrayal of contemporary India through its multilingual writers. She works as a lecturer in Creative Writing at UNSW Sydney.

Teela Reid is a proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, a senior solicitor at Chalk & Behrendt and the inaugural First Nations Lawyer in Residence at the University of Sydney Law School. She is the co-founder of @blackfulla_bookclub, a platform that honours First Nations ancestors as the original storytellers. In 2022, Teela was Contributing Editor of Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning.