Authors and Guests

Lauren Forner

Writer

Lauren Forner is the fiction, poetry and experimental forms editor at Mona Magazine, a magazine founded in 2020 that explores the female experience in rural Australia. She has been awarded various prizes for her published short stories and published a collection of poetry, Parts of a Whole, in 2021. Lauren has over a decade of experience teaching English literature and creative writing to teenagers, adults and children and reads like her life depends on it. She is perpetually completing her Masters in Creative Writing and, like all diligent writers, working on the elusive novel. Lauren currently lives on Wiradjuri Country in the Riverina, New South Wales, and dedicates most of her waking hours to her work in public mental health.

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Catherine Menage

Catherine is Artistic Director of BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, as well as facilitating at writers’ festivals and literary events

Geraldine Doogue

Geraldine has carved out an enviable reputation across print, television and radio, starting on “The West Australian” in Perth, before moving to The Australian, ABC’s Nationwide, 2UE, Channel 10 news, hosting ABC TV’s Compass program and continuing in various roles on ABC RN and via podcasting.

Michael Burge

Michael Burge is an Australian journalist, author and artist who lives at Deepwater on Ngarabal Country in the New England region of NSW. His debut novel Tank Water is a coming-of-age crime thriller set in the bush.

Chanel Contos

Founder of the ‘Teach us Consent’ movement, and winner of the Human Rights Awards Young People’s Medal, Chanel Contos is an activist achieving BIG changes. 

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