Authors and Guests

Tim Elliott

Writer

Tim Elliott is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has appeared in London’s The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, and The Australian. He is currently senior writer at Good Weekend, the Saturday magazine for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, where he has won two Kennedy Awards and been nominated for a Walkley. His stories have also won Best Feature at the Australian Magazine Awards and from the Australian Society of Magazine Editors.

A 2014 Good Weekend story by Tim about his father’s suicide generated one of the largest reader responses in the history of The Sydney Morning Herald and let to his book, Farewell to the Father, in 2016. His first book, The Bolivian Times, is an account of six months he spent working on an English language paper in South America.

 

We're welcoming Tim back in 2025 for some more fantastic input.

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Hattie Archibald

Hattie is an emerging director, producer and writer originally from Scone, NSW who graduated from AFTRS in 2019 with a Master of Arts: Screen in Directing.

Lauren Forner

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

Joanne Fedler

Joanne Fedler is the internationally bestselling author of 15 books. She is a writing mentor and runs retreats for aspiring women

Suzanne Leal

SUZANNE LEAL is the author of novels The Watchful Wife, The Teacher’s Secret and The Deceptions, winner of the Nib People’s Choice Prize.

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