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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Our Guests

Daniel O’Malley

On the last day of graduate school, with no papers to grade or thesis left to write, and nothing interesting around to read, I started writing a novel

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.

Wendy McCarthy, AO

One of Australia’s most influential women, Wendy has made her mark in many extraordinary ways over an extraordinary career spanning more than 50 years.

Debra Oswald

Debra Oswald is a two-time winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and creator/head writer of the TV series Offspring.

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