Art, Sex & Rock’n’Roll are Arts Journalist Bec Mac’s favorite subjects! She has explored these topics as a commentator, provocative performance artist and producer whose work straddles broadcast media, performing arts, visual arts, and photography. An innovative thinker, Bec Mac has developed a highly successful model of community engagement through partnerships with multiple City Councils and Festivals including The City Of New York. Through this her ongoing project, LOVE TV, Bec Mac is a curator of cultural conversations working with communities in collective story telling. This enigmatic, fast thinking, dynamic host never fails to get her story. Bec Mac is the presenter of 4ZZZ radio’s premiere art show Friday Neon, the legendary live art show LOVE TV, and has just launched her new web series POPSART and writes a weekly feature in the AU Review. 
 

Anosh Irani’s latest novel, The Parcel, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.  It was chosen as one of the Books of the Year by The Globe and Mail, National Post, CBC, and the Quill & Quire.  His play, Bombay Black, won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, and his anthology, The Bombay Plays, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award.

Debra Jopson completed the first draft of Oliver of the Levant while participating in the first Faber Academy novel writing course held in Australia in 2011. Born in Sydney, she spent part of her childhood in Beirut and continued to visit her family there during the first rounds of the 1970s Lebanese civil war. She has worked as a journalist for major media outlets over four decades, most recently at The Sydney Morning Herald, where she specialised in Aboriginal affairs and major investigations, winning a Walkley award and numerous Human Rights Commission honours. Over the past three years she has devoted herself to writing fiction and long-form journalism, contributing to The Global Mail, The Saturday Paper, Good Weekend, ABCTV’s Four Corners and SBS. In 2014, she became the Walkley Awards Freelance Journalist of the Year.

Krissy Kneen is the award winning author of the memoir Affection, the novels Steeplechase,Triptych,The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, and the Thomas Shapcott Award winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. Her latest novel is An Uncertain Grace. She has written and directed broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC television.