Jean Hinchliffe is a 17-year-old climate activist and an organiser within School Strike 4 Climate. She campaigns for legislative action against the sourcing and usage of fossil fuels, along with ...

Journalist, columnist and author Thomas Friedman has been one of the world’s most influential media figures for over a decade. In his twice-weekly New York Times column he’s written widely on issues ...

The Wheeler Centre is Melbourne’s home for smart, passionate and entertaining public talks. We support writers, readers and thinkers. Through live and digital conversations, debates, readings, ...

In 1985, Jeanette Winterson published her debut novel – the groundbreaking and subversive Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. Genre-bending and narratively bold, it garnered then-rare mainstream success ...

Chad Harbach’s highly acclaimed first novel is The Art of Fielding. He is currently the executive editor of n+1 magazine, which he co-founded. Chad Harbach grew up in Wisconsin, and graduated from ...

A family holiday. A tiny beach house. Scorching heat. And the secret behind Gramma’s mouthwatering meatballs. Greg Heffley is back – and trouble is brewing – in this special performance by Jeff Kinney ...

Dr Kate Cuthbert is the Publishing Director at Books+Publishing, Australia’s news and information website for the book sector. Previously, she held senior roles at Pantera Press, Writers Victoria and ...

Stacey McEwan is the best-selling author of the Glacian Trilogy and the Alchemy series. Her books have been translated into multiple languages. Her high school English teacher once called her writing ...

Stacy is an cartoonist, illustrator, and radio presenter working on the lands of the Kulin nation. His illustration work has appeared in publications such as the ABC, The Washington Post and VICE and ...

Jemmason Power is a 28-year-old First Nations model (As We Are Agency, based in Brisbane), mother and full-time facilitator. Throughout her childhood and young adult life, Jemmason's identity was ...

Coral Reeve, the humankind, is a proud Gunditjmara woman, currently living on Wathawurrung Country. She often indulges in too many coffees and the click clack of the keyboard writing short stories and ...

Freddy (Emily) Weir is a writer, comedian, and Furby collector. They’ve been working as a copywriter for nearly a decade now, and their work has appeared on TV screens and billboards around Australia.