Lydia Alexandra Best is a writer, poet and photographer based on rural Wurundjeri bushland. She is a graduate of RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing degree and her work was published in Prism – An Anthology (2022). Her writing focuses on her deep, reverberating connection to nature, family and travel.

Shanon Chong has been writing ever since a keyboard freed them from their horrible handwriting. They wrote a novel at fifteen and feel embarrassed that they ever wrote it at all. Currently studying at RMIT, they contemplate existence in an early-life crisis.

Alyssa De Leo is a writer based in Melbourne/Naarm. She has an Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting and won the 2019 MIFF x TAC Split Second Film Competition for her script The Afterlife Bar. Alyssa is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) at RMIT and writes freelance for Collider and Yardbarker.

Maxyn Dorz is a copywriter and second-year student in RMIT’s Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing). She enjoys free food deals and playing football for a rival university. Her current project explores the lives of Damiano Bertoli, Lucio Battisti and Roman god Mercury in the context of the year 1969.

Elki Gillen-Turner is a visual artist, poet and creative non-fiction writer, living on unceded Boonwurrung lands. Her practice demands conversations about trauma and un-censoring the self. Using spiritualism and synergistic connections to nature as a guiding tool, Turner loves shaping her craft through an openness.

Una Healy is an Irish born woman living on unceded Wurundjeri land. At 51 years of age, Una delights in describing herself as a late bloomer when it comes to her writing practice. She is a mother, librarian and feminist and no longer compromises.

Angus Kinloch was born in Canberra and moved to Melbourne in 2022 to study creative writing at RMIT. His writerly interests focus on surreal and psychological horror. Inspired by Iain Reid, Ari Aster and Don Hertzfeldt, Angus is fascinated by the unexplainable. His most recent work is interested in exploring personal relationships to apocalypses and breaking away from the conventional idea of what is and is not a dystopia.

Conor Misson is a writer and performer currently completing a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) at RMIT. Conor completed the acting conservatory program at William Esper Studio in New York City. Returning to Melbourne, he embraced his playwriting interests, writing and producing his debut play Where the Cherry Blossoms Bloom at the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2020.

Mallory Mills was born in Clayton, Melbourne. She is studying Creative Writing at RMIT, with a focus on YA fiction. She was dux of VCE English and has previously published with Bowen Street Press. Mallory writes to create worlds and inspire girls all over the world.

Jack Muroyama is an employee at Grill’d and Archie Brothers Arcade with an interest in screenwriting, winning high school filmmaking competitions with the power of a Google Pixel. He grew up on the northern beaches of Sydney and did not go to pre-school. He is currently studying Creative Writing at RMIT, while living with a selection of his peers.

Chay Newman lives and works in Melbourne. She is currently studying creative writing at RMIT. In 2022, she published work in RMIT’s student magazine Catalyst, and the anthology book Hurt and Comfort. Inspired by the likes of Caitlyn Siehl and Emily Dickenson, Chay focuses on epic poetry and long-form prosaic stories.

Charlotte Sherlock is a Melbourne-based writer. She has experience playwriting while working with the New Writers Collective, a collective for young, queer femme people’s writing. Drawing inspiration from Tolkien, her writing style is playful, honest and abstract at times. Her piece explores the complex relationship she has with herself and her identity, and is full of heart.

Feather Treloar is in their second year of a Creative Writing Bachelor at RMIT. They are an avid Dungeons & Dragons player and enjoy multiple forms, both fiction and non-fiction. They aim to create authentic shifts in tone, balancing both fun and sincerity.

Tex Henning Wise, known as Texas to most, is a second-year student in the RMIT Creative Writing course and an alumnus of the Melbourne Young Writers Studio, where he recently finished a six-year residency. His creative practice extends onto the stage, where he worked as a dramaturge for seven years in the Victorian Youth Theatre.

Sam Bundey is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She is currently completing a Bachelor of Creative Writing at RMIT University and has an interest in fiction and art writing. Sam lived in America for ten years, and her interests outside writing include Dungeons & Dragons, board games and dogs.

Shannon Couldrey is an INFJ-T with a Taurus sun and Virgo moon, Shannon is a creative writing student at RMIT. Her writing is confessional and intimate as she typically writes and journals for herself - the audience is incidental. Attempting to wrap her head around the fact that writing doesn't need to be serious, Shannon is continuously experimenting and approaching her creative practice in unusual ways.

Shane Dela Rosa, a student at RMIT pursuing Bachelor of Arts in creative writing, would rather dream of stories than write them as a writer should. She produces miserable fiction and relatively 'acceptable' poetry. She has a ginger cat named Tamago who suffers from her nightly gossip.

Naomi Garcia is a writer with a passion for creative storytelling drawing inspiration from her everyday experiences and relationships. Naomi aims to make a positive impact on her readers through her words that illustrate her emotion and dedication to her craft. Naomi believes in the power of words to shape, influence and inspire others and strives to achieve this in her creative writing endeavours.

Amanda Greenberger was born in Melbourne and is currently studying a Bachelor of Creative Writing at RMIT. She is interested in writing fantasy and sci-fi novels and is inspired by creators such as George Lucas, Stan Lee, Leigh Bardugo and Rick Riordan. Amanda can be contacted by email.

Paris Hines is a Melbourne based multidisciplinary writer, working towards an undergraduate degree in Creative Writing at RMIT. She has performed and written minor productions within the RMIT RedActs, with hopes of directing a self-written play in the near future. She studies a politics minor in an effort to further inform her writing, as her interests are based in the personal and political aspects of writing and its effect on the wider world.

Jack Linke is a Melbourne-based writer working in hypertext to deal with themes of surveillance and labour. He has been published twice by the Bowen Street Press, in Grit & Growing and Monstrous Appetites. He plays Dungeons & Dragons in his spare time and is a student in the Creative Writing course at RMIT.

Lucinda Mills is a writer and poet based in Melbourne. She is passionate about the ways writing can illustrate the beauty of the mundane in fluid, changing ways. The process of writing is a means of expression of both her own experiences, and that of anyone who may encounter her work.

Elliot Mulder is a 23-year-old Creative Writing student who loves to explore the emotional complexities of life and sink his teeth into the weirdness that creativity offers. Having completed RMIT’s Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting, he’s now turning his mind to prose. A challenge, but one that's more than welcome!

Elissar Mustapha is a student at RMIT studying a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing). Amidst reading, and Swedish language study, Elissar has self-published her first poetry book, Inherent Skeletons of a Melancholy Mind. Her current art writing piece depicts her life as if a photograph under development in a red room.

Amelia Pagram is a Creative Writing student at RMIT who specialises in creative non-fiction essaying. She aims for her writing to co-exist with genre, challenging the rules of definition. She also experiments with poetry but tries her best to avoid fiction if she can help it.

Brynn Townley lives in Melbourne. He studies Creative writing at RMIT. He was born in South Africa but grew up in Malaysia and Singapore. In 2021 he published poetry in his High School anthology Fray and Mend and has been working on a novel. His work is concerned largely with the emotional experiences of those who grew up with the internet, neurodivergence and how overconsumption affects one's self concept, faith, and relationships with others.

Palmina Vilone is studying a Bachelor of Creative Writing at RMIT. Her interests include short stories, fantasy and literary horror. When she isn’t writing she can be found devouring Stephen King Novels surrounded by her many pets. Her writing has been published in Tabula Rasa Review, Gems Zine and Verandah Journal.

Xiting Zhu was born in China, she came to Melbourne in 2016. The multicultural diverse background enabled her creative practice to form a more liberalised perspective. She is currently studying Creative Writing at RMIT. Her writings focused on poetic prose, feminist and queer anthology and creative fiction with a specific interest in exploring the depths and limits of the human psyche.