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Contributors & Acknowledgements
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ONLINE Editors
Monique Gilham
Hasna Hanim
Annabel Holt
Alexander King
Lisa Linford
Jack Nottingham
Drew Pearman
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Contributors
Emily Baxter is a Melbourne-based freelance writer who is currently studying her Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT. When she’s not reading a book you can find Emily making a cake (and eating it too) or playing a game of netball to work off all the cake she just ate.
Kelcey Brian is currently completing her Masters in Writing and Publishing, and working full-time in an audiobook publishing house. She has performed at the Emerging and Digital Writer’s Festivals and has had poetry and essays published with Rabbit and Shared Moon—all while claiming to only write fiction novels.
Michelle Buckley is a sometimes-writer and editor who is curious about the English language and grammar. She loves a good story, great coffee and discovering new cities by foot.
Eliza Campbell is a journalist and creative writer based in Melbourne. With a vaguely philosophical and overly existential state of being, her works are reflective, humorous and (sometimes) cynical explorations of literary metaphysics.
Dylan Dartnell is a Masters student at RMIT devoting his post-grad studies to his first loves, literature and grammar. He is an editor for Underground Writers and has been published by Westerly magazine. He runs, he reads, and hopes his telekinetic abilities will manifest soon.
Lilian Galea is currently completing her Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT where she has worked on such projects as Vanishing Act and Bound. She aspires to be a writer, publisher and all-round decent human being, having had works published in the zine Botanicals and with online magazine Swamp.
Sanam Goodman is currently studying a Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT and works for educational publisher Oxford University Press. She has an interest in poetry, prose and essays and would love to publish cook books one day.
Freya Howarth studied philosophy and human ecology, before executing a deft sidestep into publishing. Freya is an editorial assistant at Aeon, a bookseller and writes reviews for Kill Your Darlings. She is fluent in French and is interested in literature, translation and the intersection between science and the arts.
Nicolette Jahn completed a Bachelors of Creative Arts with a major in Creative and Professional Writing at La Trobe University. Now working at the Bavarian International School in Germany, Nicolette translates and edits published communications for the school. In addition, she writes for screenwriting competitions alongside her other responsibilities.
Lauren Kelly is a freelancer based in regional Victoria and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at RMIT. Her undergraduate degree was mostly concerned with old things buried deep underground and the people that left them there. In her free time she panics about wasting all her free time and spends too much time on the internet.
Sam King is an editor and sensitivity reader. She is passionate about furthering diversity in creative industries and media representation, and prides herself on being the Mom Friend in all her social circles. You can find her on Instagram @sensitivityreader.
Lauren Magee is a development editor at Cambridge University Press and a travel enthusiast. When she’s not eating her way around the world, she loves reading, drinking tea, and every dog that has ever existed.
Natacha Manomaiphan has an unwavering passion for poetry. It is her one true love and partner-in-crime. While studying the Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT University, she continues to reclaim and redefine the boundaries of her multicultural identity.
Tianna Morrison spends her days churning through fantasy books, browsing the racks at op shops across Melbourne and thinking about writing more than actually writing. She’s currently working towards a Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT, and her favourite punctuation mark is the comma, even if everyone else hates them.
Luke Nichol is studying a Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT University. He likes finger guns, dinkuses and referring to things as ‘groovy’. He is uncomfortable most of the time.
Emily Osborne is a writer, editor and beekeeper living in Melbourne. She edits for Voiceworks Online, works in digital communications and studies writing and publishing at RMIT.
Jacob Pilkington was born in Melbourne and lived in Australia until his early teens. Much of his youth and adult years were spent in America. At an early age he kindled a love of reading which has not diminished over the years. He especially loves the Beat writers of the 1950s and the Classical Russians. He began seriously writing at fifteen and has not stopped since.
Sarah Pradolin could happily spend her days reading books and drinking coffee, gets excited at any mention of Harry Potter (literally any) and is a bright-eyed editor in the making. She currently studies a Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT University and runs a book review blog (when there’s a free minute). You can find her content at sarahpradolin.com.
Mark Russell never thought he’d need to know the function of a colon: he still can’t quite believe the necessity. There’s no excuse for his continued use of poor grammar. The more he thinks about prepositions, the less sense he makes of it.
Natalie Sakarintr is a sometimes writer and editor based in Melbourne who grew up in rural Victoria.
Emma Taylor is a Ballarat-based writer and editor. She was an editor for Verandah Literary and Art Journal in 2017. She enjoys working with emerging writers and explored the editor’s role in storytelling for emerging short fiction writers for her Honours thesis. Emma is currently studying her Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT.
Nicole Willis is currently studying her Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT. She is an exhibited painter, freelance writer, currently restoring a vintage bicycle and dislikes referencing intensely.
Hanna Whiteside is a former environmental scientist who made the transition to writing when she discovered more meaning behind words than numbers. She is now completing her Master of Writing and Publishing at RMIT in Melbourne.
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Acknowledgements
First and foremost, we would like to thank our contributors for allowing us to dredge up essays they’d probably rather forget and being so lovely as we encouraged them to do even more work on them.
Many thanks to our designers: Nina Gibbes, for an excellent cover, and Zoe Dzunko, for whipping up a text design template literally at the airport.
To our typesetter, Megan Ellis, we appreciate you wrangling our manuscript into a manageable set of first pages immensely!
Finally, we would like to thank Tracy O’Shaughnessy for giving us the freedom to undertake this project in any way we chose, and Zoe Dzunko (again!) for listening to our complaints each and every week, without any of her own.