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Ya Reeves is a freelance outdoor and environmental educator from Far East Gippsland. Following in her parents footsteps, she studied a bachelor of outdoor education with honours and has worked in wild and beautiful places across Australia. She divides her time between sharing the bush with tertiary and high school students, running, painting, skiing, surfing, mount bike riding, climbing, fly fishing, hiking, playing music and writing. Over This Backbone is her first novel. She currently resides in North East Victoria, at the base of Mount Bogong, with a beautiful community of friends and a lot of plants.

Following the establishment of a career leading human services, Denise Picton retrained in business and established a management consulting firm that has worked across Australia and Asia for over thirty years. In her twenties she published short fiction in literary journals, and returned to writing to begin work on a series of novels in her fifties.

Ben Hobson is a teacher, and an author, based in Brisbane.To Become a Whale, his debut novel, was released in 2017. It was longlisted for the ABIA Debut Fiction award and shortlisted for the Courier-Mail's People's Choice Award. His second novel, Snake Island, a literary thriller, was released in 2019. He also runs Ben's Book Club, a monthly online book club for libraries, and the Burgers, Beers and Books podcast.The Death of John Lacey is his third novel.

Costa Georgiadis is Australia’s most famous landscape architect and TV presenter who has an all-consuming passion for plants and people – he knows how to bring out the best in both of them, and takes great pleasure in bringing them together.

His holistic approach is all about gardening, the soil, and the soul.

Eliza is an author based on a little flower farm on Wurundjeri land in the Yarra Valley of Victoria, Australia.

Her latest novel Salt and Skin was published by Ultimo Press in 2022 across ANZ, and will be published in July 2023 by September Publishing across the UK and US.

She is the author of In the Quiet (2015), Ache (2017) and the young adult novels P is for Pearl (2018) and How to Grow a Family Tree (2020). Her novels have been listed for awards

Ashley Kalagian Blunt is a writer, speaker and podcaster. Her bestselling psychological thriller, Dark Mode, is out now in Australia and the UK, and forthcoming in Germany.

She is the author of two previous books, How to Be Australian, a memoir, and My Name Is Revenge, a thriller novella and collected essays.

Her writing appears widely across Australian and international publications.

Ashley is a frequent speaker and panel moderator, and co-hosts a podcast on writing, creativity and health.

Roland Perry has published 37 books in a range of genres including biography, politics, espionage, history (WWI and WWII), sport and fiction, including popular biographies on sporting legend Sir Donald Bradman.
By popular demand, Roland will join us once again, this time to discuss