Walter Marsh is a journalist based in Tarntanya/Adelaide with a background in history and culture.

John Maynard is a Worimi Aboriginal man and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle.

Sarah McKay is an Oxford University-educated neuroscientist, author, speaker and director of Think Brain's suite of online professional training programs in brain health and applied neuroscience.

Nick McKenzie is a 16-time winner of the Walkley Award, Australia’s highest journalism honour, and four-time Australian Journalist of the Year. He is a leading Australian investigative journalist who works for newspapers Melbourne’s The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Jim Moginie was raised in Sydney's northern suburbs and attended high school by the banks of Sydney Harbour, where he befriended future Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst.

Emily Eklund Power is a writer, media and communications professional with a passion for news and current affairs

Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, which won the 2020 Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Book Award and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize and was shortlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Jeanne Ryckmans has worked for more than two decades in Australian publishing. A co-founder of literary agency Key People Literary Management, she is a former senior publisher at Random House, HarperCollins and Black Inc, and Artistic Director of the Canberra Writers’ Festival (2019-2022).

Sara M. Saleh is a writer/poet and human rights lawyer. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published widely and she is co-editor of the ground-breaking 2019 anthology Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity.

Michele Seminara is a poet and editor from the Northern Beaches of Sydney.

Patrick Skene was born and raised in Sydney and writes stories on the intersection of sport, history and culture.

Lachlan Strahan was an Australian diplomat for 30 years, serving in Germany, Korea, India (as deputy High Commissioner), Switzerland (as acting UN Permanent Representative) and Solomon Islands (as High Commissioner until January 2023).

Jill Valentine has spent over two decades in the investment banking industry, crafting narratives as a communications and PR executive. Now, she’s flipping the script with her debut novel High Heels & Low Blows (2024).

James Vella-Bardon was born and raised in Malta, an island nation influenced by thousands of years of imperial history, from the Romans to the British where his passion for exciting and dramatic historical events was formed.

Sam Vincent has written for The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review and The Best Australian Essays. His first book, Blood and Guts, was longlisted for the Walkley Book Award.