Hunter Fujak is a Lecturer in Sports Management at Deakin University in Melbourne. His PhD explored sports consumer behaviour, specifically in understanding consumption patterns within Australia’s crowded sports marketplace.

Lisa Gallate is a senior commercial litigator specialising in class actions and corporate insolvency with a master’s degree in law from Cambridge University.

Genevieve Gannon is an author and award-winning journalist based in Sydney. Over her 15-year career she has worked as a front-line reporter in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney covering crime, health, social affairs and politics.

Michael Gawenda is one of Australia’s best-known journalists and authors. In a career spanning four decades, he was a political reporter, a foreign correspondent based in London and in Washington, a columnist, a feature writer, and a senior editor at Time Magazine.

Lucas Gillard from Melbourne works principally in marketing, but is also a writer, playwright, and poet.

Jason Goldsmith has written Green and Golden Boots (2023) and Surfing for England (2019), co-written Be My Guest (2021) and collaborated with Lucas Gillard on George Best in Australia (2024).

Robert Gott has published many books for children, and is also the creator of the newspaper cartoon The Adventures of Naked Man, which ran in The Age newspaper in Melbourne for 20 years.

Ben Groundwater is a Sydney-based writer, columnist, author, blogger and broadcaster who specialises in food and travel. He writes weekly for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers.

Tracy Hall is an author, keynote speaker and senior marketing executive with extensive experience with start-ups, large corporations and global tech brands in Australia and the US.

Helen Hayes headed off on her first European adventure at the age of 23, and travel has been a driving force ever since.

Andrew Howe grew up in Sydney where his first sporting passion was for the Cronulla Sharks rugby league team and his academic ability was for statistics and history.

Amy Hutton is an award-winning television producer and writer of romantic comedies who grew up on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

Zeina Issa is a Sydney-based Australian-Lebanese poet, translator and published columnist.

Kirsty Jagger is a journalist by trade. In 2019, she won the inaugural Heyman Mentorship Award.

Lou Johnson is co-founder and director of Key People Literary Management after a 30-year career working globally with hundreds of authors, brands, and businesses.

Thomas Keneally AO is an Australian living treasure who has written novels, non-fiction, essays, and plays in a writing career spanning 60 years. He has won multiple awards including the prestigious Booker Prize for Schindler’s Ark in 1982 and is a four-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award.

Tracey Kirkland has spent more than 30 years as a journalist writing for broadcast and print. During COVID, she was the ABC’s national news-gathering editor.

Maggie Kirkman is a psychologist and a Senior Research Fellow in Global and Women’s Health at Monash University. Her research includes women’s experiences of infertility, abortion, donor-assisted conception, breast cancer and ageing well.

Will Kostakis is an award-winning author for young adults. He’s been at it for 15 years, but his mum insists it’s just a phase and any day now, he’ll pursue a real career.

Summer Land is an author, ghostwriter, copywriter, podcaster, keynote speaker and moderator.