Making Arts Careers Work: A Roundtable with Overland

Kate Larsen (she/her) is a Naarm/Melbourne-based reader, writer, arts and cultural consultant with more than 25 years’ experience in the non-profit, government and cultural sectors in Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom. Her work has been published or commissioned by The Relationship is the Project, Meanjin, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, Westerly and anthologies, magazines and […]

Cher Tan is an essayist and critic. Her essays, criticism and other written work have been published widely. She is an editor at Liminal and the reviews editor at Meanjin. Her critically-acclaimed debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging, is out with NewSouth Publishing. She lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri land.

Aviva Tuffield is a publisher at the University of Queensland Press. She has worked in publishing for over 20 years including as a publisher at Black Inc. and Affirm Press, and associate publisher at Scribe Publications, where she was responsible for launching their Australian fiction list. Her authors at UQP include Tony Birch, Ellen van Neerven, Siang Lu, Mirandi Riwoe and Evelyn Araluen. She was also a co-founder and inaugural executive director of the Stella Prize.

Luke Horton is a writer, critic and creative writing lecturer from Naarm. His debut novel, The Fogging, was highly commended for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and published by Scribe in 2020. His latest novel, Time Together, was published by Scribe in March 2025.