Next Big Thing

Raeden Richardson was raised in Melbourne and graduated the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the American Australian Association. He has been an artist-in-residence at La Napoule Art Foundation and Yaddo. His writing has appeared in Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings, The Age, Strangely Enough and New Australian Fiction. His debut novel, The Degenerates, is forthcoming in September 2024.

Jessica Knight is a writer based in Naarm. Her memoir was published by Ultimo Press in 2024. It’s entitled Strange Little Girl.

Esther Tuddenham is a vibrant person who loves the arts. Esther’s passions are Music, Poetry and Photography.

Josh Kemp is an author of Australian gothic and crime fiction. His debut novel, Banjawarn, was the winner of the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award, the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction and the 2023 Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Best Emerging Writer. Jasper Cliff is his second novel. He lives in the Sout West of WA but finds himself drawn, over and over again, to the red dirt of the state’s north.

Tex Henning Wise is a Melbourne/Narram-based writer who enjoys queer fiction and horror stories. Their writing has a focus on horror and identity, with a mix of magical realism and surrealism. They have been a student at Melbourne Young Writers Studio for 6 years and are in their third year of Bachelor of Creative Writing at RMIT.