NWC: Creative Chaos

Alice Griffin is Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director of Junkee Media. From setting the vision to storytelling, in two years Alice has led the youth media company into its innovative new era which has seen publications Junkee and Punkee collectively grow its communities to reach 30 million monthly. Alice is passionate about platforming emerging perspectives and, in doing so, making young people feel seen. As the host of Punkee’s vodcast, little things, Alice asks creatives about the accessible, affordable, sometimes unorthodox acts of self care they do to set themselves up for a day that feels happy vs productive.

Gemma is an AWGIE and AACTA nominated writer and actor. She found success through her multiple web-series – The Housemate (ABC iView) and Me & Her(pes) which clocked over 1 million views in it’s first week online and was later nominated for an AACTA Award. Gemma has also worked across numerous television series including The […]

Max Easton is a writer from Sydney. He is the creator of Barely Human, a zine and podcast series exploring underground music’s ties to counterculture and subculture. He is the author of two novels published by Giramondo: The Magpie Wing (longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award), and its follow-up Paradise Estate, released in 2023. […]

Madeleine Ryan is an Australian writer, director & author. Her articles & essays have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, SBS, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph & VICE. A Room Called Earth was her first novel. Her second novel, The Knowing, is out now. Her third novel, love, honour & obey, is […]