Parents Are Writers Too

Renee Imbesi (she/her) is living, learning and writing in Naarm (Melbourne) with her young family. She writes creative non-fiction including blogs, book reviews, life writing, feature interviews and other pieces about creativity, books and reading, parenthood, relationships and wellbeing. She launched her writing collection as a website called Make Family Magic in October 2024. She […]

Chloe Mayne is a poet and scholar working in the realms of decoloniality, motherhood and ecology. Her poems have been published in places such as Overland, Australian Poetry and Best of Australian Poems. She was a finalist in the 2024 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and is a current recipient of the Marten Bequest for Poetry. […]

Liza Dezfouli is a queer speaker, writer and performer based in Melbourne. She started writing when she was a sole parent of two young children. Since then she’s written short stories, plays, articles, and a novel. She’s acted in film and theatre, and performed cabaret, stand up comedy, spoken word and poetry. She was awarded the Darebin Mayor’s Creative Writing Prize for 2024 and has recently won the Hunter Writers’ Centre’s 2025 Winter Member Competition. Her one-woman comedy show, Binosaur, will be presented in the Midsumma 2026 festival.