Stranger than Fiction

Hannah Bambra is a writer, peer support worker and reproductive health advocate.

She has been published in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Monthly, Melbourne Review, Spineless Wonders and more.

Hannah has a special interest in sexual reproductive health, fertility and storytelling as a form of healing.

Emma Hardy is an Australian writer based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her writing has been published in Guernica, The Monthly, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Lifted Brow, Voiceworks and Going Down Swinging. Emma lives with premenstrual dysphoric disorder, which is the topic of her debut book, Periodic Bitch. She often writes about women, animals, madness and the lines between.

Ruth Larner is an Australian multi-disciplinary writer. In 2023, she was selected for the WestWords Academy program; the following year, she received the WestWords Varuna Emerging Writers’ Residency. In 2025, her short film “Mama Bird” won the Screen Illawarra x Creative Wollongong Short Film Competition. In 2026, Ruth was invited to read poetry at the Manly Writers’ Festival. Her work has appeared in the Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, WestWords’ Living Stories anthologies, and The Suburban Review. After living in London and Berlin, she now resides in Dharawal Country.

Hannah McElhinney is the author of Wormhole, a non-fiction exploration of alternative medicine, misinformation, medical misogyny and conspiracy therorys. She is also the author and creator of Rainbow History Class, a globally recognised book and social media channel that shares the queer and trans history we so rarely have the opportunity to learn. She wrote and directed the Webby-nominated docuseries TransAthletica, for which she won an Australian Directors’ Guild award, as well as its sequel, HOOPS. Hannah is the co-founder and chief creator of Snack Drawer, a social-first creative agency. She lives and writes on Wurundjeri land.