Writers vs AI

Maki Morita is a writer and performance-maker of Japanese descent on unceded Wurundjeri country. Her play Trash Pop Butterflies, Dance Dance Paradise debuted at Theatre Works in 2023. Her prose and poetry has appeared in Cordite, Island Magazine, The Suburban Review, Mascara Literary Review, Portside Review, and more. Maki graduated with a Master of Theatre […]

Matilda Sutherland is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Matilda’s creative studio and blog, Girl On Road, serves as a vessel for projects in HCI and code poetics. In 2021 Matilda began performing original punk rock and country music under her birth name. Through all disciplines Matilda brings poetry, whether it be creating evocative digital […]

Ivy Crago is a Theatre-Maker, Writer, and Producer based in Melbourne/Naarm. A 2022 graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts in Theatre, their work is playful and imaginative, often inspired by the absurdity within the mundane. Ivy has presented work at Melbourne Fringe Hub, Darebin’s FUSE Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and more. As […]

Sam Lieblich is a writer, psychiatrist, and artist based between Narrm and Yolŋu country. His clinical practice is oriented by Lacanianism, Marxism, and a commitment to the singularity and the radical freedom of each human subject. Recently his art and writing tries to re-situate human desire in or against the algorithm. His work has been […]

Faisal Oddang, a fiction and poetry writer, and a lecturer in Indonesian Literature Department at Hasanuddin University. His books include the novels Puya ke Puya and Tiba Sebelum Berangkat, the short story collection Sawerigading Datang dari Laut, and the poetry book Manurung. He participated in the 2019 London Book Fair and the 2018 Iowa International Writing Program. He received the 2023 Southeast Asian Literary Council (MASTERA) Young Writer Award, was named Best Short Story Writer by Kompas in 2014 and 2018, and served as a curator for Makassar International Writers Festival (2022–2023) and Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in 2024.