Writers Blocast

Nigel Featherstone is an Australian writer of contemporary adult fiction and creative journalism. He is the author of the novellas I’m Ready Now (Blemish Books 2012), which was short-listed for the 2013 ACT Writing and Publishing Award for Fiction, and Fall on Me (Blemish Books 2011), which won that award in 2012. His novel Remnants (Pandanus Books 2005) was published to considerable acclaim, as was his story collection Joy (2000). Nigel is also the author of over 45 stories published in Australian literary journals, including the Review of Australian Fiction, Meanjin, Island, and Overland, as well as in the US.

Peter Taggart is a Brisbane-based writer and theatre critic for ArtsHub. He writes about his family and occasionally Meryl Streep's family on his blog On The Verge of Compassion and co-hosts the fortnightly pop culture podcast Bring A Plate.

Rosanna Stevens' latest story -- Interviews with the Other Three Quarters -- is available through Seizure. Her essay on what we don't know about music will appear in The Griffith Review later this year. If you'd like to say hi or talk bed desks, she'd love to hear from you. (You can reach her on @RosannaBeatrice).

Broede Carmody is writer, journalist and editor. Originally from north-east Victoria, he currently studies journalism at RMIT University. He is the editor of Catalyst magazine and poetry editor forVoiceworks. His poetry and fiction has appeared in a variety of print and online journals. He tweets here.

Isabel Roper is a (finally) fifth-year ANU student who writes so she can avoid doing the washing up. She won the 2012 Mardi Gras Festival Short Story Competition (Under 26 division) and placed 3rd in the 2013 John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers. She writes Australian-themed realist fiction and maintains a list of funny things that other people have said and a much smaller, bonsai-scale collection of funny things she has said herself.

CJ Bowerbird is a spoken word artist and the 2013 Australian Poetry Slam Champion. He explores what it is to be human, taking audiences on flights through despair and salvation without ever losing his sense of humour. He has been a featured performer at the Bookworm International Literary Festival in China, the Ubud Writers Festival, TEDxCanberra and at festivals and events across Australia. He has performed in several cities in Indonesia and the US, and has read poetry on ABC National Radio.

CJ Bowerbird is a spoken word artist and the 2013 Australian Poetry Slam Champion. He explores what it is to be human, taking audiences on flights through despair and salvation without ever losing his sense of humour. He has been a featured performer at the Bookworm International Literary Festival in China, the Ubud Writers Festival, TEDxCanberra and at festivals and events across Australia. He has performed in several cities in Indonesia and the US, and has read poetry on ABC National Radio.