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Kim Wilkins lectures in Writing, Publishing, and 21st-Century Book Culture at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is a recognised expert on creative practice, genre fiction, and the publishing industry. She is the author of more than 30 full-length works of fiction, and her work is translated into more than 20 languages globally. Her scholarly research centres on creative communities, such as writing groups and fan cultures. She is most recently the author of a Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: conventions, originality, reproducibility (2019). Helen Marshall is a Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing at the University of Queensland, Australia. She researches genre fiction, modern and medieval publishing cultures, worldbuilding, franchise writing, and the application of creative arts methodologies for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary ideation. She has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and her debut novel The Migration was one of The Guardian's top science fiction books of the year. She has designed science fiction workshops for the Australian Department of Defence and at UQ with digital humanities researchers and robotics experts. Lisa Bennett is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Flinders University, Australia, where she researches Viking Age literature, genre fiction, and popular culture. Her speculative fiction has won four Aurealis Awards, an Australian National Science Fiction Award, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. She facilitates fantasy and horror fiction workshops for Writers SA, regularly reviews for the ABR, and is a recurrent guest on ABC Radio's 'Book of the Week' segment. With Kim Wilkins, she is the author of Writing Bestsellers: Love and Money (2021). |
