Author: Southerly

Holly Friedlander Liddicoat has previously been published in Cordite, Otoliths, Rabbit, Seizure, Southerly and Voiceworks. In 2017 she edited poetry for Voiceworks and the UTS Writers’ Anthology and has twice been shortlisted for the UTS Writers’ Anthology Prize. Her first collection, Crave, is out with Rabbit.

Oliver Wakelin is a PhD candidate at UNSW, a USYD law grad, and a fiction reader at Overland. His reviews have appeared in Southerly, Audrey Journal, ArtsHub, Australian Arts Review, and elsewhere. Short stories in Southerly, Seizure, TEXT and Overland. A couple of his plays have been read at Sport For Jove Theatre Company, where he is the literary manager. His novel Aos Sí was selected for the longlist of the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award.

Fiona Morrison is a Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media at UNSW, where she has taught and supervised in the areas of postcolonial and world literatures, Australian literature and women’s writing. Her research has included work on twentieth century Australian women writers, including Henry Handel Richardson, Christina Stead and Dorothy Hewett. Her most recent book was Christina Stead and the Matter of America (SUP, 2019), and she is currently working on a project that examines representations of provincial modernity in Richardson’s trilogy, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.

Debra Adelaide’s literary career commenced in the late 1980s, and since then she has been a freelance writer, book reviewer, editor, researcher, and finally an academic. She studied at the University of Sydney, where she also worked as a tutor in the English department in the early 1980s and completed a doctorate in Australian literature in 1990. Her latest books are Zebra and The Innocent Reader, both published by Picador. Her first novel, The Hotel Albatross, was published in 1995. Prior to that she was the author of Australian Women Writers, a bibliographic guide, and editor of the collection A Bright and Fiery Troop (1988), which was part…

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Kate Lilley is a poet and academic. She is a member of the English Department of the University of Sydney. Her first book of poems, Versary (Salt 2002), won the Grace Leven Prize and was short-listed for the NSW Premier’s Awards, 2002. Widely anthologised, her second book, Ladylike, is forthcoming from Salt. She has also edited Dorothy Hewett: Selected Poems (UWAP 2010) and the Penguin Classics edition of Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World and other writings.

Elizabeth McMahon teaches in the English program at the University of New South Wales, specifically Australian literature, women’s writing and critical theory. Her most research and writing focuses on Australia’s island imaginary and how imaginative geography has shaped Australian literature. With Brigitta Olubas she edited Women Making Time: Contemporary Feminist Critique and Cultural Analysis (2006) and Remembering Patrick White: Contemporary Critical Essays (2010). Before taking the co-editorship of Southerly, she edited Australian Humanities Review from 1997-2007.