Sydney Writers' Festival

Julian Morrow is one of those guys from The Chaser. Not sure which one.

• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel
• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel
• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel

Craig Reucassel is attending. But may be late.

• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel
• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel
• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel

DOMINIC KNIGHT has worked on The Chaser's creative projects in all media, including print, online, stage, radio, television and tele-evangelism. He recently began writing fiction in the hope that it will lead to fewer arrests than his work with The Chaser, and his novels ‘Disco Boy’ and ‘Comrades’ have been published. He is currently adapting his life into a movie called ‘The Antisocial Network’.

• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel
• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel
• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel

Chris Taylor is the author of the seven-volume magnum opus ‘Why Books Are Too Long’. He's currently leaking a collection of his poems to Julian Assange in the hope of getting them published.

• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel
• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel
• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel

Waleed Aly is a lecturer in politics at Monash University and the author of ‘What's Right? The Future of Conservatism in Australia’ (Quarterly Essay 37) and ‘People Like Us: How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West’. He is also the guitarist and main songwriter for Melbourne originals band Robot Child, which is the house band for The Chaser's new show, ‘The Empty Vessel’. In 2009 he played the lead guitar part in the world’s first-ever theatrical production of Pink Floyd’s classic album ‘The Wall’ with Nuworks Theatre in Melbourne.

• For Those Who’ve Come Across the Sea
• The Dissident Café: Tweeting from the Middle East
• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel

Chas Licciardello learnt to read in 2009. He is enjoying it.

• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel
• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel
• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel

Robot Child play original prog- and metal-influenced rock music with a splash of jazz and funk. Featuring Waleed Aly on lead guitar, Jeff Wortman on lead vocals, Marty Holt on bass, Jonny Palmer on keyboard and Dan Slater on drums.

• The Chaser’s Empty Vessel

Sonia Faleiro is an award-winning Indian journalist and author of ‘Beautiful Thing: Portrait of a Bombay Bar Dancer’. She is the author of a novel, ‘Girl’, and is a contributing editor at ‘Vogue India’. She was born in India, studied in the United Kingdom and currently lives in San Francisco. Supported by the Australia-India Council.

• Half the Sky
• Beautiful Thing
• Sonia Faleiro

George Megalogenis is a senior writer with ‘The Australian’ and the author of ‘Quarterly Essay 40, Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era’, ‘Faultlines: Race, Work and the Politics of Changing Australia’ and ‘The Longest Decade’. He is a regular guest on ABC TV’s ‘Insiders’ program and runs the popular blog, ‘Meganomics’.

• A Good Leader is Hard to Find
• For Those Who’ve Come Across the Sea

Brendan Cowell is an Australian actor, writer and director. He is the recipient of the Patrick White Playwrights' Award, the Griffin Award and the Philip Parsons Young Playwright’s Award. Brendan played the popular character Tom in ‘Love My Way’ and wrote many episodes of the critically acclaimed television drama series. He has also played the lead role in feature films including the 2007 crime drama ‘Noise’, for which he was awarded a Film Critics Circle Award and nominated for an AFI Award.

• How Brendan Feels
• A Fine Bromance