STEVEN CONTE (INTERSTATE) STEVEN CONTE lived and worked in Europe, and his first published short stories drew on his experiences as a traveller. He has lived in Sydney and Canberra and now resides in Melbourne. Bank teller, waiter, barman, cleaner, life model, public servant, taxi driver, receptionist, university tutor, editor and book reviewer are some of the jobs with which he has supported his writing. In 2008, his debut novel, The Zookeeper’s War, was awarded the inaugural Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction.
SIEW SIANG TAY (INTERSTATE) SIEW SIANG TAY is a writer from Adelaide. In 2007, she won a HarperCollins/Varuna Award for Manuscript Development which led to the publication of her first novel, Handpicked. siewsiangtay.com
MARGARET BARBALET (LOCAL ) Margaret Barbalet, a former diplomat, was most recently posted in the United Arab Emirates. She is the author of eight books.
ALICE NELSON (INTERSTATE) ALICE NELSON studied creative writing at the University of Western Australia and in the renowned Master’s program at the City University of New York in Manhattan. Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in journals such as Southerly and Westerly, and she has been awarded residential fellowships at the Dorset Writers’ Colony in Vermont and at Varuna, the Writer’s House in the Blue Mountains. Alice’s first novel, The Last Sky, was shortlisted for the prestigious The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 2004 and won the 2006 TAG Hungerford Award.
Her participation is supported by Fremantle Press.
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