Writing Home: Writers on Place

Jannali Jones is a Krowathunkoolong woman of the Gunai nation. She holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney. Jannali was the winner of the 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship and an inaugural recipient of Magabala's Australian Indigenous Creator Scholarship. 

Jennifer Mills is an author, editor and critic based on Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide). Her latest novel, The Airways (2021), was longlisted for the Miles Franklin award and shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Horror. Dyschronia (2018) was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, Aurealis (for Science Fiction), and Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. As well as being one of our most celebrated fiction writers, Mills is a widely published essayist, an advocate for the rights of writers and artists, a MEAA freelance delegate and a current Director of the Australian Society of Authors. 

Jessica White is the author of A Curious Intimacy and Entitlement. Her hybrid memoir, Hearing Maud, won the Michael Crouch Award and was shortlisted for four national awards. Jessica has published short fiction, poetry, and essays, and has won funding and residencies. She is also co-founder and co-editor of Science Write Now, a literary magazine of creative writing inspired by science. Jessica’s essay collection, Silence is my Habitat: Ecobiographical Essays will be published by Upswell in 2025.