Intimate Accounts

Vicki Hastrich is the Sydney-based writer of two acclaimed novels: Swimming with the Jellyfish and The Great Arch.  Her new book is the essay collection, Night Fishing: Stingrays, Goya and the singular life.

Donna Ward is the publisher at Inkerman & Blunt. She founded indigo, the journal of Western Australian creative writing and her prose can be found in respected journals and anthologies nationally, internationally and online. She has past lives as a psychotherapist and as a social worker and has previously worked in her own private practice, in welfare management and social policy development. She, I Dare Not Name: A Spinster's Meditations on Life, is Donna's first book.

Charlotte Wood is the author of six novels and two books of non-fiction. Her bestselling novel, The Natural Way of Things, won the 2016 Stella Prize, the Indie Book of the Year and Indie Book Award for Fiction, was joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, and was published throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and North America. She has been twice shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, as well as many others for this and previous works. Her latest novel is The Weekend.