Sex, Love and Death

Eliza Clark received a grant from New Writing North's Young Writers' Talent Fund in 2018. Her debut novel, Boy Parts, was released by Influx Press in July 2020, and has since been Blackwell's Fiction Book of the Year. In 2022, Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women's Prize Futures Award for writers under 35. Her latest book is Penance.

Patrick deWitt is the author of The Sisters Brothers, which won the Governor General’s Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and was adapted for a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix and Riz Ahmed. He also is the author of Ablutions, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice, Undermajordomo Minor, and French Exit, which was adapted for a film starring Michelle Pfeiffer and shortlisted for the Giller Prize. His latest book is The Librarianist. 

Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Lethem has published his stories and essays in the New Yorker, Harper‘s, Rolling Stone, Esquire and the New York Times, among others. 

Dr Molly Murn is a South Australian author and poet, and manager of Matilda Bookshop. She holds a Bachelor of Dance, a Masters of Creative Arts, and a PhD in Creative Writing. Heart of the Grass Tree is her first novel. Murn’s poetry has been published in various anthologies including Overland, Transnational Literature, Social Alternatives, and Friendly Street.