Penmanship

Katharine Murphy is political editor of Guardian Australia.

Having spent more than two decades as a member of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery, Katharine has earned a reputation as one of the …

Nick Feik is the editor of The Monthly.

Since its inception in 2005, The Monthly has been one of the few Australian publications to strongly invest in longform journalism. Each month, the magazine pu…

Gideon Haigh is an author and freelance journalist.

Since he began as a cadet journalist at The Age in 1984, fresh out of high school, Gideon's main subject areas in journalism have been in sport and…

Sarah Elks is Queensland political reporter at The Australian.

During her decade of writing for the national newspaper, Sarah has reported on many of the biggest news stories that have taken place in…

Marcus Teague is an editor, freelance writer, songwriter and musician.

His contribution to Australian music journalism during the last decade has been significant. After co-founding a magazine and we…

Richard Guilliatt is an author and staff writer at The Weekend Australian Magazine.

When it comes to the art of writing magazine feature stories, Richard is among Australia's masters of the form. He …

John Clarke was a freelance writer, performer and author.

John died suddenly on Sunday, 9 April 2017, aged 68. I had spoken to him a few days beforehand, and we had made plans to record a conversatio…

Amelia Lester is the editor of Good Weekend.

For the first episode of 2017, I could think of few more qualified guests than Amelia Lester. Penmanship is all about exploring the gritty details of how …

Andrew Stafford is an author and freelance journalist.

In 2004, UQP published his landmark book, Pig City: From The Saints To Savage Garden, which covered three decades of Queensland's musical and po…

Holly Throsby is a songwriter, musician and author.

As an accomplished singer and songwriter, Holly has been performing since 2004, and has released five albums. In 2010, she joined forces with her f…

Liam Pieper is an author and freelance journalist. 

Since the publication of his first book in 2014, a memoir named The Feel-Good Hit of the Year, he has quickly followed it up with two more. Last ye…

Richard Fidler is an author and host of Conversations.

Since 2005, he has hosted a national radio program that sees him interviewing a wide range of guests, for around an hour at a time. Named Conver…

Kate Hennessy is a freelance writer and editor.

I first read Kate's work in about 2009, when we were both contributors to the Australian music website Mess+Noise, where she was a critic and feature w…

Erik Jensen is an author and founding editor of The Saturday Paper.

At the age of 15, he fronted up to the office of a Sydney street press and became a music critic and journalist, then received a jo…

Tim Levinson is a songwriter and musician.

Within the Australian hip-hop scene, he's better known by his stage name, Urthboy, under which he performs as a solo artist and as a member of the eight-pie…

Cory Taylor is an author and screenwriter.

In May 2016, she published a book named Dying: A Memoir. As the title suggests, it will her last public writing, for Cory is dying of melanoma-related brain…

Sarah Ferguson is a journalist and author.

Last year, ABC television screened her three-part documentary series The Killing Season, which examined the forces that shaped the Australian Labor Party du…

Luke Williams is an author and freelance journalist.

I first became aware of his writing when The Saturday Paper published his feature story, 'Life As A Crystal Meth Addict', in August 2014. In that …

Benjamin Law is an author, freelance journalist, columnist and screenwriter.

Since I first ventured into full-time freelance journalism in 2009, he's been someone that I've greatly admired, not only …

Anne Summers is an author, journalist, editor, publisher and columnist.

The fact that I need to use five adjectives to accurately describe her role in Australian writing culture speaks volumes about …