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Anne Beate Hovind is a Norwegian urban developer, curator and cultural producer with an international profile in public art. With over 20 of experience across art, architecture and civic infrastructure, she initiates ambitious, long-term, site-specific projects linking storytelling, place and community. She produces and curates Future Library (2014–2114) by artist Katie Paterson, a 100-year artwork where each year one writer contributes a manuscript to remain unread until 2114. Writers include Margaret Atwood, Han Kang, Sjón, Elif Shafak, Karl Ove Knausgård, Valeria Luiselli, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tommy Orange and Amitav Ghosh.

Jonty Claypole MBE is CEO of Red Room Poetry, Australia’s largest poetry and creative learning non-profit organisation. He was formerly Director of Arts at the BBC and ran many literature programs and campaigns. He sat on the advisory board of the Booker Prize and was regularly in The Bookseller’s 100 Most Influential People in Publishing. He is the author of Words Fail Us: In defence of dysfluency. With Sophie Gee, he is host of the popular podcast The Secret Life of Books as well as the State Library’s book club.

Winnie Dunn is Tongan–Australian writer from Mount Druitt. She is the general manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and the editor of several acclaimed anthologies, including Brownface (Cordite, 2018), Sweatshop Women (Sweatshop, 2019), Straight-Up Islander (SBS, 2020) and Another Australia (Affirm Press, 2022). Winnie's debut novel, Dirt Poor Islanders (Hachette 2024) won the 2025 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists Award and the 2025 Creative Australia Kathleen Mitchell Award. Dirt Poor Islanders was also shortlisted for two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Suzie Miller is a contemporary international playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Her work has been produced around the world, winning multiple prestigious awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play 2023 for her smash hit one-woman play Prima Facie, which had a sold-out season on London's West End and Broadway New York, and was published as novel in 2024. Miller is currently developing major projects in theatre and screen and will publish a new novel later in the year.

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose work spans installation, digital, performance, film and print. Their writing has been widely published nationally and internationally and performed on stages around the world. Jazz has published two award-winning collections of poetry, how to make a basket and mark the dawn. The Frog's First Song is their first children's picture book.

Phillipa McGuinness is the editor of Openbook, the State Library of NSW’s quarterly magazine, and the Library’s Lead, Editorial and Publishing. A former non-fiction book publisher, she is the editor of Copyfight, and author of The Year Everything Changed — 2001 and Skin Deep. She is co-editor, with Richard Neville, of The Library That Made Me: 200 Years of the State Library of NSW.