J.P. Pomare is an award winning writer who has had work published in journals including Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Takahe and Mascara Literary Review. He has hosted the On Writing podcast since 2015 featuring bestselling authors from around the globe. He was born in New Zealand and resides in Melbourne. Call Me Evie is his first novel. Matt Neal is a local journalist who is now working with the ABC, and is a published author himself. His book, 'Bay of Martyrs', co-written with Tony Black, is a crime novel set in the southwest.