Leaps of Faith

Ceridwen Dovey is an Australian fiction writer, creative non-fiction writer, science writer and filmmaker based in Sydney. She went to Harvard University on scholarship as an undergraduate and did her postgraduate studies in social anthropology at New York University. Her debut novel, Blood Kin, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award. Her most recent book of stories is Only the Astronauts. 

Zeynab Gamieldien is the inaugural winner of the 2022 Westwords/Ultimo Prize. Her work has been shortlisted for the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction and featured in publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald’s ‘Daily Life’ section and the Australian Muslim Times. The Scope of Permissibility, a coming-of-age story, is her first novel. 

Carody Culver is the editor of Griffith Review. She was a contributing editor for Peppermint magazine and has written for publications including Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow and Books+Publishing. Her chapbook The Morgue I Think the Deader It Gets was published by Cordite in 2022, and she has been a featured Australian poet on the Best American Poetry blog.