The Autistic Experience and the Power of Storytelling

Clem Bastow is a screenwriter and researcher from Naarm/Melbourne. Clem works as a screenwriter, story consultant and neurodiversity consultant for film and TV, most recently for Spooky Files (ABC/BBC). Clem’s debut non-fiction book, Late Bloomer, was published in July 2021, and they are currently co-editing a collection of autistic women and gender-diverse people’s life writing for UQP with Jo Case. Clem lives and works on Wurundjeri land with their dog, Milly. 

Jo Case is a writer, editor and critic who lives in Adelaide. She is deputy editor, Books & Ideas at The Conversation and has worked in various roles in books and publishing, including as a publisher, festival programmer and literary editor. She is co-editor, with Clem Bastow, of Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Non-Fiction by Autistic Writers (UQP, 2025). Her memoir of autistic motherhood is Boomer and Me (Hardie Grant, 2013).