Introducing The Judges
Kate Kruimink
Kate Kruimink is a writer and fiction editor for Island magazine from southern Lutruwita. Her first novel, A Treacherous Country, won the 2020 Australian/Vogel's Prize, was shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Award for Literature and longlisted for the 2021 Sir Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in the UK. She was one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists of 2021. Her second novel, Heartsease, will be released mid-2024 with Picador (Australia and NZ).
Kate Liston-Mills
Kate Liston-Mills is an Australian author, tutor and mother. Inspired by her home town, Pambula, on Yuin land on the far south coast of New South Wales, Kate writes about the people living there and their experiences of tragedy and triumph in everyday life.