Lunchtime Literature: Writing With Relationships

Victoria Hannan is a writer and photographer living in Melbourne. Kokomo, her first novel, was the winner of the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.

Laura McPhee-Browne is a writer, social worker, and counsellor living in Melbourne, on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her debut novel, CHERRY BEACH, was published by Text Publishing in February 2020, and was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing as part of the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Aisling Smith is a writer, editor and academic. She was the winner of the 2020 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers and won third place for the St Kilda Historical Society Short Story Competition. She completed a PhD in Literary Studies at Monash University in 2019, researching the fiction of David Foster Wallace through the lens of affect theory. She currently works at Collarts as a curriculum writer.