CONTRIBUTORS

NICK FEIK

(“The coward’s pulpit”, p.8) is the editor of The Monthly.

ANDREW P STREET

(“The shed that contains the future”, p.10) is a Sydney-based author. His most recent book is The Long and Winding Way to the Top: Fifty (or so) Songs That Made Australia.

KIERAN PENDER

(“Racing against time ”, p.12) is a writer and lawyer. He is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University College of Law.

SCOTT LUDLAM

(“The end game”, p.14) is an ICAN ambassador and a former Australian Greens senator for Western Australia. His most recent book is Full Circle.

JAMES BRADLEY

(“A trip to the doctor”, p.24) is an author and a critic. His books include Wrack, The Resurrectionist, Clade and Ghost Species.

CORDELIA FINE

(“Agenda bender”, p.38) is an academic and writer. Her latest book, Testosterone Rex, won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.

ROBERT SKINNER

(“A fisherman’s lament”, p.46) was born and raised on the Adelaide Plains. He lives in Melbourne where he works in a bookshop and plays football at the lowest level.

SARAH HOLLAND-BATT

(“Time remaining”, p.50) is a poet. Her forthcoming book of essays, Fishing for Lightning: The Spark of Poetry, will be

out in October. HELEN ELLIOTT

(“Breathless spaces”, p.54) is a literary journalist and writer.

SHANE DANIELSEN

(“Forebodings and a funeral”, p.57) is a screenwriter and former artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

ANWEN CRAWFORD

(“Tip of the pops”, p.60) was The Monthly’s music critic from 2013 to 2021.

OSLO DAVIS

(“In light of recent events”, p.66) is an illustrator, artist and cartoonist.