Meet the writers who listen and write the stories you want to read.

Elodie writes to connect people and provoke thought, amplifying voices often unheard. Bylines: Unseen Journal. Instagram: @elodiericaud

Jared writes the stories that make you stop scrolling. Bylines: Vertigo Magazine

Kayla is a professional fangirl who moonlights as a music journalist so she can justify how she spends her time and money. Bylines: Wall of Sound, Scenstr. Instagram: @kaylazomboid

Bianka writes about women, bad decisions, and knowing better. Substack: Bad Bitch Hotline. Instagram: @biankaismailovski

Quincy writes to explore culture and society, often using food as the lens. She also runs @gruelclub. Bylines: The Age, Broadsheet, Time Out. Instagram: @quincepaste_

Alina writes to show how change affects people’s livelihoods. Bylines: MOJO News

Angel writes from the space between cultures so anyone who’s felt out of place can feel at home. Bylines: Esperanto Magazine. Instagram: @angel.tully

Arielle writes because she literally can’t shut up. Bylines: VICE, SBS News. Instagram: @rari.ferrarri

Sidra tells people-first stories to challenge the dominant narrative. Bylines: 2MFM, AMUST. Instagram: @sidra.ghanawi

Jewel Nichols writes because she’s been told some things shouldn’t be said out loud, so she’ll publish it permanently on the internet instead. Bylines: VICE, Synchron Magazine. Instagram: @jewelnicholss

Will writes to unpack himself and his world, one extended metaphor at a time. Bylines: PULP Magazine

Dante writes realist fiction to hold a mirror up to the exploitative and corrupt side of contemporary culture. Instagram: @thebogfather_

Alex writes and shoots the strange, funny edges of public life. She grew up in Minneapolis, where the Black Lives Matter movement pulled her into journalism. Bylines: Crikey, Star Observer, The Age, The Guardian. Instagram: @zucco.alex

Ben writes about things to understand them: comedy, subculture and his own mistakes. He’s a stand-up comedian, writer and ageing punk idealist who performs around Australia and co-hosts Oblivious Maximus, a show about heavy music. Instagram: @searlo_

Graham, better known as Carmouflage Rose, writes from a career that has taken him from triple j Unearthed to gold records, major-label deals and festival stages across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Europe.

Scott writes about the systems that make life harder than it needs to be, and the people pushing back. There’s a little ego involved too. Bylines: Junkee Media, Overland. Bluesky: @Jstscottthings

Liam writes to make psychoactive plants, fungi and their chemistry easier to understand. Author of Psychoactive Plants & Fungi. Founder of The Mescaline Garden. Researcher at NICM Health Research Institute.

Patrick writes half-drunk in a vintage YSL blazer and tracksuit pants, covering food, wine, fashion and subculture. Bylines: MORE PLATES, to Be, Harrolds. Instagram: @houseoflumes

Mayatu writes to explore subcultures and shine a light on communities that deserve a platform. Bylines: Frocket Magazine, Rosario Journal, Somersault Magazine. Instagram: @mayatunova, @nova.archives_

Freya writes about music, subcultures and the emotional lives of sound. Bylines: r00ts Australia. Co-host of The Hip Hop Show on SYN. Instagram: @freyad4vis

Nathan writes because investigating the mundane is where the most honest stories tend to live. Bylines: The Betoota Advocate. Instagram: @monkeyboy.sydney

Kimia writes to tell the small stories that fall between the cracks. Bylines: Vertigo Magazine. Instagram:
 @kimia_nojoumian

Krishan writes with the belief that stories can create change. Bylines: Sound of Life, Post-Trash. Instagram: @krishan.meepe

Jack writes to show how policy and power shape daily life, and what that means for people beyond the headlines. Bylines: VICE, Rolling Stone, SBS. Instagram: @byjackrevell

Ajok writes to make young people feel seen. Bylines: ABC News. Instagram: @ajoktheipdor