Hot Desk Edition #2

Rebecca Giggs is a writer from Perth, Western Australia. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Science Writing, Granta, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, and Griffith Review. Rebecca's non-fiction focuses on how people connect with animals in a time of technological and ecological change. Her debut book is Fathoms: The World in the Whale.

Millie Baylis is a writer, editor and arts worker, living on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land. She is the current program coordinator for the Emerging Writers’ Festival. In 2019 she was a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk fellow and the managing editor of Visible Ink, and in 2020 she is a Moreland Writer in Residence. She writes essays, memoir and commentary, and her work has recently appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Overland and The Victorian Writer.

Bella Green is a stand-up comedian, writer and sex worker living in Melbourne, Australia. She got her start in comedy by telling jokes in brothels to anyone who'd listen. Now she tells jokes in some of the best comedy rooms in the country.

Her debut stand-up hour, Bella Green is Charging For It, answers all the questions you’d never thought to ask about the adult industry. It won Best Comedy at Adelaide Fringe 2020 and was nominated for Best Comedy at Melbourne Fringe 2018. Her memoir Happy Endings was released by Pan Macmillan in 2021. Her greatest accomplishment is remaining employable despite tattooing both of her hands.

Shannan Lim is a writer and clown based on Kulin country. He has lectured in film and digital media at the University of Western Australia, and taught physical theatre to adults and children at RMIT University and ArtPlay. His work has been performed at Griffin Theatre, the State Theatre Centre of WA and Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He received the Multicultural Arts Victoria Award at Melbourne Fringe, the New Director Award at Nice International Film Festival, and was City of Melbourne Artist-in-Residence at Boyd Studio.

Gareth Morgan is a poet from Melbourne. His work can be found around the place including Cordite and Otoliths. He is co-director of sick leave, a monthly reading series and occasional journal. 

A woman, a human, 
an insignificant speck in the history of all things, 
a grain of sand in an infinite universe of stars. 

I am a creator and explorer of all things 
beautiful. 

My bio is not my experiences, my accolades or awards, 
for I am much more than a name on a piece of fancy paper. 

I am my values, my beliefs, my mindsets,
my actions 
and 
my words.  

I believe in the goodness of humanity and 
our ability to heal each other,
human to human, 
hand in hand and heart to heart. 

We are all connected;
I am only me through you.

Writing is my way of
of being human
and so,
my words carry my heart and soul.

Sumudu Samarawickrama is from Werribee. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Overland, Meanjin and the Lifted Brow. She co-produced Sidekicked 2017 Melbourne Fringe Category Award Winner 'Best Words and Ideas'. She was a Witness Performance New Critic in 2018. She wants to use art to powerfully challenge the status quo of the structures that underpin our society. As part of FCAC’s West Writer's Group, she is interested in how anger can be a tool towards community. She is on a journey to decolonise her soul. 

Her first chapbook, Utter the Thing, is published by Vagabond Press as part of its deciBels 3 project. 

She is currently writing a collection of surrealistic sci-fi, and trying to write a play.

Yen-Rong Wong is an arts critic and award-winning writer working between Yugambeh and Jagera and Turrbal lands. She won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in 2022, and the Queensland Premier’s Young ...