The In-Between

Christos Tsiolkas is a playwright, essayist, screenwriter and novelist whose award-winning works have been adapted into feature films and television series. His bestselling fourth novel, The Slap, won Overall Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009 and the Australian Literary Society Gold. It was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and named Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards. In 2021, he won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. 

Charlotte Wood is the author of 10 books - seven novels and three non-fiction works. She has won the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award, among others, and her features and essays have appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly, Saturday Paper and others. Her latest novel is Stone Yard Devotional.