Nightingale

Laura is the author of Trick of the Light and Ordinary Matter, which won the 2021 Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection. Laura’s short fiction and essays have been published in Meanjin, Overland, The Saturday Paper, Island, Australian Financial Review, The Big Issue Fiction Edition and Griffith Review. She has won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature, the Margaret River Short Story Competition, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and the Fair Australia Prize for Fiction. Laura has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies from QUT. She lives in Brisbane. In 2021, Laura was the inaugural Writer in Residence at the Centre for Critical and Creative Writing at UQ. In 2022, Ordinary Matter was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award.

Charlotte Strevens trained at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. Charlotte has narrated over 400 audio book titles working with most of the well-known audiobook publishers in the UK, including Audible, HarperCollins, ISIS, Macmillan, Orion, Strathmore, WFHowes and many more. From fiction and biographies to educational and documentary. Multi-character audio books and straight narration. Radio Drama with the BBC and BBC Wales, Big Finish, Dr Who, BBC World Service ELF and the Gaming world.

Christopher Bonwell is an actor who’s worked in films, plays in the West End and around the UK, video games and audiobooks. Theatre credits includes The Woman in Black, In Praise of Love, The Entertainer, Bad Jews, Relatively Speaking, Wind in the Willows and She Stoops to Conquer. His audiobook narrations include Jo Spain's The Confession, The Daniel Pitt Mysteries by Anne Perry and Laura Elvery's Nightingale.