When Cops are Criminals

Veronica Gorrie is a Gunai/Kurnai woman who lives and writes in Victoria. Her first book, Black and Blue, won the 2022 Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature and the 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing, as well as being shortlisted for the 2022 Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction and the 2022 ABIA Small Publishers’ Book of the Year. Her second book, When Cops Are Criminals, will be published in 2025.

Nayuka is a Gunai/Kurnai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta freelance and comedy television writer. Their writing centres on black, feminist and queer politics. Television credits include Black Comedy, Get Krack!n, The Heights, Thalu, Queerstralia and VR series Lustration. Nayuka’s essays can be found in The Guardian, Saturday paper, Vice, Junkee, Archer Magazine, The Lifted Brow and NITV among others. Nayuka contributed to the anthologies Growing AUp Queer in Australia and Animals Make us Human. They are a recipient of The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapterinitiative and a Creative Victoria Creators Fund research grant to support their writing.