Mireille Juchau is a novelist, essayist and teacher of literature. Her third novel, The World Without Us, won the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. Mireille spoke with us about bad advice, literary heroes and her years in smokey newsrooms

Liam Pieper discusses the power of smell and great works of literature that stink to high heaven.

Elizabeth Redman is a property reporter for the Australian. She chatted with us about deadlines, Hermione Granger and getting her start in student media.

Can we cheat death with words? Of course we can't – but we'll probably die trying, as David Astle attested at the Wheeler Centre Gala 2017.

Raised in Sydney and educated at Harvard, Amelia Lester is the former executive online editor at the New Yorker. She returned home last year to serve as the editor of Fairfax's Good Weekend magazine. As Amelia prepares to depart from that role, and for new adventures in Japan, she chatted with…

Rick Morton is the Melbourne-based social affairs writer at the Australian. We caught up with Rick to chat about Kurt Vonnegut, The Little Prince and hard-headedness versus hard-heartedness.