Unearthed Fiction Team

Editor

Email: vicky.smith@www.theaustraliatimes.com.au

Is small and nondescript. She comes from Melbourne but is currently pretending to be an English teacher in Hamburg, Germany. She is interested in literature, linguistics, languages and also some other things that don’t begin with L. She would like to tell you that she is a dog person that does carpentry and drinks energy drinks, but really she’s a big old tea-drinking, scarf-knitting, cat person cliché. Send her your experimental fiction, please.

Deputy Editor

Email: meg.hellyer@www.theaustraliatimes.com.au

is a freelance writer and editor living in Melbourne. She has sub-edited for a range of publications that include artsHub, Ferntree Gully News, and The Pun, and is also the author of several short stories. Growing up surrounded by books, Meg has always had a love of literature. When she is not editing for The Australia Times, she often finds herself writing about the people she sees on trains.

Sub Editor

Email: alexia.derbas@www.theaustraliatimes.com.au

Alexia Derbas studied Writing and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. She writes all sorts of things and doesn't do much else, though a great deal of her time is spent bush walking. This occurs under the guise of scouting out perfect writing locations. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming in various publications including Seizure, Voiceworks and the Spineless Wonders Writing to the Edge anthology. She tweets with regret @lexderbas

Sub Editor

Email: abby.corson@www.theaustraliatimes.com.au

Originally from the UK, Abby Corson’s passion for editing and writing developed while she was at university, where she contributed and edited for the university newspaper, Leeds Student. During this time she and a friend began their own small academic editing business to help students with their essays. This gave her a great knowledge platform to start her own editing side business upon moving permanently to Melbourne.

Sub Editor

Email: tristyn.harrison@www.theaustraliatimes.com.au

Tristyn Harrison is a freelance writer and amateur blogger with an interest in all things out of the ordinary. She writes for herself first, shaping the raw mass of creation and inspiration into stories that reach in and pluck the heart-strings. She shares her ideas and her work with her writing groups, both online at The Writer’s Café, and at the NSW Writer’s Centre in Sydney, and alternates between working on her first novel, perfecting her craft, and revisiting the work of professional authors who have shaped her life’s journey.

Contributor

Is a writer, poet and philosopher. The biggest influences on his writing are dreams, Kafka, Borges and Dali. His stories, poems and non-fiction articles have been published in various e-zines and print publications. Boris has appeared a number of times on the radio, including Australian national radio, performing his poems and stories and discussing the meaning of his work He says: "Writing for me is a spiritual activity of the highest degree. Writing gives me the conduit to a world that is unreachable by any other means, a world that is populated by Eternal Truths, Ineffable Questions and Infinite Beauty. It is my hope that these stories of mine will allow the reader to also catch a glimpse of this universe."

Contributor

Is a 16 year old romance writer who lives on the Central Coast NSW. Other interests include the dramatic arts, science fiction and music.

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Is a freelance journalist and producer from Melbourne. He is an advocate of people with depression and his writing reflects this frequently. He also has a strange love for chocolate sultanas.

Contributor

Is a contributor for The Australia Times. She has also written for various other TAT magazines.

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Barnaby Wilde is the pen name of Tim Fisher. Tim was born in 1947 in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, but grew up and was educated in the West Country. He graduated with a Physics degree in 1969 and worked in manufacturing and Quality Control for a multinational photographic company for 30 years before taking an early retirement to pursue other interests. He is the published author of seven volumes of Quirky Verse, five volumes of Short Stories, and a series of Detective Stories. He has two grown up children and currently lives happily in Devon.

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is a young aspiring journalist studying her degree at Deakin University, Melbourne. With a keen interest in literature developed early in her childhood, she constantly strives to be the best she can, settling for nothing less. During her previous studies of Professional Writing and Editing at Holmesglen TAFE she refined her talents as a writer of short stories and feature articles. Elizabeth is an emerging journalist reporter and short story writer for The Australia Times.

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A 21 year old Brisbanite who dreams of being a travel writer and fiction author. She loves Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire and anything by Bryce Courtenay or Dan Brown. Grace has always had a love of reading and writing and is focusing on short stories at the moment to improve her skill. She loves her three dogs, her Mimco bags and her tablet – keeping all her books in a handy little package. One day Grace will be a well-known writer, but for now, she is happy playing around with words for your benefit.

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A writer and photographer. Inspired by the likes of Hemmingway, Byron and Edgar Allen Poe, Andrew also lists Macbeth as one of his favourite stories. He also loves taking black and white photographs, particularly of abandoned buildings and wastelands. 'It shows me how fleeting life is and how we should treasure it,' he says.