The Story of a Girl-Pope

Emily Maguire is the author of seven novels, including An Isolated Incident, shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2017; Love Objects, shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards Literary Fiction Book of the Year in 2022; and, most recently, Rapture. She has also written three non-fiction books, and her articles and essays on sex, feminism and culture have been published widely. 

Beejay Silcox is an Australian writer and critic, and the Artistic Director of Canberra Writers Festival. Beejay’s literary criticism and cultural commentary regularly appears in national arts publications and is increasingly finding an international audience, including in the Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. Her award-winning short fiction has been published at home (including in Meanjin, Westerly and ABR) and abroad, and has also been anthologised.