Brooke Maddison is a writer and editor living on unceded Turrbal and Yuggera Country. Her award-winning writing has appeared in Griffith Review, The Guardian and Kill Your Darlings, among others. She is the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter fellowship, and in 2023 she was one of the winners of the Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition. Her fiction manuscript, Driftwood, is currently shortlisted for the 2026 Penguin Literary Prize.

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