Tessa Campisi | Fellow

Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Tessa is curious about how humans relate to place, and what happens to this relationship in times of upheaval. 

With a background in geography, her storytelling is informed by personal experience of environmental protest and disaster recovery. Once a month she presents Out of the Blue on 3CR Community Radio, a show about our coasts and oceans.

Liz Keen | Mentor

Liz Keen is a multi award winning journalist and producer with 20 years’ experience in audio and narrative storytelling. She has created multiple highly acclaimed podcasts including Still Jill, We Are Lonely and After the Disaster.

She is currently working with the Global Institute of Women’s Leadership on Julia Gillard’s ‘A Podcast of One’s Own’ and with SBS on an upcoming documentary podcast. She has also been the Digital Producer at Four Corners, Content Director at ABC Radio and ABC Open Producer for the Mid North Coast of NSW.

Anna Outridge | Fellow

Anna is an illustrator, animator, filmmaker, and educator. Her films have screened at several international film festivals including Animation Block Party, FliCKERFEST, and New York Documentary Film Festival, where she won Best Documentary Short.

A big reader of graphic novels, Anna also makes comics under the pseudonym of her reformed street cat Galaxy Goggins.

Jon Tjhia | Mentor

Jon Tjhia is an artist, writer and editor working through radio and podcast, literature, photomedia, music and publishing, as well as community organising and access.

A settler born and living on Wurundjeri biik, his works include Access Lab & Library, the Manus Recording Project Collective and Paper Radio. Jon’s work examines experiences of time, social position, language and the complex micro-expertise we derive from our living.

Shareeka Helaluddin | Fellow

Shareeka Helaluddin is an experimental artist, community radio broadcaster and facilitator interested in the sonic, written word and collective organising.

She considers sound as a material, a portal of community connection, and a divine passage; using soundscapes as an invitation to deeply listen, seek pause outside of capitalist time and to find connection.

Farz Edraki | Mentor

Farz Edraki is an Iranian-Australian writer, editor and broadcaster. She is the host of the Queer Renegades podcast (SBS) and Days Like These (ABC), named Best Entertainment podcast at the 2023 Australian Podcast Awards. Her writing has been published in The Age, Debris Magazine, and the Sydney Review of Books.

She’s worked as a commissioning digital editor and TV producer at the ABC, co-hosted an independent election podcast for teens, and has appeared at the Sydney Writers’ Festival and BBC Radio 3’s Contains Strong Language Festival. She’s a current PhD candidate in testimonial technique and fiction at Macquarie University.

Ramon Briant | Fellow

Ramon Briant is a Sydney based audio creator and composer.

With a tertiary background in music and sound design, he has been working as an audio technician and sound designer in the fields of live sound and podcasting. He also plays and composes music, having released music under his own name and in collaborative projects since 2020, and has written soundtracks for several short films.

More recently, Ramon has been excited to delve into the soundworlds and story possibilities of audio fiction.

Ian Walker | Mentor

Ian Walker is one of Australia’s most experienced podcast creators and showrunners.

He’s helped birth dozens of audience-winning shows including Short & Curly, Tall Tales & True, The Real Thing, Burn Your Passport, Little Tiny and The Eleventh. Ian led the teams behind five seasons of Unravel True Crime and the short true story showcase Days Like These.

In recent years, he’s turned his hand to developing fiction projects, first for ABC then LiSTNR. His debut audio drama series, THE NEXT 5 MINUTES, was nominated for an Australian Podcast Award. He’s currently undertaking a PhD devoted to audio fiction.