We pay homage to Australia’s original storytellers who remind us that storytelling is about deep listening. We recognise Australia’s First Nations Peoples for their ongoing connection to storytelling, country, culture, and community. We also respectfully acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we’re all situated and recognise that it was never ceded.  

Heidi Scheffers

Heidi Scheffers is a Creative Writing/Law student at Swinburne University. By nature of this combination, words are her everything: work, play, power, freedom and wonder. She likes people too – last year she enjoyed hosting Spoken Word at the Hammer & Swine and volunteering at the Australian Short Story Festival, and she’s always hyping her writerly friends’ latest drafts to them.

You can find her on Instagram @heidi.scheffers. There, she hopes to connect with writers and illustrators and maybe even scheme some creative projects together, if they are so daring.