Tom takes a step back for a conversation that veers into a discussion about representation and diversity in the writing, editing, and publishing industry - featuring a powerhouse of guests, including Kirli Saunders, Alice Grundy, Jessie Tu, and Emily Stewart. || Visit the Creative Dialogues page on the Wollongong City Council website for a list of books mentioned in this podcast, and recommended by the guests. || Book recommendations from panellists: Jessie Tu recommends: Revenge - S.L Lim, The Astonishing Colour of After - Emily X.R Pan, Cleanness - Garth Greenwell, Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-Joo, Hot Little Hands Abigail Ulman || Alice Grundy recommends: The Swan Book - Alexis Wright, Living on Stolen Land - Ambelin Kwaymullina, Blakwork - Alison Whittaker, Dhuuluu-Yala: To Talk Straight - Anita Heiss, Tracking Our Country in Settler Literature - Jeanine Leane || Kirli Saunders recommends: The White Girl - Tony Birch, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World - Tyson Yunkaporta,The Yield - Tara June Winch,Throat - Ellen van Neerven, Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today (UQP) - Edited by Alison Whittaker, Guwayu, for All Times: A Collection of First Nations Poems - Edited by Jeanine Leane, Aunty Kerry Reed, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Bruce Pascoe's works || Emily Stewart recommends: Minor Detail - Adania Shibli (trans. Elisabeth Jaquette), The Cherry Picker's Daughter Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals - Saidiya Hartman