Norman Bilbrough has published short stories widely for twenty years. He has contributed to the NZ Listener and the School Journal as well as other publications and winning the Sunday Star Times competition twice, in 1995 and 2000. Norman has published two collections of stories, Man with Two Arms (1991) and Desert Shorts (1999), as well as a book of stories for children, Dog Breath and other stories (1999) and a young adult novel The Birdman Hunts Alone (1994) which was a finalist in the AIM Book Awards.

Caren Wilton writes fiction and travel journalism. Her stories and poems have appeared in the NZ Listener, Sport, Landfall, Takahe, Printout, and the School Journal. She has also had a poem anthologised in Mutes & Earthquakes (1997) and her stories have been broadcast on National Radio. Wilton's first collection of short stories, The Heart Sutra, was published in 2003.

William Brandt is an actor, playwright and fiction writer. His short fiction has been published in The Picnic Virgin, New Writers chosen by Emily Perkins (1999) and Boy's Own Stories, Short Stories by New Zealand Men, edited by Graeme Lay (2000). His first collection of short stories, Alpha Male (1999) won the Best First Book of Fiction award at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and his novel The Book of the Film of the Story of My Life (2002) was longlisted for the Deutz Medal for Fiction for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2003. In 2003, William Brandt was shortlisted for the prestigious $60,000 Prize in Modern Letters.