Growing Up Disabled in Australia

Alistair Baldwin is a writer and comedian based in Naarm/Melbourne. He’s written for The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, Hard Quiz and Get Krack!n; developed a play—Lame—for MTC First Stage, was a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and has been published in ACMI Ideas, un. Magazine, Art + Australia, Archer and more.

Lucy Carpenter is an aspiring writer who has just completed her secondary education and hopes to continue her studies and work in the media industry.

Carly Findlay OAM is a writer, speaker and appearance activist. She is the author of memoir Say Hello and the editor of Growing Up Disabled in Australia. She has been published by the ABC and CNN, and in The Guardian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Vogue.

Jess McGuire is a DJ, writer, broadcaster, MC and trivia host based in Melbourne. She appears weekly on ABC Local Radio as a cultural commentator, and for many years she was the editor of pop culture website Defamer Australia. She was a former co-host on Triple R’s Breakfasters.