The Visible Ink Team

Amanda Holder is an editor and former criminal intelligence analyst who loves grappling with grammar conundrums but dislikes the Oxford comma. Currently studying professional writing and editing at RMIT, Amanda plans to establish a freelance editing business in the Macedon Ranges. She is a sucker for British comedy and a Devonshire cream tea. 

Katya Dugec is a writer, editor and artist. Her microfiction has been published in The Victorian Writer. She is currently working on her first manuscript, a high fantasy novel exploring regret, and what it means to be redeemed, and is co-writing a YA urban fantasy novel that mixes east and west European mythology. 

Jihan is an emerging writer and editor based on Wurundjeri country, with a professional background in legal policy and human rights. Her love of words has led her to study writing and editing at RMIT. She can often be found wandering in a blissful daze around her local op shops.  

Amber is a neurodivergent editor and writer based in Adelaide. She holds a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Publishing & Writing) from Flinders University and is studying writing and editing at RMIT. In 2023, she interned at MidnightSun Publishing and was later contracted as a copyeditor in 2024. You can find out more about Amber and her work here.

Madeline McFarlane is a writer, bookseller and editor living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Specialising in poetry and essays, she tends to write about queerness, culture, and the small everyday crevices between life and death. In her spare time, she runs her own blog, Growing Pains, where she writes about anything and everything. If she’s not writing, you’ll probably find her drinking coffee and collaging with her cat, Selene. 

More of her work is best found on Substack or Instagram.

Lydia Schofield (she/they) is a writer, artist, and library nerd from Naarm. Their work has appeared in Catalyst, WhyNot, Books+Publishing and Grattan Street Press. You can find her Instagram @scho.lydia or hear her on her bookish podcast, The Shortlist.

Otto Riddell (he/she) is a student studying the Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing, having previously completed the Certificate IV. He also likes dogs, video games, and a good cup of tea. 

Talisha Ohanessian holds a Master of Public Policy and works in social policy. Her literary interests include reading literary fiction, editing fiction and creative nonfiction, and writing about why she can’t stop reading Fourth Wing. 

Christine Bayley is an editor working in Naarm Melbourne. Her biological sciences background has given her a keen eye for detail and a passion for storytelling. Whether you’re a human or a protozoan, she believes that everyone has a tale to tell, and wants to help you tell it.

Melissa Reed (@reed__writes) is one of Melbourne's emerging writers and editors. She has a wealth of experience editing her peers’ work; she worked on a photobook, produced and published by a fellow RMIT student, as developmental editor, copyeditor and proofreader. Her nonfiction writing has been published in the CULTURS online magazine.

Rowan Williams lives in Melbourne/Naarm. He is studying professional writing and editing at RMIT. Rowan was an editor of the 2023 anthology What You Become, and his work was highly commended in the 2020 Darebin Mayor’s Writing Awards. You can find him on Instagram at @rowilliams_ 

Matt Freeman is a writer whose work has appeared in Two Wolves Digest and Aurealis. His work has also been commended by the Katherine Susannah Prichard Foundation and the Fellowship of Australian Writers. He is currently writing a collection of horror stories featuring iconic literary and cinematic monsters in contemporary Australian settings.

Edwina Berry is a writer and aspiring editor based in Naarm (Melbourne). She is currently studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. With a science and music background, Edwina enjoys finding ways to make complex information more accessible to the community.

Mason Henshall is a Professional Writing and Editing student at RMIT with a fondness for all that’s uncomfortable and unearthly. When he’s not asleep with his cats, you may find him suspended from an aerial rig or adventuring into the unknown.

Maz is a creative nonfiction writer based in Naarm (Melbourne). She is studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. She often wonders why she doesn't carry spare ink cartridges for her pen wherever she goes. 

Sara Rose Oliver is an emerging writer from Melbourne, Australia who specialises in conceptualising abstract ideas through creative mediums such as music, writing and painting. She is studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT and is the communications lead at Visible Ink.

Chloe Wilkins is freelance writer with a passion for vivid storytelling. In her spare time, Chloe enjoys journaling in the sunshine, indulging in a fantasy novel and pitching a tent in a beautiful national park with friends and family.  

Shae Lynn is a communications enthusiast with a flair for marketing and graphic design. Her lifestyle articles have been featured in the digital magazine HYPE, and her expertise in visual merchandising supports her freelance work in graphic design and content creation.  

Claire is a singer-songwriter, actor and preschool music teacher. Her music has been used in documentaries, films, and theatre. She grew up in Montreal and is now raising a family in Melbourne. She writes in the slivers.  

Jade Nie is a writer and aspiring editor based in Naarm. She currently studies writing and editing at RMIT and enjoys creative fiction and non-fiction pieces. If she isn’t reading, she is usually hunting for new food spots or experimenting new recipes in the kitchen. You can find her on Instagram @dawnslog where she is currently working on her new blog on books, writing, cooking and more.  

Wen Yee Ang is a Malaysian-Chinese writer, designer and programmer who’s currently studying writing and editing at RMIT. Her fiction pieces have been published in Antithesis, Farrago Magazine, Frazzle and Judy’s Punch, and she’s currently working on a YA urban fantasy novel. Her two greatest enemies are procrastination and herself. You can find her on Instagram at @wenyee_ang_writes.

Amelie is an artist/designer located in Naarm. Through her RMIT studies in Fine Art, her work explores identity in modern contexts, community, activism and intersectionality, through ecological frameworks. Amelie’s art has been a part of a number of shows, which can be seen on their Instagram @swayingelegantly.

Yannick is an award-winning writer and creative writing teacher. He's written three novels (four if you count the terrible one he wrote as a teenager, a book that exists only on a floppy disk somewhere).

As a writer, he likes telling stories about relationships, not just romantic ones, but also exploring people’s relationships with their family, friends, their communities and their environment.

His debut novel, The Current, was commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, while his second novel, White Foam, was shortlisted for Hachette Publishing’s Richell Prize and highly commended for the Jim Hamilton Award. His latest novel, The Marriage Gap Year, is a feel-good romantic comedy and launched in September 2024.

Louisa Syme is an editor and educator, based in Naarm/Melbourne. She teaches in RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing associate degree and coordinates the editing courses. She has worked both inhouse and freelance as an editor and for almost a decade facilitated creative-writing workshops for writers experiencing psychosocial disability. She previously worked as a Legal Aid lawyer and retains a keen interest in social justice, though these days her focus is on the liberatory potential of education.

Dzintra is a writer, designer, digital content specialist and award-winning entrepreneur based in the Dandenong Ranges. Dzintra has worked on digital learning projects for some of Australia's biggest companies including Mecca Cosmetics, Coles, Australia Post and for the Parliament of Victoria and has been teaching in the PWE at RMIT for the last seven years. More recently, Dzintra started her own ecommerce business Cloth & Crown, using her social media savviness to build a large online following, leading to her winning bronze for Retail Excellence and Sustainability at the 2020 Ausmumpreneur Awards.

Sarah Vincent graduated from RMIT’s Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing in 2016. Her memoir Death By Dim Sim was published by Penguin Random House in 2017 and by Audible in 2018. She has been published in The Shovel, The Victorian Writer, Visible Ink, Spineless Wonders’ Out of Place Anthology, and Gargouille Journal. Her writing has been shortlisted in the Joanne Burns Award, the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize and The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Nonfiction. Sarah worked at Writers Victoria for five years and has also worked as a freelance copywriter and in communications roles in not-for-profits and government. She has taught in RMIT's Professional Writing and Editing programs since 2018 and became the Program Coordinator in 2021.