Meet the Toolkits: Digital Storytelling 2024 participants
Say hello to the young writers who will be taking part in this season of Toolkits: Digital Storytelling! Facilitated this year by Aries Gacutan, this 12-week program is designed to combine theoretical approaches, practical exercises, group workshopping, and one-on-one mentorship to guide young writers to experiment and develop their work in a range of digital forms.
These workshops offer a unique developmental opportunity for participants to work one-on-one with the facilitar, hear from industry guests, and forge creative community.
Aaron Chast (they/he)
Aaron Chast is the founder of ARC.O.FACT, an independent individually operated brand that publishes and creates different media projects, many of which are still in development. Until this brand has been officially launched with it's first media project - a novel - you can see and access sketches, art, and shorter interactive/traditional media projects under the subdivisions IDIOTSCANVAS and IDIOTSBLOCK at Cara and Itch.io respectively.
https://idiotsblock.itch.io/
Boo Fraser (she/her)
Boo Fraser is an artist and writer living in Naarm.
@b0o__fraser
Bronte Lemaire (any pronouns)
Bronte is a creative writing honours student doing her thesis on violent love in queer writing. Bronte is very sleepy. Bronte would like a nap.
@bronte_lemaire
Dorian Zikic (they/he)
Dorian Zikic/Sophia Zikic is a multidisciplinary artist and writer born in Aoteroa, but raised and based in Naarm. As a writer and performer, he has written for and worked at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and Fringe. He is particularly interested in science fiction, language and Queer art, and has been published in Lot's Wife, Farrago and The Dialog. He is currently studying his Master's of Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Melbourne.
@dorianzikic
@sophia.zik
Emma Lazzeri (she/they)
Emma Lazzeri is an Italian-Australian storyboard artist and animation lover, born and raised in Florence, Italy.
Finnley Greet (they/he)
Finnley Greet is a queer, disabled writer with a love for literary form and rhythm. In 2023, he was one of the lead editors of the University of Melbourne’s CAMP Magazine, and they have written and delivered multiple educational training programs with the Youth Disability Advocacy Service of Victoria. When they aren’t writing, they are painting, or making music, or learning how to make video games.
Li Tan (she/they)
Li Tan is an avid creative and expert hobby collector born in Malaysia, raised in Australia. They enjoy art, dance and writing, and are passionate about issues related to mental health, careers, relationships, and wellbeing.
@pwaafu
Mika Flockhart (they/them)
Mika Flockhart is an artist, zine maker, and amateur website coder.