The Tradwives Club

Megan Agnew (she/her)

Megan Agnew is a senior features writer for The Times of London. After spending the first part of her career in the London office, she has been based in the US for the last year, where she writes magazine long reads. Last summer, her interview with Hannah Neeleman, otherwise known as Ballerina Farm, went viral, the most-read Times article in history, and triggering heated debate about motherhood, domesticity, social media culture and the meaning of modern feminism. Megan's writing otherwise covers the cross-over between politics and culture, travelling to weird and wonderful corners of the country each week, from the oil fields of West Texas to a "Maga warehouse" in Long Island. She has been highly commended for feature writer of the year at the Press Awards and named one of MHP's "30 To Watch" young journalists.   

Jessie Tu (she/her)

Jessie Tu is a journalist for Women’s Agenda. Her bestselling debut novel, A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, won the 2021 Best Literary Fiction at the Australian Book Industry Awards. Her second novel, The Honeyeater was released in July 2024.

Rosie Waterland (she/her)

Rosie Waterland is an author, comedian, podcaster and public speaker, but mostly calls herself a writer. Her first two books, The Anti-Cool Girl and Every Lie I’ve Ever Told, were critically acclaimed, national bestsellers. Her podcasts Mum Says My Memoir is a Lie and Just the Gist have over 20 million combined downloads, earning her an Australian Commercial Radio Award and Australian Podcast Award. As well as nationally touring one-woman shows, Rosie has written for multiple TV projects and is a regular fixture across Australian stage, screen and radio. Broken Brains, a non-fiction book Rosie co-authored with Jamila Rizvi, is set to be published in May 2025, followed by her first work of fiction in 2026. 

Nakkiah Lui (she/her)

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Nakkiah Lui is a writer/actor/director and Gomeroi/Torres Strait Islander woman. She began her playwriting career in 2013 with her first play, This Heaven and since then she has worked with every major theatre company in Australia. In 2012, Nakkiah was the inaugural recipient of both The Dreaming Award from The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Arts Board of the Australia Council and the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright Award. In 2018, Nakkiah was the recipient of the Patrick White Playwrights Fellowship at Sydney Theatre Company. In 2019, Nakkiah Lui was a winner of the NSW Premiers Literary recipient of the Nick Enright Playwriting Prize. In 2021, she was the recipient of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing for her play Black is the New White.  

Nakkiah is an AACTA and Logie nominated writer and actor. She was an actor/writer/director/producer of the ground-breaking series, Black Comedy, which ran for four seasons from 2014-2019. From then she went on to create/write/star in the award-winning series, Kiki & Kitty which aired on ABC in 2017. Most recently, Nakkiah has been the co-creator/showrunner/star of the upcoming series, Preppers, as well contributing to a number of Australian and international drama and comedy series, such as Total Control and The Great.