2022 Penguin Literary Prize-winning Novelist, Annette Higgs, shared the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania. It is loosely based on her own family. Annette is a writer living in Sydney. After a long career as an Intellectual Property lawyer, she turned to creative writing, earning a Masters of Creative Writing and Doctor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney. Her short fiction has been published in a number of international and Australian literary journals. Her novel "On a Bright Hillside in Paradise" was first published in 2023, to critical acclaim.