Science  Write  Now

What we do

Science Write Now is a free online magazine dedicated to creative writing and art inspired by science. We believe in accessibility, connectivity, inspiration and collaboration across disciplines.

We aim to:

  1. help writers and scientists explore creative ways of communicating science

  2. encourage writers from all backgrounds to incorporate science into their practice

  3. facilitate sustainable, creative connections between scientists and writers

We publish all forms of creative writing and art in our annual themed editions; chat with writers and scientists in our monthly podcast; and are always looking for new books, artists, resources, and ideas to share with our community on our Instagram or through our fortnightly Substack Newsletter.

Core team

Dr Amanda Niehaus, Co-Founder & Editor in Chief

Amanda Niehaus is author of the acclaimed novel The Breeding Season—a story of human resilience based on the reproductive biology of northern quolls. Her essays and stories have been published in AGNI, NOON Annual, Griffith Review, Overland, Creative Nonfiction, Best Australian Essays, and more. Amanda is a previous winner of the Overland VU Short Story Prize, runner-up for the Bragg Prize for Science Writing, and has received a Varuna Residential Fellowship, a Whitlam Essay Residency and a Queensland Writers' Fellowship. Amanda can be found at www.amandacniehaus.com or on socials as @amandacniehaus.

Dr Jessica White, Co-Founder & Chair, Advisory Panel

Jessica White is the award-winning author of two novels, A Curious Intimacy and Entitlement, and a hybrid memoir about deafness, Hearing Maud. Her short stories and essays have appeared widely in Australian and international literary journals and have been shortlisted and longlisted for major prizes. Jessica is the recipient of funding from Arts Queensland and the Australia Council for the Arts and has undertaken residencies in Hobart, Rome and Munich. She is currently writing an ecobiography of Western Australia’s first non-Indigenous female scientist, 19th-century botanist Georgiana Molloy. Jessica can be found at www.jessicawhite.com.au or on socials at @ladyredjess.

Bianca Millroy, Managing Editor - Podcast and Newsletter

Bianca Millroy (she/her) is an emerging science writer, podcaster, and editor, whose creative work appears in Science Write Now issues eight and nine, Visible Ink and Writing Queensland as well as publications: Brisbane Bookshops by AndAlsoBooks, Ink and Inclusionby UQ and FND Stories: Personal and Professional Experiences of Functional Neurological Disorder by Jessica Kinglsey. Bianca was the recipient of the 2024 Scribe/Varuna Nonfiction Fellowship for her creative nonfiction work-in-progress, Caput Nebula, and previously, she was a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards (Glendower Award). She is perilously undertaking her PhD in creative nonfiction titled “Cognitive conversations: Science-informed storytelling in the neurology clinic" at The University of Queensland. In 2024-25, Bianca joined the team at Science Write Now as part of her PhD industry placement, where she was managing editor for the SWN Newsletter and hosted the SWN podcast, producing the 8-part audio series Cognitive Conversations.

Contributors

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    Amanda Niehaus
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    Aaron Sandberg
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    Adeeba Shaik
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    Aislinn Martin
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    Alicia Sometimes
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    Amanda Tink
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    Andrea Baldwin
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    Angela Meyer
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    Anne Casey
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    Beth Spencer
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    Benjamin Dodds
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    B. R. Dionysius
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    Bethanie Humphreys
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    Bianca Millroy
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    Blake Chapman
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    Brian Garrison
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    Carol Jenkins
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    Cath Nichols
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    Charlotte Clutterbuck
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    Craig Cormick
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    Dan Beachy-Quick
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    Danielle Clode
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    David Salner
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    Denise Fowler
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    Donna Mazza
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    Emily Tsokos Purtill
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    Esther Ottaway
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    Eva Clifford
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    Heather Taylor-Johnson
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    Helen Marshall
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    Indrani Perera
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    J.M. Donellan
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    James B. Nicola
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    Jay Sykes
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    Jeanette Beebe
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    Jennifer Harrison
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    Jennifer Woodworth
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    Jenny Blackford
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    Jim A. Barker
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    Joanne Anderton
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    Johanna Airth
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    Johanna Bell
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    John McDonough
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    Julie Constable
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    Julie Lee
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    Karen M. Sandler
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    Karl Sherlock
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    Katerina Bryant
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    Katherine Kelly
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    Kathleen Jennings
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    Kathryn Fry
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    Kerri Shying
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    Kris Kneen
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    Kristine Rae Anderson
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    Lauren Poole
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    Lesley Porter
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    Liana Joy Christensen
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    Lisa Collyer
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    Lucy Davis
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    Lucy Zhang
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    Magdalena Ball
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    Magpie Miller
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    Marie Moe
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    Melanie Myers
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    Melissa Ashley
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    Meredi Ortega
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    Meryl Broughton
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    Michael J. Leach
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    Michèle Saint-Yves
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    Miles Hitchcock
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    Morgan Driscoll
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    Nancy Huggett
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    Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
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    Natalie Hitoun
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    Nicholas Bennett
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    Nick Marone
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    Nicole Cosme
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    Oliver Gough
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    Paul Bogard
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    Paul Hostovsky
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    Paul Scully
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    Rachael Mead
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    Rita Tognini
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    Robert René Galván
  • Ronald Wilkins
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    Rose Michael
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    Ryan P. O’Donnell
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    Sarah Keenihan
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    Selena de Carvalho
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    Shey Marque
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    Simon Cleary
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    Stephen Orr
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    Terry Mulhern
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    Tiel Aisha Ansari
  • Tina Wilson lies in front of a painting of a dry leaf, while holding a large dry leaf.
    Tina Wilson
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    Tom Hennemann
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    Tracy Ryan
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    Tricia Dearborn
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    Troy Walsh
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    Tsunami Hee Ja
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    Verity Borthwick
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    Vivienne Glance
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    William Fox
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    Willo Drummond
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    Yoko Ogawa
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    Yvonne Patterson