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:
help writers and scientists explore creative ways of communicating science
encourage writers from all backgrounds to incorporate science into their practice
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.