Jes Layton (he/him, she/her) is a writer, illustrator and arts worker living and working on Wurundjeri Land. He is the current co-CEO and Executive Director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. Jes’ written and illustrative work can be found at SBS, Junkee, Voiceworks, Kill Your Darlings, Archer, The Big Issue and scattered elsewhere online and in print. She also has work published with Black Inc, Fremantle Press and Nero Books among others. His tweets have been written about in Teen Vogue, the Daily Mail, Screen Rant, Buzzfeed and more. Exposure was apparently payment.
