Melissa Min is one of Western Australia’s most prominent professional Storytellers. She is a published poet, author, and psychotherapist who works with language, myth and story to evoke a deep sense of connection and belonging. Melissa is a pas...

Libby Iriks fell in love with story as an eight-year-old when her teacher read Charlotte’s Web to the class. She developed a fondness for the romance genre soon after, and in 2018, combined her passions when she became the Commissionin...

Stuart Everly-Wilson is an Australian writer living in Bundjalung country in New South Wales with his partner and the ghost of Aspro the dog. His first published work, Low Expectations, was short-listed for the 2022 New South ...

Celia Berrell is an England-born Australian writer and poet who is best known for her Science Rhymes, which have been published by the CSIRO and in textbooks for Australian, Irish and Canadian high school students. Celia taught maths and...

Danni Line has been hooked on reading since childhood and fell in love with writing in her senior year, thanks to a crush on her English teacher. She writes Romantic Suspense and Paranormal Romance where her characters find redemption through r...

Bonnibelle Angelica is a debut author from rural Australia. Growing up with a love for creativity, she has done everything from sculpting to painting to costume design, but nothing has held her attention quite like writing. After a burst of pop...

Riley Merigan is a Perth-based performer, actor, dancer and singer who has appeared in a range of community theatre productions since taking a lead role in his high school performance of the musical Grease as a fifteen-year-old. The bu...

Holly Cardamone is an award-winning Australian author and communications specialist. Her writing has appeared in publications as diverse as bridal tomes and in fashion magazines, in trade publications and in the large dailies. Her debut novel, ...

Australian author William Lane lives in a quiet, rural corner of the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.  When he is not writing, he loves to read, play vinyl records or make up songs while looking out his window at the Brokenback Range...

Steve Heron is an award-winning children’s book author and champion of wellbeing in children. When he’s not hanging out with the local cheeky magpies, or reminiscing about his puppetry and TV presenter days, he’s crafting stories that touch and...

Belinda Lyons-Lee is an Australian historical fiction author whose latest novel is a page-turning gothic mystery based on the events that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Belinda loves books. Stori...

Robbie Coburn is an Australian poet and author of the young adult verse novel The Foal in the Wire, released in June by Hachette Australia. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and he has published four full-len...

Lee Battersby is an award-winning author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction. At various times in his life, he has...

Tracy Ryan has taught literature, creative writing and film at various universities in Australia and England, and worked as a bookseller, editor and translator. Her poetry has won many awards and she is the author of six critically acclaimed no...

Jennifer Bagg is an award-winning artist creating work at the intersection of theatre, dance and performance art. She is based between Estonia, the United Kingdom and Australia, and having called multiple cities around the world home, cultural ...

Gretchen Shirm was a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist and two of her novels were shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Awards. Her short fiction and literary criticism have been pu...

Alyssa Curtayne is a passionate storyteller, writer, and researcher who is on a mission to breathe new life into forgotten fairy tales and the ancient art of storytelling. With a deep love for the old stories and the timeless lessons the...

James Foley is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist who started his career in primary school drawing cartoons for the school newspaper. He is now an award-winning children’s books creator with a growing collection of picture books, middle grade...

Sandi Parsons describes herself as a book nerd, cystic fibrosis warrior, mother, transplant recipient and unicornologist who lives and breathes stories, as a reader, writer and storyteller. She shares her home with her favourite husband,...

Katrina Kell’s recent novel, Chloe, was inspired by one of Australia’s most iconic paintings, which has graced the walls of Young and Jackson Hotel since 1909. ‘Having a drink with Chloé’ has been a good luck ritual for...

Master storyteller Norman Jorgensen crafts tales about small heroes, smugglers, Vikings, pirates and Anzacs for young readers. Norman fell in love with books at an early age and has spent nearly all his life working in the book trade sur...

Critically acclaimed novelist and essayist Andrea Goldsmith discovered the wonderful world of reading as a child and as soon as she learned that books were written by real people, she decided that was what she wanted to do. Her first nov...

Ann Dombroski’s prize-winning short fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies and she recently celebrated the release of her debut novel After the Great Storm, a novel of threat and intrigue set in Sydney 50 year...

Lisa Holland is a corporate affairs specialist, journalist and author who writes books that she hopes will make a difference in the world. Her non-fiction books feature Aboriginal Australians, remarkable women and exceptional people over...

Cristy Burne is a creative learning professional who encourages every one of us to experiment with learning, creativity and fun. To get motivated, get courageous, fall down and get up again. Cristy is a scientist, journalist, award-winni...