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Megan Albany
Shortlisted for the Banjo prize (Harper Collins) in 2020, Megan Albany is a proud Kalkadoon author with an amazingly witting, original and 'down-to-earth' writing style. Beyond Words Literary Agency recently secured Megan a two-book deal with Hachette Publishing. Megan's debut novel The Very Last List of Vivian Walker was released on the 9th February in 2022 and is receiving rave reviews from all over the country. This book will also be released in the UK in August, through Hachette UK.
Kate McCaffrey
Award-winning author Kate McCaffrey has published five Young Adult novels and a non-fiction Coded Marking and Feed-forward book for English teachers. Kate's debut adult crime fiction novel, Double Lives has just been published by Echo Publishing (Oct 2022). This very contemporary crime novel is making waves around the country.
Claire van Ryn
Claire van Ryn is a professional writer with over 16 years’ experience as a newspaper journalist and freelance writer. She has also worked as editor of several small print magazines and has a Bachelor of Arts with an English Literature major. debut novel 'Secrets of the Huon Wren' will be released by Penguin Random House (Australia) in June 2023.
Sharon Giltrow
Sharon Giltrow has two picture books published by EK Books and her third and fourth are due for release in 2023. She also has a middle-grade series due for release in April 2023 through Clear Fork Publishing in America.
Paul Pritchard
Paul has four published books – Deep Play, The Longest Climb, The Totem Pole, and his latest, The Mountain Path ( Vertebrate, UK, 2021) which is represented by Beyond Words Literary Agency.
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This is an amazing read written by an amazing man. Paul is also a sort after speaker/diversity and inclusion educator. Contact us to book Paul for your next event.
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Karyn Sepulveda
Karyn Sepulveda is the author of Letters to my Yesterday (Ventura Press 2018, Random House Germany, 2021) and The Women’s Circle (Ventura Press 2021). Karyn is also a primary-school teacher, specialising in Creative Writing and Drama.
Donna M Cameron
Novelist, D.M. Cameron, is also an AWGIE nominated radio dramatist, award winning playwright and short film writer. Her debut novel, ‘Beneath the Mother Tree’, (2018 Midnight Sun) was hailed as ‘a masterful evocation of place’ by The Australian and listed as a top 2018 Australian fiction read.
Her latest manuscript, ‘The Rewilding’ will be published by Transit Lounge in 2024.
Sarah Speedie
Her debut picture book Mozzies vs Flies was released in November 2021 and her second picture book Meowster Chef was released in July 2022, both with Larrikin House. Mozzies vs Flies has also just been shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia, Book of the Year 2022 awards. Her latest picture book 'Boss Cat' will be published by Harper Collins in 2024.
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Katrina Kell
Award-winning author Katrina Kell has published two young adult novels, short fiction, poetry, essays and journalism. In 2020, she was the winner of an Australian Society of Authors Award Mentorship for her unpublished novel manuscript So Everyone Sees Her Now inspired by the infamous French nude painting Chloé. Created in Paris in 1875, Chloé has graced the walls of Young and Jackson Hotel in Melbourne since 1909 and is now a much-loved cultural icon.
Anne Morgan
Anne is the author of twelve published children’s books, including the Captain Clawbeak junior novels with Random House Australia. She has won the Environment Award for Children’s Literature, and other writing awards. Her most recent picture book, The Way of the Weedy Seadragon, CSIRO Publishing, February 2021, is now going into reprint, and BWLA have just secured her a publishing deal with CSIRO for her new Children's book, Tardigrades, to be released in 2023.
Kristen Dagg
Kristen is a television writer, producer and film editor who writes regularly about women’s issues for Kidspot, Mamamia, Babyology and other online publications.
She has been writing her whole life and is currently working on her second novel. She received an award for a short story in a Voices Of Women anthology and has had a short story published in ACE 111 - Arresting Contemporary Stories collection.
Aleesah Darlison
Aleesah Darlison is an internationally published, award-winning Australian author of over 65 books for children. She is known for her books that champion the cause of animals and the environment and for her stories that empower children.
Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in English literature from King’s College in Pennsylvania wherein he won several English awards.His utopian novel, Amoena Vieta: A Dream is scheduled to be published in 2023. He is currently working as a psychotherapist to improve the lives of individuals struggling with a wide variety of mental health, chemical dependency, and other psychosocial issues.
Andie Huber
After spending 14 years in NYC as a decorating editor for magazines such as Real Simple and Country Living, Andie Huber traded snowstorms for sunny skies and moved to Los Angeles with her family. When she's not writing for websites such as Tinybeans.com, This Old House, and MyDomaine, she's hard at work on her second novel where she's dissecting the complicated relationship between married couples and their friendships that can make, or sometimes break, those bonds.
Miranda Birthisel
Miranda Birthisel is a children’s author with a passion for fun stories that make children smile. As a mother and primary school teacher, picture books have always played an important part in her life. Miranda’s debut book ‘Say Freeze’, is due for release by Larrikin House in March 2023, and her second, 'The Santa Bilby' will be published by Scholastic in 2024.
Jacqueline de Rose-Ahern
Jacqueline de Rose-Ahern is an international award-winning author and creative coach. Her most recent title was part of the Penguin Random House Australia Aussie Kids series. Jacqueline was the recipient of the ACT Writers Centre 2017 Anne Edgeworth Fellowship. Her books have been recognised for a number of awards within Australia and internationally, including winning the travel category of the 2020 American Book Excellence Awards and being shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards in 2017 and 2019.
Heather Gallagher
Heather is a children’s author, presenter, book reviewer and award-winning journalist. Her picture book HAPPY PANTS was a recommended title in the Australian Family Therapist’s awards for children’s literature. Her latest picture book SCAREDY CAT with New Frontier Publishing is based on her anxious dog, Pip. She lives by the sea in rural Victoria with her family, Pip and three needy chickens.
Kelly Sgroi
Kelly Sgroi is based in Melbourne, Australia. She’s a content writer at Social Media Tribe and an enthusiastic member of the writing community who conducts author interviews and posts book reviews. She has some short works published by WOW! Women on Writing, Dream Journal, The Endometriosis Foundation of America, Endometriosis Australia, and a few Medium publications. Her debut manuscript is a women’s fiction story about motherhood.
Kiralee Strong
Kiralee is a passionate children's writer living in the gorgeous seaside village of Evans Head, NSW, with her husband and kids. With four children of her own she has plenty of experience with engaging young minds and the kidlit world is where her heart is. Bringing joy and encouraging imagination in children and adults alike is her goal. With her first picture book, THE SEED being published by Ethicool in 2024. She loves the challenge of writing along with it's many rewards and along with picture books is also writing junior fiction and middle grade.
Michelle Wilson
Michelle Wilson lives in the Noosa Hinterland with her husband and three spirited children.
When she isn’t working as a primary school teacher, or wrangling her wild bunch at home, she’s probably at the beach or scribbling down her next big idea.
Michelle’s debut picture book, Crocs Don’t Do Yoga, published by Larrikin House (2021) is in its second print run and is available now.
She has another book in the production phase with EK Books, which will be released in late 2024.
Leearni Hamilton
Leearni Hamilton lives in Canberra with her husband and 10-month-old daughter, Niralee. She began writing short stories and poems in high school and her love affair with writing just grew from there. In 2014, she attended Fiona McIntosh’s Masterclass and her love of writing blossomed.
Leearni has written her memoir, ‘Where do I belong?’ and her first middle grade fiction novel, The temple of Malikye, which is the first in a series called, The Nimal Chronicles.
She is currently writing the second book in the Nimal Chronicles series.
Liz Foster
Liz Foster grew up in England in a family obsessed with Scrabble, Boggle, crosswords and books. A long career as a strategic marketer, feature writer, columnist and PR led her to the recent completion of two up-lit fiction manuscripts. Liz invites authors to guest blog alongside a picture representing a writerly moment. She is building a collection of cross-genre short stories and working on her third novel. When she’s not writing she’s thinking about it - peppering her family with questions about plot and character dilemmas, listening to podcasts, reading out loud and boring the dog senseless.
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