Amanda is a novelist and screenwriter. She is a Scribe Award winner, a two-time Tin Duck Award winner, and an Aurealis, and Ditmar Award finalist and author of several novels - both original and tie-in works (Tie-in works include: Marvel, Pandemic, Warhammer). Her novel The Subjugate is being developed for TV by Aquarius Films (AUS)…
Writer, paramedic, educator and author of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic, Tammie is passionate about the human focus of healthcare. With a particular focus on the unique challenges of the emergency prehospital environment, her first book was published in June 2019, a second paramedic text has been scheduled for release in October…
Experienced business professional and published non-fiction author with expertise in the areas of professional writing, business analysis, digital marketing , technical writing, award submissions, blog writing and content creation. With an ability to cut-through detailed information and determine what is important to the intended readers, I am adept at delivering content that pitches at the…
Cristy Burne is a dynamic speaker, science writer and author of children’s fiction and non-fiction. She’s also worked as a science editor in Switzerland, a patent editor in Japan, a science educator in South Africa, and a science circus performer in Australia. Cristy is passionate about empowering our next generation of creative, science-savvy citizens.
Kelly Canby is an internationally published illustrator and author of over two dozen books for children. Kelly was born in London, England, but has lived in Australia since the age of three, which is probably around the same age she started playing with pencils and crayons, and it was probably only a few years after…
Charmaine Cave is an award-winning book designer and a published author and illustrator. She is the founder and Creative Director of Cave Design, which specialises in bespoke book design, and the co-author of the book ‘Swanning Around Perth: An exploration of the Black Swan in our city’ with Alex George AM.
Jay Chesters is an award-winning author of contemporary fiction, interweaving folklore, science fiction and social commentary. When he's not working, Jay is usually found in the wild in Perth bookshops or various cafes and coffee shops, writing and making the place look untidy. When he's not writing, Jay is generally fretting about how he should…
Tom Clark released his debut novel 'The Fossilarchy' in March 2022. A cli-fi political thriller, it has been described as 'an exhilarating read tackling the climate crisis' and has received 5 stars from Readers' Favorite. After a lifetime of writing non-fiction as an international environmental consultant, Tom decided to turn his hand to fiction to…
Amanda Curtin is the author of two novels (ELEMENTAL, UWA Publishing, 2013; Scribe, UK, 2016); THE SINKINGS, UWA Publishing, 2008), a collection of short stories (INHERITED, UWA Publishing, 2011), and most recently a work of creative non-fiction (KATHLEEN O’CONNOR OF PARIS, Fremantle Press, 2018). She has also worked in publishing for more than 30 years…
Natalie D-Napoleon is a writer, singer-songwriter and educator from Fremantle, Australia who is now completing a PhD in Creative Writing. She spent the last decade in the United States where she worked as a Coordinator at a City College Writing Centre. Her poetry and creative nonfiction has appeared in Meanjin, Southerly, Griffith Review, Australian Poetry…