Shey Marque is a poet and former scientist, and currently coordinates the Hospital Poets Program on behalf of the KSPF Inc. She was the inaugural winner of the QLD Poetry Festival Emerging Poet Award in 2018. Her first full-length poetry collection, Keeper of the Ritual (UWAP 2019), was shortlisted for the Noel Rowe Poetry Award…
Elaine Forrestal is a writer, reviewer, blogger, mentor and public speaker. She has novels, picture books, short story anthologies, historical fiction and magazine articles, and one poem, published around the world in English, Italian and Slovenian. She is also an experienced judge of writing competitions. Elaine lives in Scarborough, Western Australia, and walks on the…
Donna Mazza writes fiction and poetry. She is author of "Fauna" (2020, Allen & Unwin) and "The Albanian" (2007, Fremantle Press), a TAG Hungerford Award winner and she teaches at Edith Cowan University in the South West.
Sandi Parsons lives and breathes stories, as a reader, writer and storyteller. Having spent nineteen years working in educational libraries, she is passionate about diversity in storytelling and engaging readers with stories.
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…
John Harman has written for a living all his working life: in advertising, as a journalist in London and New York, and as a film and television scriptwriter. He is also a novelist, having written a number of crime thrillers published by Hodder-Headline, as well as more than thirty non-fiction books. He now works mainly…
Kate McCaffrey is an award winning, internationally published Young Adult author. Kate grew up in Perth’s northern suburbs. She has a degree in English and Art and a diploma in Education.
My name’s Eryn (with a Y) and I’m a mother and wife. I work full time in marketing. I love to write. I love to give advice. I’ve got over three decades of accumulated information in my mind that I want to share. I’m the creator of The Data Driven Writer, a planner and e-course…
JAYNE LYONS is a Perth based children’s author who also works for a major Australian corporation. She has worked in the developing world and seen challenges faced by underprivileged children firsthand. She is passionate children being given the opportunity to achieve their dreams. Born and raised in Liverpool, UK, Jayne combines the unlikely loves of…
Chris Owen is an internationally published children's picture book author, poet and teacher. A former radio journalist and newsreader, he now lives in North Perth with his family and a growing menagerie of animals. Chris is the author of 'My Superhero' and 'Pandamonia', both published by Fremantle Press.