Mohammed Massoud Morsi is an Egyptian-Danish-Australian photographer, journalist and writer. His work has been published in all three of his traditional languages. Morsi has a talent for reaching to the heart of existence in a complex world and looks to important questions, finding that which is quintessentially human within much broader struggles. His work is…
Kylie Howarth is an award-winning, internationally published children’s book author and illustrator from Western Australia. She not only draws inspiration from her underwater travels but also her own two fish-kids who are ocean explorers too.
Louise Allan is the author of the bestselling novel, 'The Sisters' Song', which won the Tina Kane Emergent Writer Award in 2018. She was shortlisted for the 2014 City of Fremantle—TAG Hungerford Award, awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship (2014) and was the Scholarship Writer in Residence at Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre (2019). Louise lives…
Frané Lessac is an author-illustrator, publishing over forty award-winning books for children. Frané speaks at festivals in Australia and overseas sharing the process of writing and illustrating books, empowering both children and adults. Frané’s latest books include Under the Southern Cross and We Are Grateful:Ostaliheliga, which has been awarded the 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Picture…
Sally Murphy loves to write and talk. A lot. So, when she's not writing, she's talking about writing. Her award winning books for children (and adults in touch with their inner child) include Pearl Verses the World and Toppling, and she has written picture books, verse novels, historical fiction and more. An enthusiastic presenter, Sally…
With more than 20 books of fiction, a fair number of awards and accolades, and a quarter-century of publishing experience, Rosanne Dingli now enjoys mentoring and public speaking in between creating her regular releases.
Daniel de Lorne is the author of the gay contemporary romance, The Love Left Behind, and five other works including the romantic horror trilogy, Bonds of Blood. In his other life, Daniel is a professional writer and researcher in Perth, Australia, with a love of history and nature.
Julie's creative palette is her diversity of practice which reveals an ability to imagine, realise and inspire imagery as an individual artist/designer, past academic and current freelance writer, illustrator and workshop leader.
Jen Banyard is a writer for big and little people. She’s best known for her middle readers’ adventure stories, notably the ‘Riddle Gully’ series, but has written and reviewed for adult journals. With a PhD in creative writing, Jen has taught at university and is a ukulele-toting advocate–facilitator of writing, reading and wonder in schools…
Multi-award-winning writer, Norman Jorgensen, is a versatile writer for young people with a dozen books published. He often feels like he is a twelve-year-old trapped in the body of an aging novelist, and does tend to see the world like that, which is probably useful for someone in his profession. He prides himself that nearly…
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