Steve is an award-winning children's author passionate about social and emotional well-being. With four decades of experience, Steve has honed his skills in helping children manage their emotions, which he translates into his writing. When he's not hanging out with his feathered friends, the local magpies, or reminiscing about his puppetry and TV presenter days,…
Nathan is a biographer based in Perth. His books have won the WA Premier's Prize for Book of the Year and the TAG Hungerford Award. He is an engaging and thoughtful speaker and workshop facilitator.
Susan Hoddy is a multi published, award winning, fiction, writer/author of "The Lepidoptera Vampire Series" and "Security". Her books are available in Australia and Internationally in e-book and paperback format.
Lorraine is a lover of stories of all shapes and sizes and writes for children and adults. She has written a non-fiction book for students going onto higher education, 'You've Got This, Tips for the Uncertain Student', inspired by her own students struggling to overcome imposter syndrome and fear of failure. Her picture book, 'When…
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.
Suzanne wrote her first play at the tender age of nine, as entertainment for her classmates during their sewing lessons... Since then, she has practiced and honed her writing for performance techniques; become a published and performed playwright; won numerous grants and accolades for her plays; and passed on her skills and passion for performance…
Libby is passionate about story and the romance genre. She writes about women who yearn for acceptance and belonging and the men who see their true value and worth. When she's not writing, she coaches new and emerging romance authors to write the best stories they can, what she likes to call 'stories with heart'.…
Michaela is an Emerging Writers Program participant for 2024-25. She left veterinary nursing in 2022 to chase her creative dreams. She is currently editing her YA fiction manuscript with her EWP mentor, Sharron Booth, and writing an Adult contemporary fiction novel. She is a member of Peter Cowan Writers Centre and a creative writing student…
I write popular fiction, both modern and historical stories, mainly about families and relationships. These are set in both Australia and the UK, where my publishers are based. I'm the 5th most borrowed author of adult fiction in the UK. I have 93 novels published now and more in the pipeline. What can I say?…
Born and bred in Perth, Western Australia, one of my earliest memories was of visiting a bookshop on windy St Georges Terrace, lined with timber bookcases all the way to the ceiling and a spiral staircase leading up to a balcony spanning its circumference. Another memory is sneaking out of the kid's section in the…