Deb Fitzpatrick is the author of ten books. She has received awards in Australia (CBCA, WAYBRA), been published in the US and optioned for film. Deb has a Master of Arts and loves weaving stories from real life into her writing. She regularly teaches creative writing to people of all ages. Deb lived for four…
Alan Fyfe is a Jewish Australian author from Boorloo, the unceded country of the Noongar nation. His poetry and prose fiction has received recognition with a number of awards and listings in Australia and internationally. He is the author of a novel, T (Transit Lounge 2022), and a poetry collection, G-d, Sleep, and Chaos (forthcoming,…
Jess Gately is an editor and writing mentor specialising in science fiction and fantasy literature. She loves storytelling in all its formats—written, verbal and visual—and loves helping others tell their stories. She sits on the boards for Night Parrot Press and Writing WA, teaches editing and publishing at Curtin University, and works with a variety…
Walkley Award winning journalist and prize winning photographer, Richard Goodwin, is the author of biographies, family histories and monographs. A former Fairfax daily newspaper editor, he has extensive magazine credits and a first class honours degree in communications.
Kerry is an award-winning poet and writer based in Perth. Her work explores the reality of women's lives—the parts that are often whitewashed in mainstream media. As a widow and solo parent, Kerry has a particular interest in writing about grief, and what comes after the shock of loss. She is in her final year…
Currently I have two children's books published, Gregory the Greedy Duck and Gregory and the Bully. Gregory the Greedy Duck is about a duckling who loves eating leftover chips. This has a negative impact when one day he eats so many he cannot fly and must walk home. Gregory and the Bully is still about…
Per Henningsgaard is an IPEd accredited editor with in-house experience in both trade and educational publishing, as well as experience as a freelance editor. He has edited books of adult fiction (including novels and collections of short stories) and adult nonfiction (including memoir, history and travel). He has also edited children's fiction, including picture books,…
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…
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…
Anna is an emerging writer from Perth, Western Australia. She grew up and spent most of her adult years in the Philippines, until she immigrated to Australia to be with her then fiance, and now husband, back in 2012. She grew up in a Catholic family, and she graduated from the University of the Philippines…