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    Michelle Kadarusman

    Michelle Kadarusman is an Australian-Indonesian children’s author. She grew up in Melbourne and has lived many years throughout Indonesia, and in Canada. Her novels have […]

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    Kerry Greenwood

    Kerry Greenwood is the author of more than fifty novels, a book of short stories, six non-fiction works, and the editor of two collections of […]

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    Jo Worsfold

    Jo Worsfold is a Tasmanian author on a mission. Just off the south coast of the Australian mainland, known by the locals as The Apple […]

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    Alex Miller

    Alex Miller is the award-winning author of twelve novels and a collection of essays and stories. His work is published internationally and widely in translation. […]

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    Chris Hammer

    Chris Hammer was a journalist for more than thirty years, dividing his career between covering Australian federal politics and international affairs. For many years he […]

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    Petronella McGovern

    Petronella grew up in a large family on a farm in New South Wales – building tree houses, chasing cows and avoiding snakes. Bitten by the travel […]

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    Alex Nicol

    Alex Nicol was ABC’s first rural radio presenter. He started at the ABC in 1967, and was presenter of the ‘All Ways on Sunday’ program, […]

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    Trish Corbett

    Trish Corbett created the 9-PAC (Personal/Parenting Awareness Components) as a practical tool to help create a kinder, safer world for our children. Trish experienced a […]

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    Emily O’Grady

    Emily O’Grady was born in 1991 in Brisbane. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in, or are forthcoming in Review of Australian Fiction, Westerly, Australian […]

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    Kirsty Manning

    Kirsty Manning grew up in northern New South Wales. A country girl with wanderlust, her travels and studies have taken her through most of Europe, […]

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    Jan Latta

    Jan Latta was born in Sydney. She worked in advertising as a creative director in Sydney, London and Hong Kong. In 1994 Jan came face-to-face […]

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    Chris Masters

    Chris Masters is a powerful force in Australian journalism. In 1985, he won Australia’s most prestigious award in journalism, the Gold Walkley, for his Four […]

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    Sofie Laguna

    Sofie Laguna originally studied to be a lawyer, but after deciding law was not for her, she trained as an actor. Sofie is now an […]

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    Lisa Dempster

    Lisa Dempster is the Director and CEO of the Melbourne Writers Festival and the former Director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival Director, where she founded […]

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    Emily Brewin

    Emily Brewin is a freelance writer and secondary school teacher. Hello, Goodbye is her first novel. She has been awarded an Australian Society of Authors […]

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    Annie Crawford

    Chair and Founder of Can Too Foundation Originally a social worker, working in community mental health and sexual assault, Annie moved into human resources before […]

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    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

    Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a multi-award-winning writer and broadcaster widely known for his uncompromising commitment to seasonal, ethically produced food. He has earned a huge following […]

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    Elizabeth Clark

    Elizabeth is a counsellor specialising in high-need teenagers referred from courts and welfare agencies, as well as regular kids like yours and mine.  She’s done […]

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    John Merrick

    John Merrick is a social worker by trade, having graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1983. John has worked in the public […]

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    Charity Norman

    Charity Norman was born in Uganda and brought up in successive draughty vicarages in Yorkshire and Birmingham. After several years’ travel she became a barrister, […]

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    Craig Phillips

    Craig Phillips is a freelance illustrator, who works for publishers all around the world from his New Zealand studio. His first picture book was Megumi […]

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    Anna Daniels

    Anna Daniels has enjoyed great success as a comedic storyteller since kicking off her career by winning the ABC’s ‘Comedy Segment of the Year Award’ […]

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