Mary Beauchamp began life in the 1860’s in Sydney. Born to a well to do merchant and his wife, Mary (known then as May) spent her first few years in the colony before her father led the family back to England. It was here that Mary gained an education, became very...
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 transient youth, growing up in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, the...
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 Corners report on the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. His reports ‘The Big League’ and...
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 author, actor and playwright. Her second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep – shortlisted for the Stella Prize – won the...
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 both the Digital Writers’ Conference and EWFdigital, an innovative online programming stream. Lisa has...
Patty Mills was born on August 11, 1988 in Canberra, Australia. His father Benny is from the Torres Strait Islands, and his mother Yvonne is an Australian Aboriginal originally from the Kokatha people in South Australia. Patty was born into a family that was...
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 Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ mentorship for her fiction writing, and has been shortlisted for...
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 this for almost 30 years. Her other books include Parenting Plugged-In Teens: Becoming Their GPS in a...
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 and private sectors and has taught crisis counselling around the country which included how to cope with bereavement, suicide,...
