Joel McKerrow is an award-winning writer, keynote speaker, educator, children’s author with Penguin Random House and one of Australia’s most successful performance poets. Full time in his creative career for the past fifteen years, Joel was the Australian representative at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships and has performed throughout the world in 15 different […]
Will Small is an inspiring spoken word poet and storyteller who works at the intersection of the creative arts and social impact. A 3 x Australian Poetry Slam national finalist, author of Poems for When the World is Ending and the founder of Lead by Story, Will graduated from the ANU in 2013 after […]
Boori Monty Pryor is a multi-award-winning children’s author, didjeridoo player, storyteller, dancer and renowned public speaker. Boori was born in Townsville, North Queensland. His father was from the Birrigubba people of the Bowen region and his mother is from Yarrabah (near Cairns), a descendant of the Kungganji. Boori played Basketball for the Queensland State Under […]
After completing a teaching degree, Deb went to Africa where she was caught in a desert sandstorm, harassed by monkeys and thrown in jail…twice! She became the producer/writer of a national kids’ TV show before leaving to write 28 children’s books. Her crankiness about climate change led to the novels, Grimsdon, New City and Final […]
Judy Watson is a book illustrator and artist, working from a home studio overlooking peaceful Sweetwater Creek in Victoria. Children’s book illustration combines her interests in the visual arts, animals, nature, people, stage and costume, and books. Illustrating children’s books since 1998, Judy has been published by Penguin, HarperCollins, Walker Books, and Allen & Unwin. […]
Justine has taught, researched, produced, and performed stand-up comedy since 2007. She has performed and taught comedy to a diverse range of clients, nationally and internationally. Justine’s writing has appeared in Jewish Women of Words, Funny Women, in short story anthologies and academic journals, and her MA thesis Mistress of Mirth’s COMEDY Tour was published […]
Sofie Laguna originally studied to be a lawyer, but after deciding law was not for her, she trained as an actor. Sofie began her writing career as an author for children and has written over twenty books for young people. Her work has been published in the US, the UK and in translation throughout Europe […]
Mark Greenwood is an author with a passion for history. His award winning books have been honoured internationally. He has twice received the West Australian Premier’s Award for The Legend of Lasseter’s Reef and The Legend of Moondyne Joe. Other titles include Ned Kelly and the Green Sash, Midnight – the story of a light […]
Frané Lessac is an author/ illustrator of international renown having over 40 award winning children’s books. She has a passion to inspire and instill pride in children about their own unique heritage and their ability to capture it in pictures and words. Frané has contributed her distinctive paintings to many picture books including, “Simpson and […]
An engaging and comedic speaker, Martin Ed Chatterton has been writing, illustrating and performing successfully around the world for the last thirty years appearing extensively at schools, festivals, conferences, TV and radio in the UK, Australia, India, China and the USA. His books for children and adults have been published in more than a dozen […]