Frané Lessac is an author/ illustrator of international renown, having over 50 award-winning children’s books. She has a passion to inspire and instil 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 His […]
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 […]
Isobelle Carmody was born in 1958 in Victoria and grew up looking after her seven brothers and sisters, whom she kept in line by telling horror stories. She began writing the first book of The Obernewtyn Chronicles when she was just fourteen years old, and then went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree […]
Brian Nankervis stormed the set of “Hey Hey, It’s Saturday” in 1986 with the character of Raymond J Bartholemeuz. He has since continued to perform his verse on TV, radio, with bands, in theatres, comedy venues and schools. Raymond has published a book of poems “Too many Crayfish Not Enough Brains” (McPhee Cribble, Penguin). His […]
Gabrielle Wang is an award winning Chinese Australian author and illustrator born in Melbourne. Her maternal great grandfather came to Victoria in 1853 during the Gold Rush. Her father is from Shanghai. Gabrielle’s stories are a diverse blend of eastern and western culture with a touch of fantasy. She has written more than twenty books […]
John Larkin began life as a professional soccer player but was forced to retire at twenty-one due to a serious knee injury and an even more serious bout of apathy. Disillusioned and heartbroken, he backpacked around Europe for a year, and was bitten by the writing bug while sitting in a café in Paris reading […]
Jenny Ellis has been a puppeteer for over fifteen years. She has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Puppetry from the Victorian College of the Arts. In 2012 she was awarded a major fellowship with the Mike Walsh Foundation to research contemporary puppetry in Europe. Jenny was a Researcher for the NSW Minister for Education from 2003-2005, […]
Leigh Hobbs has illustrated many children’s books as well as having his cartoon illustrations appear in newspapers. He also paints, draws and sculpts, his Flinders Street Railway Station teapot is in the National Gallery of Victoria and he has worked on Luna Park both in Sydney and Melbourne. Leigh has built a cult following among […]
Mandy Ord is a Melbourne based illustrator and cartoonist with a long history of self-publishing as well as having a number of published books. When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over published by Brow Books was longlisted for The Stella Prize in 2020 and shortlisted for the Small Press Book Network Book of […]
Brian is a performer, writer and producer. A primary teacher who become a waiter at theatre restaurant, The Last Laugh; then a writer/performer on hospital soap opera Let The Blood Run Free… and a tortured street poet Raymond J Bartholomeuz, a regular on ‘Hey Hey It’s Saturday’. Currently Brian co-hosts The Friday Revue with Jacinta […]