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Lauren Finger

CrimeFictionRomance
Editing and proofingPublic appearance
Lauren is a very experienced book editor with an excellent reputation in trade publishing in Australia and the UK. She specialises in commercial fiction because she loves working with stories that entertain, engage, comfort and thrill readers – and with the writers who create them. She is approachable, supportive and constructive, making suggestions that will help tighten and lift novels so that they achieve their story goals and keep readers engaged. Lauren has worked in-house and freelance with many publishers in Australia, the UK and the USA, as well as with independent (self-publishing) authors and aspiring authors.
Website: https://laurenfinger.com/

Clare Fletcher

ComedyFictionJournalismRomance
Collaborative projectsCopywritingEditing and proofingJournalismJudgingPublic appearanceSchool visits
Clare Fletcher is the author of romantic comedies Love Match (2023) and Five Bush Weddings (2022), both published by Penguin Random House. Clare's short stories have been prize-winners in the Scarlet Stiletto, the Best Australian Yarn and Roly Sussex Short Story Competition, and published in The Big Issue and The West Australian. Clare also co-hosts That Rom Com Pod with fellow author Karina May, and works part-time in communications for the Walkley Foundation for Journalism.
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Website: https://www.instagram.com/clarefletcherwriter/

Maria P Frino

FictionKids and YARomance
Beta readingCollaborative projectsCopywritingEditing and proofingPublic appearanceSchool visits
Maria P Frino is an author, editor and copywriter. She writes short stories, novels and novellas. Her books are available on her website - www.mariapfrino.com. She is also a member of Sydney Authors Inked and helps to coordinate events at The Little Big House, Summer Hill. She is open to collaborating with other authors and artists.
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Website: http://www.mariapfrino.com/

Peggy Giakoumelos

FictionJournalismMemoirNon-fiction
Collaborative projectsGhost writingJournalismJudgingPublic appearanceSchool visits
Peggy Giakoumelos is a multimedia journalist, podcast producer, presenter and writer working professionally across audio and digital. She has a special interest in human interest story-telling and has produced a number of award-winning published profiles on a range of individuals in both audio and text format. She currently produces a podcast series for SBS News in Sydney, Change Agents, profiling individuals changing the community we live in. She is also a newsreader, voice coach, fiction writer, trainer and occasional MC. Peggy is working on her first book length work of fiction due to be completed in 2024. 
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Website: https://www.peggygiakoumelos.net/about-me

Jodi Gibson

FictionRomance
JudgingPublic appearance
Jodi is an author of feel-good women's fiction and has published both independently and traditionally. Her second novel The Five Year Plan was short listed in Booktopia's FAB awards in 2021. Jodi is also a writing mentor, and host of the bite-sized writing podcast, Ask The Author. A vocal supporter of women authors, particularly those writing genre fiction, Jodi is particularly passionate about growing the standard and accessibility of independent publishing in Australia. Jodi's latest novel, Reinventing Emily Brown was published in September 2023. 
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Website: http://www.jfgibson.com.au/

Georgina Hibberd

JournalismMemoirNon-fiction
Collaborative projectsJournalismPublic appearance
Georgina Hibberd primarily writes about sport, particular women's sport and gender. In 2021 she published Never Surrender: the inside story of the GWS Giants 2020 AFLW season, an unflinching look at the reality for women playing Australian Football at the highest level. Her pieces have appeared on ABC Sport and Siren Sport.
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Website: https://georginahibberd.wordpress.com/

Rod Howard

FictionJournalismNon-fiction
CopywritingGhost writingJournalism
Rod Howard is an author, ghostwriter, copywriter and freelance journalist, with a background in arts management, media, publishing and strategic communications. In his narrative biographies, Rod has a passion for illuminating under-known and arcane corners of social history. Rod's books include The Fabulist (Random House), The Man Who Invented Vegemite (Murdoch Books) and A Forger's Tale (Arcade Publications), winner of the FAW Walter Stone Award for Biography. He has written regular columns and features in arts, travel and parenting. Rod was also founding Chair of the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival in NSW and a peer of the Australia Council.
Website: https://www.rodhowardwriter.com/

Wendy Howitt

ComedyFictionJournalismKids and YANon-fiction
Beta readingCollaborative projectsCopywritingEditing and proofingGhost writingJournalismJudgingPublic appearanceReviewingSchool visits
Wendy Howitt has written on staff for publications such as Vogue Australia, Harper’s Bazaar and The Sydney Morning Herald, and worked as a freelancer. She has written press releases, website content and advertorials. She has self-published two young adult books and has a BA, majoring in English, and a MA in Writing.
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Website: https://www.wendyhowitt.com/

Ivy Ireland

FictionNon-fictionPoetry
CopywritingEditing and proofingJudgingPublic appearanceReviewingSchool visits
Ivy Ireland is the author of the poetry collections Incidental Complications (2007), Porch Light (2015), The Owl Inside (2020) and Tide (forthcoming, 2023). Ivy’s literary awards include the Australian Young Poet Fellowship, the Olga Masters Short Story Award, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Thunderbolt Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize local award, and runner-up in the UC International Poetry Prize. Ivy completed her PhD in 2012 and her poetry, short fiction, essays and reviews have been widely published in journals and anthologies. Ivy enjoys teaching, editing and running workshops for aspiring writers.
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Eila Jameson-Avey

CrimeFictionKids and YAMemoirNon-fictionPoetry
Beta readingCopywritingEditing and proofingJudgingPublic appearanceReviewingSchool visits
Having taught most of her working life, Eila Jameson-Avey embraced her love of writing and research in her 50s—never too old to change your spots. Since then, she’s published a middle-grade thriller, Simon Goes to Spain (2019), and an adult thriller, Wellworth, which was published in July 2023. In 2021 she won the prestigious national Lane Cove Literary Award for memoir. Her love of education sent her back to school and she recently completed a Graduate Certificate in W&L. You can follow her antics at eilajamesonavey.com or on her Facebook page or on Instagram.
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Website: https://eilajamesonavey.com/

Simone Amelia Jordan

JournalismMemoirNon-fiction
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Simone Amelia Jordan is Australia's most successful hip-hop journalist. She has contributed to The Source, VIBE, Rolling Stone, ABC and SBS, and her celebrity interviews have notched over 13 million YouTube views. Simone founded and edited Australia’s highest-selling rap/R&B newsstand title, Urban Hitz. In 2021, Simone won the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. She mentors the next generation of multicultural talent through her work with Media Diversity Australia and Diversity Arts Australia and is resolute about hip-hop’s power to change the world. Tell Her She’s Dreamin’ is her first book.
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Website: http://www.simoneameliajordan.com/

Ashley Kalagian Blunt

CrimeFictionMemoirNon-fiction
CopywritingJournalismJudgingPublic appearanceSchool visits
Ashley Kalagian Blunt is a bestselling author and speaker living with chronic illness. Her psychological thriller, Dark Mode, is published in Australia and the UK, and forthcoming in Germany and South Korea. Her previous books are How to Be Australian, a memoir, and My Name Is Revenge, a thriller novella and collected essays. My Name Is Revenge was shortlisted for the 2019 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards and was a finalist in the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award. Her writing appears in Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, Overland, Australian Book Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Openbook, Kill Your Darlings, and more. She was shortlisted for the 2018 Impress Prize for New Writers and the 2017 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award. An award-winning speaker, Ashley has appeared at Sydney Writers’ Festival and Brisbane Writers’ Festival, and is a Moth StorySLAM winner. She co-hosts James and Ashley Stay at Home, a podcast about writing, creativity and health, and was a judge in the 2020 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship. With a decade of experience in teaching and curriculum design, she now teaches creative writing courses and mentors emerging writers. She has a Master of Research in creative writing.
Website: https://www.ashleykalagianblunt.com

Irveen Kaur

FictionKids and YA
Beta readingCollaborative projectsCopywritingEditing and proofingGhost writingJournalismJudgingPublic appearanceReviewingSchool visits
Irveen Kaur is a writer specialising in YA fantasy, literary fiction and short stories. She is the founder of Novelly - a business that runs one-on-one sessions with emerging writers to help them develop their manuscripts. Irveen has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Creative Writing) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and has experience teaching creative writing to kids aged 11-14 for the past 2 years. Her in-person creative writing workshops are currently held at UTS, Ku-ring-gai Community Centre, and Nirimba Fields.
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Website: https://novelly.com.au/

Christopher (Kit) Kelen

FictionKids and YAMemoirNon-fictionPoetry
Collaborative projectsCopywritingEditing and proofingJudgingPublic appearanceSchool visitsTranslation
Kit Kelen is a poet and painter, resident on Worimi country, in the Myall Lakes region of NSW. He has published more than a dozen volumes of poetry in English over the last thirty years, as well as books of poetry in a dozen languages other than English. His most recent painting/drawing exhibition was Rompitaj Labirintoj / Bung Mazes, held at the Shop Gallery in Sydney in 2022. This was accompanied by a bilingual (Esperanto and English) book of the same title. Kelen’s latest English language poetry volume is Book of Mother (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022).
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Gabriella Kelly-Davies

JournalismMemoirNon-fiction
Ghost writingJournalismPublic appearance
Gabriella Kelly-Davies, an award-winning biographer, published Breaking Through the Pain Barrier: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Michael J. Cousins, the biography of Australia’s foremost pain medicine pioneer, in 2021. A doctoral student at Sydney University, she has studied biography at Oxford University’s Centre for Life Writing and the Australian National University. Every month, Gabriella convenes an international roundtable for science and medical biographers, and she will soon launch Biographers in Conversation, a weekly podcast of interviews with biographers about how they seamlessly integrate science and medicine into life stories. Gabriella also ghostwrites family histories and memoirs. 
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Website: http://www.shareyourlifestory.com.au/

Christina King

FictionNon-fiction
CopywritingEditing and proofingGhost writing
As an experienced copywriter, proofreader and copyeditor, Christina King also works as a writer of historical fiction, with a focus on colonial Australia and on late eighteenth-century Britain. Christina enjoys reading and telling stories of forgotten voices from history, as well as non-fiction accounts of events and people from these periods. Christina has extensive experience working with teams on collaborative, creative copywriting projects as well as proofreading and copyediting documents, both short and long-form. Christina's short story, 'The Ink Stain' won the 2019 Historical Novel Society of Australasia's short story competition.
Website: http://www.christinaking.com.au/

Lee Kofman

FictionMemoirNon-fiction
JudgingPublic appearanceSchool visits
Dr Lee Kofman is a Russian-born, Israeli-Australian author based in Melbourne. Lee holds a PhD in social sciences and MA in creative writing. She is the author of three fiction books, and memoirs Imperfect (Affirm Press, 2019), which was shortlisted for the Nib Literary Award 2019, and The Dangerous Bride (Melbourne University Press, 2014), which was included in Best Books 2014 (The Age and Australian Book Review) and 2015 (The Age). Lee is the editor of Split (Ventura Press, 2019), which was longlisted for ABIA Awards 2020, and co-editor of Rebellious Daughters (Ventura Press, 2016), anthologies of personal essays by prominent Australian authors. Her short works have been published in Australia, Scotland, UK, Israel, the USA and Canada. Her blog about writing was a finalist for Best Australian Blogs 2014. She teaches writing and mentors writers. Her most recent book is The Writer Laid Bare (Ventura Press, 2022).
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Website: https://leekofman.com.au/

Alexandra L

CrimeFiction
Beta readingCopywritingEditing and proofingJudgingReviewing
Alexandra is passionate about all forms of writing. The ability to use words to provide further learning, create stories, tales and new worlds. Being able to transport yourself and others into your own creation provides a new perspective to the world and all that we may face. Alexandra has yet to publish her first novel but has immersed herself in the writing world for the past 10 years; gaining significance in copywriting, editing, proofreading and understanding the current market for authors and stories.
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Jodi Lamanna

Kids and YAMemoirNon-fiction
Editing and proofingGhost writing
Jodi is a writer and researcher with experience spanning across academic, non-fiction, and fictional writing. She is the author of Jessica Kingsley Publishers' Arriving Late (2024) - a collection of life stories from women with late autism diagnosis. She has also co-written chapters of a book through Springer and multiple academic papers. Jodi won the award for a children’s story with Voices From the Intersection and Allen & Unwin. She holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts, Graduate Certificate in Professional Writing, Master of Teaching (English & Music), PhD. and is currently studying an MA in Writing & Literature.
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Website: https://vintagetext.com.au/pages/services-editing-and-proofreading

Michelle Law

ComedyFictionMemoirNon-fictionStage and screen
Collaborative projectsJudgingPublic appearance
Michelle Law is a writer and actor – working in print, screen and stage – currently based on Gadigal Land. Her works include the plays, Single Asian Female (La Boite Theatre Company), Top Coat (Sydney Theatre Company), and Miss Peony (Belvoir St Theatre); the television shows Homecoming Queens (SBS) and Safe Home (SBS); and the book Asian Girls are Going Places (Hardie Grant). Her awards include two Australian Writers Guild Awards, the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award, and the Arts & Culture 40 Under 40 Awards, which celebrates the country’s most influential Asian Australians. Michelle is also a widely published freelance author and a prolific speaker who regularly appears on panels and at festivals.
Website: http://michelle-law.com/
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