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Aleesah Darlison

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Aleesah Darlison is an award-winning author of over 65 books for children. She is well-known for her books that empower children and champion the cause of animals and the environment. Aleesah has won or been shortlisted for many awards including the Book Excellence Awards, the Environment Award for Children’s Literature, the CBCA Awards, the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards, and WAYBRA. Aleesah has written numerous creative fiction and non-fiction titles for the educational and commercial markets including the Space Kids Series, the Super Sloth Series, the Endangered Animal Tales Series, Emerald, The Green Turtle’s Tale, Our Class Tiger, Puggle’s Problem, Warambi, Netball Gems, and the League of Llamas Series. Her 2024 releases include Grace the Amazing, Stella’s Bright Idea, Super Sloth Books 2 and 3, and Coral the Dolphin. She has extensive experience teaching and mentoring both adults and children in the craft of writing and is a regular presenter at schools, festivals, and libraries.
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Website: http://www.aleesahdarlison.com/

Emma Darragh

Fiction
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Emma Darragh lives and works on Dharawal Country. Her novel in stories, Thanks for Having Me, will be published by Joan Press in March, 2024. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong and her thesis, The Short Story Cycle in the Twenty-First Century, received the Examiners’ Commendation for Outstanding Thesis. Her writing has appeared in numerous Australian publications, including Cordite, Westerly, Meniscus, TEXT, and The Big Issue Fiction Edition. Emma is an experienced mentor and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong.
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Website: https://emmadarragh.com/

Danielle de Valera

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Danielle de Valera is an award-winning writer and the author of two novels, MagnifiCat and Those Brisbane Romantics. Her collection of stories, Dropping Out, was a finalist for the Woollahra Digital Literary Award. Her most recent novel Those Brisbane Romantics is listed in Kirkus Reviews’ 100 Best Indie Books of 2022. Formerly an editor for The Jacaranda Press, she taught fiction writing workshops at Byron College and is a member of IPed, the Institute of Professional Editors. She offers a range of manuscript development services and has been helping writers achieve their goals since 1992.
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Website: https://patrickdevalera.com/

Bettina Deda

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Bettina Deda is a content writer with a background in public relations and business management, specialising in architecture, design, construction, and wellness. She is the author of Downsize with Style (self-published in 2014) and Dare to Dance - a midlife memoir, commercially published in 2022. The first chapter of her memoir was also published in The Turning Point (2021) after being successful in a writing competition. She edited the business book Construction Scrum. Bettina offers writing coaching, ghostwriting and editing and helps authors get their business books published through the collaborative initiative WriteTellSell.
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Website: https://bettinadeda.com/

Rosie Dub

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Dr Rosie Dub is a novelist, Flight, Between Worlds and Gathering Storm, which is being developed as a feature film. Rosie’s short fiction and creative non-fiction articles are published internationally. Her writing, teaching and mentoring are deeply rooted in the role story plays as a vehicle for individual and cultural transformation. This was the subject of her PhD, and her Alchemy of Story newsletter on Substack continues this journey into the heart of story. She also runs a range of Alchemy of Story workshops which fuse big ideas with practical techniques for creating stories that reimagine ourselves and our world.
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Website: https://rosiedub.substack.com/

Angie Faye Martin

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Angie Faye Martin is a writer and editor of Kooma, Kamilaroi and European heritage. Her debut novel, Melaleuca, was published in June 2025. She holds a Bachelor of Public Health from the Queensland University of Technology and a Master of Anthropology from the Australian National University. Angie spent many years working in policy roles across state and federal government before launching Versed Writings in 2019. Her work has been published in Meanjin, Garland, The Saltbush Review and The Rocks Remain. She is a member of the First Nations Australia Writers Network and is accredited with the Institute of Professional Editors.
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Website: https://angiefaye.net/

Anna Featherstone

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Anna Featherstone is often described as a “book fairy godmother”—a mentor, book coach and empowering advocate who helps authors sprinkle creativity, confidence, quality and smart strategy onto their publishing dreams. She’s a Publishing Consultant for the Australian Society of Authors, an Advisor to the global Alliance of Independent Authors and runs workshops for organisations including Writing NSW and Byron Writers Festival. A judge of the Australian Business Book Awards and Australian Society of Travel Writers Awards, she helps authors find solutions and maximise opportunities whether at early manuscript stage right through to publication and book marketing. Anna has written for The Guardian and Sydney Morning Herald and some of her books include: Look-It's Your Book!: Write, publish and promote your non-fiction book a self-publishing guide for Australian authors; Honey Farm Dreaming: A memoir about sustainability, small farming and the not-so-simple life; Small Farm Success Australia: How to make a life and a living on the land; and Honeycomb Kids: Big picture parenting for a changing world and to change the world. Contact Anna through her website.
Website: https://annafeatherstone.com

Robyn Ferrel

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Dr Robyn Ferrell is a writer and researcher, currently attached in cultural studies at the University of Sydney. She has taught art history and theory, cultural studies, philosophy and creative writing at several universities throughout Australia. She trained as a journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald before completing her doctorate in philosophy and aesthetics. Dr Ferrell has written several books on art and the culture industry, and writes regularly for newspapers and magazines.
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Website: http://amazon.com/author/robynferrell

Lauren Finger

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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
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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
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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/

Jodi Gibson

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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/

Irma Gold

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Irma Gold is an author, editor and podcaster. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Breaking and Shift, a short fiction collection, Two Steps Forward, and six children’s books. Irma is a freelance book editor for both publishers and individuals, and for a decade was Convener of Editing at the University of Canberra. She is the founder and co-host of the writing podcast Secrets from the Green Room. She works with writers on fiction (excluding speculative) and non-fiction for adults and children (picture books to YA). She has extensive experience working with First Nations authors and illustrators.
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Website: https://irmagold.com/

Chloé Grabham

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Chloé Grabham is a writer with over a decade of experience crafting content for print, digital and broadcast media. Her work includes published feature articles for the Blue Mountains Tourism Magazine and MTNS MADE magazine, as well as scriptwriting for SBS television commercials. With a background in photography and marketing, Chloé specialises in storytelling that is grounded, sensory and purposeful. She works across blog writing, brand content, and editorial, with a focus on creative businesses, tourism and the arts. Her writing brings local stories to life and helps businesses connect with their audience in meaningful, down-to-earth ways.
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Website: http://www.clovarcreative.com/

Maggie Hamilton

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Writer, social researcher, former publisher Maggie Hamilton gives frequent talks and lectures; is a media commentator and keen observer of trends. She’s held a number of senior roles in publishing and at the ABC, and is the former publisher of the Inspired Living imprint for Allen & Unwin publishers. Maggie's books have been published in over a dozen countries worldwide. Maggie’s passion is people, understanding why we do what we do, how we can create a better tomorrow.
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Website: http://www.maggiehamilton.org/

Georgina Hibberd

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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/
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