Cheryl Akle is the founder of Better Reading, Australia’s largest online book community reaching over 500,000 people daily. Passionate about books, she is a strong advocate for Australian authors, a champion of reading and has been a leading figure in the book industry for over 30 years. Using multiple platforms to attract a loyal audience, her […]

Tess Pearson’s poetry, fiction, and microlit can be found in Southerly, Cordite, Rabbit, Scum Mag, and Swamp, among others, as well as a number of anthologies. Tess has been the recipient of a Varuna Fellowship, winner of the 2017 NWF/SW joanne burns Microlit Award, and a selected participant for the 2018 Fiction Edition of Hardcopy: […]

Katherine Collette is a Melbourne-based writer and sewerage engineer. Her first novel, The Helpline, was released in Australia, the UK, North America and Italy. She is currently working on her second novel.

Kate Mildenhall is a writer and teacher. Her debut novel, Skylarking, published in Australia and the UK, was named in Readings bookstore’s Top Ten Fiction Books of 2016 and longlisted for Debut Fiction in The Indie Book Awards 2017 and the 2017 Voss Literary Award.

Tohby Riddle is an internationally known creator of over 20 picture books. He has won or been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards five times and the CBCA Awards eight times, and won awards from the APA for book design. He also spent seven years as an editor at The School Magazine. His latest […]

Dr Sian Prior has been a writer and broadcaster for 25 years. A former ABC Radio presenter, a continuing Fairfax columnist and an award-winning short story writer, her first book, Shy: A memoir was published in 2014. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing, and now teaches non-fiction and feature writing at RMIT University and […]

Wendy James is the author of eight novels, including The Golden Child, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Ned Kelly Award, and the bestselling The Mistake. Her debut novel, Out of the Silence, won the 2006 Ned Kelly Award for first crime novel, and was shortlisted for the Nita May Dobbie Award for women’s writing. […]

Alicia Sometimes is a Melbourne-based writer and broadcaster. She has performed her spoken word writing and poetry at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing, Best Australian Poems, Overland, Southerly, Meanjin, ABC TV’s Sunday Arts and more. She is currently part of the Outer Sanctum podcast (ABC). She is director and co-writer […]

Amanda Hampson is an internationally published, bestselling author of two non-fiction books and five novels The Olive Sisters, Two for the Road, The French Perfumer, The Yellow Villa and Sixty Summers. Amanda created her highly successful Memoir Made Simple workshop eight years ago to share the techniques of fiction writing with people who want to […]