Dani Vee works at Larrikin House in publicity and acquisitions. She works directly with the publisher to assess submissions and offers manuscript assessments. Dani is host of the popular literary podcast Words & Nerds. Her debut picture book My EXTRAordinary Mum will be released in August. She has also signed a six-book deal for a […]

Clare Hallifax is the publisher at Walker Books Australia. Prior to joining Walker, she spent almost 12 years at Scholastic Australia, as publisher of Omnibus Books, Scholastic’s literary imprint, and also as managing editor and publishing manager in the publishing division.  

Charmaine Ledden-Lewis is a proud Bundjalung woman, and award-winning artist and illustrator, living on Dharug & Gundungurra Country in the Blue Mountains, NSW. She has produced children’s books with authors such as Bruce Pascoe and Cathy Freeman, and continues to share her visual storytelling with more books coming in the near future. Instagram

Ali Gray grew up in regional South Australia and after a 30-year banking career in Sydney and New York turned her focus to her passion: thinking. She set about introducing some of the great thinkers from the past to kids through exciting time travel adventure stories. She is a self-published author and now resides on […]

Dr Betty O’Neill is a Sydney-based author and educator with a lively curiosity and passion for family history. She is a lecturer in Creative Intelligence at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a past Director on the Board of the Society of Australian Genealogists. She has appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? and […]

Julie Janson’s career as a playwright began when she wrote and directed plays in remote Australian Northern Territory Aboriginal communities. She is now a novelist and award-winning poet. Julie is a Burruberongal woman of Darug Aboriginal Nation. She was co-recipient of the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize 2016 and winner of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize […]

Larissa Behrendt is the author of three novels: Home, which won the 2002 David Unaipon Award and the regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book; Legacy, which won the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing; and After Story. She has published numerous books on Indigenous legal issues; her most recent non-fiction book is […]

Judi Morison has Gamilaroi and Celtic heritage and lives on Wadi Wadi country. A member of the Ngana Barangarai (Black Wallaby) Indigenous Literary Project and editorial assistant for Dreaming Inside: Voices from Junee Correctional Centre, she led South Coast Writers Centre’s 2021 Emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers Mentoring Program. Morison’s writing has been […]

Alison (Ali) Murphy-Oates is a Ngiyampaa Wailwan woman (Central-West New South Wales) who was born and raised on Darkinjung land (Central Coast New South Wales) and is based on Gadigal & Bidjigal (Sydney). Ali is Managing Director at Moogahlin Performing Arts, working alongside a team to develop, produce, and present distinctive, culturally immersive, and interdisciplinary […]