Susanne Gervay OAM awarded the Social Justice Literature Award by International Literacy Association writes for all ages, tackling the great issues today – feminism in Shadows of Olive Trees, disability in Butterflies, harmony in Elephants Have Wings, bullying in I Am Jack books, inclusion in Parrot Palace, Heroes of the Secret Underground championing young people, […]

Wendy Fitzgerald is the current vice-president of CBCA NSW Northern Sydney sub-branch. She’s the author of Bollywood Dreams and Indigo solves the Pzulze. Her favourite thing to do is to encourage kids to write their own stories. Wendy knows that these days there are many paths to publication and this opens up exciting possibilities for […]

After twelve years as a bookseller, Garry Evans established the Harbour Publishing House in 2011 fired by the passion to discover and nurture new Australian voices. A champion of diversity in publishing, Garry sees his mandate as to find the voices of tomorrow and to nurture a new generation of Australian storytellers.

Anne Helen Donnelly is a Sydney-based author/illustrator. She has targeted the preschool/kindy market with her Ori Octopus series. The third Ori book is due out in mid-2018 and combines another of Anne’s passions, the care of our environment. She is an engaging children’s presenter, having done 67 events in 2017 and thoroughly enjoys having fun […]

Jacqueline de Rose-Ahern is a Canberra author and recipient of the ACT Writers’ Centre 2017 Anne Edgeworth Fellowship. Her debut picture book, Charlie’s Adventures…in Hawaii, was short-listed for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards and chosen as a finalist in the American Best Book Awards. The second book in the Charlie’s Adventures… […]

Sarah Davis illustrated her first picture book in 2008, and in 2010 she quit her day job and began illustrating books full-time. Since then, she has illustrated 39 books and been short-listed for more than 30 major awards in Australia and New Zealand. Her first book as author/illustrator will be released by HarperCollins in 2019.

Graham Davidson has been a professional creative for over 45 years working as both a visual and commercial artist, and as a writer. Having founded the IF Maitland Writers Festival in 2020, he now runs a small publishing company in the Hunter Valley. Website Instagram

Claire Craig is the children’s publisher at Pan Macmillan Australia. She has also worked at Granta in the UK, HarperCollins Australia and ABC Books.

Tamar Chnorhokian is associate director of Sweatshop. She completed a communications degree in writing and publishing at Western Sydney University in 2004. Her debut novel is The Diet Starts on Monday (Sweatshop 2014). She is the recipient of the 2016 Copyright Agency WestWords Western Sydney Emerging Writers’ Fellowship and is currently developing her second work […]