Lisa Nicol is an internationally published, award-winning writer and documentary-maker. Her feature film Wide Open Sky about a children’s choir won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2015 Sydney Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix. Her first MG novel Dr Boogaloo and The Girl Who Lost Her Laughter is currently being […]

Belinda Murrell is an award-winning, internationally published author who has written more than 35 books including best-selling series The Sun Sword trilogy, Pippa’s Island, Lulu Bell and her time-slip novels such as The Ivory Rose, The Forgotten Pearl, and The Golden Tower. Her latest junior-fiction series is The Daredevil Princess, about a brave princess solving […]

Jaclyn Moriarty is the prize-winning, best-selling author of novels for young adults including the Colours of Madeleine trilogy. The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone, Jaclyn’s first book for middle-grade readers, has been short-listed for the Reading Children’s Book Prize and the Aurealis Awards, and named a CBCA Notable Book.

Marian McGuinness is facilitator of Monday Night Children’s Writers’ Group at Writing NSW and has had multiple publications in The School Magazine; she’s been awarded mentorships with the CBCA and ASA, as well several wins and placements with CYA and FAW. Marian’s travel articles have been published in the major Australian newspapers and magazines, winning […]

Jane McCredie is a writer, journalist and a former book publisher who is now CEO of Writing NSW. She is a former science publisher and a writer and journalist with a special interest in science and medicine. She is the author of Making Girls and Boys: Inside the science of sex and was coeditor of […]

Megan Jacobson is a YA author whose debut novel, Yellow, was short-listed in the Older Readers category of the 2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. Her second novel, The Build-Up Season, is short-listed for the 2018 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature. She has also written for television and has had several short […]

Will Kostakis writes for young adults. First published at nineteen, he is best known for writing whip-smart comedies that break (then mend) hearts. We Could Be Something is his latest novel. It’s a humorous yet heart-rending look at family, fame and falling in love. It won the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult […]

After a successful twenty-year career in education, Jacqueline Harvey is now one of Australia’s most popular authors for children. She has written over 60 books including the bestselling Alice-Miranda, Clementine Rose, Kensy and Max and Willa and Woof series, which have received numerous short-listings and awards and are published internationally. Her picture book The Sound […]

Tim Harris is one of the most exciting children’s authors in Australia. His first book, Exploding Endings: Painted Dogs & Doom Cakes was awarded Honour Book at the 2017 KOALAs. The lead title in his new series, Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables, was listed as a Notable Book by the CBCA in 2018.