These amazing authors will be appearing at our festival and we couldn’t be more chuffed!
Andrea Rowe
Andrea Rowe is an award-winning children’s author, and community story teller. Her best-selling debut children’s book Jetty Jumping (Hardie Grant) won 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the Year
Anson Cameron
Anson Cameron has written six critically acclaimed novels: Silences Long Gone, Tin Toys, Confessing the Blues, Lies I Told About a Girl, Stealing Picasso and
Aunty Loraine Padgham
Loraine is a respected Elder of the Nira balluk clan of the Taungurung Tribe which was originally located around the area now known as Kilmore.
Belinda Crawford
Belinda Crawford is a Mansfield-based author of science fiction and fantasy for readers who like their stories action-packed, with diverse characters, butt-kicking heroines and complex
Dani Vee
Dani Vee is an author, podcaster and works in publicity and acquisitions at Larrikin House. Her picture books include ‘My EXTRAordinary Mum’, and her new
Eliza Henry-Jones
Eliza is an author, freelance writer, and PhD candidate in creative writing. She is the author of three novels and two young adult novels, which
Gabriel Bergmoser
Gabriel Bergmoser is an award-winning Melbourne-based author, playwright and screenwriter. He won the prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award in 2015 and was nominated for
James Layton
James Layton is a publisher, book seller and even wrote a book just to see if he could!(Would You Rather?!) Larrikin House Publisher James Layton
Janine Mikosza
Janine Mikosza is a writer with a background in visual art and a PhD in sociology. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, The
Jock Serong
Jock Serong is the author of six novels, and the founding editor of Great Ocean Quarterly. He is a Director of Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre, and
Justine Sless
Justine Sless is a comedian, author and humour academic, spending over a decade researching, performing, teaching and producing stand-up comedy. Her first book, Mistress of
Lauren Dawes
Lauren Dawes is a USA Today Bestselling Author. She writes dark urban fantasy and paranormal romance, and is the author of the Cat McKenzie series,
Lyn Yeowart
Lyn is a full-time writer and editor. Her debut novel, The Silent Listener, won Australia’s 2022 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction and was shortlisted for 4
Margaret Hickey
Margaret Hickey is an award-winning author and playwright from North East Victoria. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is deeply interested in rural
Mic Looby
Mic Looby is an author, ghostwriter and editor of all kinds. As a co-author, his titles include the myth-busting Australian history book Black Snake: The Real
Peter Coleman
Peter Coleman has a Ph.D in cultural studies from Monash University, where he tutored in Eastern religion and philosophy. After leaving University, he began a
Ryan Butta
Ryan Butta grew up in regional New South Wales. Before he started writing he worked in international trade and has lived and worked extensively overseas.
Sue McDonald
Sue McDonald worked as an operating room nurse and as a Baptist Pastor, before discovering an interest in short story writing. She contributed several pieces