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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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