Writers & Presenters

Meet the writers and thinkers that make up our powerful and inspiring line-up of more than 150 Australian and international speakers spanning fiction, memoir, crime, environment, society, politics, poetry, art, comedy and music.
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Alex Adsett

Alex Adsett is a literary agent and publishing consultant with over 25 years' experience and has helped thousands of authors review and negotiate their publishing deals.
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Graham Akhurst

Graham Akhurst is an Aboriginal writer and academic from the Kokomini of Northern Queensland. He is the author of Borderland.
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Sarah Armstrong

Sarah Armstrong has written five novels including Salt Rain, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, and most recently two novels for young readers, Big Magic and Magic Awry.
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Julia Baird

Julia Baird is a Sydney-based author and journalist. Her latest book, Bright Shining, was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
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Tim Baker

Tim Baker is the bestselling author of Bustin’ Down the Door, High Surf, Occy, Surf for Your Life (with Mick Fanning), Surfari and Century of Surf. His latest book is Patting the Shark.
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Emilie Zoey Baker

Emilie Zoey Baker is an award-winning Australian poet, educator, slam nerd and spoken-word performer. Her poetry has been published widely in Australia and internationally.
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Ella Noah Bancroft

Ella Noah Bancroft is a proud Bundjalung woman whose life as a queer Indigenous woman frames her perspective on the world, as she lives between two worlds often.
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Eric Beecher

Eric Beecher has had a long career in journalism, media and publishing. He is the chair and the largest shareholder in Private Media, owner of Crikey. He is the author of The Men Who Killed the News.
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Wayne Bergmann

Wayne Bergmann is a leading advocate for Indigenous self-determination and was Executive Director of the Kimberley Aboriginal Law & Culture Centre. He is the author of Some People Want To Shoot Me.
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Lech Blaine

Lech Blaine is the author of Car Crash: A Memoir and two recent Quarterly Essays: Top Blokes and Bad Cop. He is the 2023 Charles Perkins Centre writer in residence.
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James Bradley

James Bradley is an award-winning novelist and essayist. His novels and stories have won or been shortlisted for a range of literary awards. His latest book is Deep Water: The World in the Ocean.
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Bob Brown

Bob Brown’s list of book titles is as long as his list of arrests for environmental action. His most recent book, Thera, is his first work of fiction.
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Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown is known as an actor, having appeared in over eighty film and television shows. The Drowning is his second book.
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Daniel Browning

Daniel Browning is a Bundjalung and Kullilli writer and broadcaster. His first book, Close to the Subject: Selected Works, won the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing.
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Nick Bryant

Nick Bryant, a former BBC Washington correspondent, is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. His new book is The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict With Itself.
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Jennifer Byrne

Jennifer Byrne is a celebrated Australian journalist, editor, Logie-winning presenter, former book publisher and host of ABC’s The Book Club.
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Imogen Carn

Imogen Carn is the co-creator of the popular podcast Good Mourning and co-author of Good Mourning: Honest conversations about grief and loss.
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Peter Carnavas

Peter Carnavas creates books for children. He has made many picture books and well-awarded novels. His latest book is Leo and Ralph.

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Kate Ceberano

Kate Ceberano AM is a creative powerhouse and the voice of a generation. Her book, Unsung, is an illustrated memoir featuring her song lyrics, stories, paintings, quilts and other artworks.
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Lucy Clark

Lucy Clark is features editor of Guardian Australia. She is a journalist of 40 years experience, and author of Beautiful Failures: How the Quest for Success is Harming our Kids.

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Alan Close

Alan Close works across the written word as a writer, editor, mentor and teacher. His memoir is Before You Met Me: A Memoir Of One Man’s Troubled Search For Love.

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Ali Cobby Eckermann

Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara poet residing on Ngadjuri country. Her latest collection, She is the Earth, won Book of the Year at the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

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Nadine J Cohen

Nadine J Cohen is a Sydney-based writer and refugee advocate with bylines in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and ABC. Her debut novel is Everyone and Everything.

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Matthew Condon

Matthew Condon is an award-winning journalist and the author of more than 15 works of both fiction and non-fiction. He is currently a senior writer and podcaster for The Australian.

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Carody Culver

Carody Culver is the editor of Griffith Review. Her chapbook, The Morgue I Think the Deader it Gets, was published in 2022.

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Megan Daley

Megan Daley is an award-winning Teacher Librarian. Megan is the author of the bestselling book Raising Readers as well as Teacher, Teacher and The Beehive
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Trent Dalton

Trent Dalton is a two-time Walkley Award winning journalist and the international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Skies, Love Stories and Lola in the Mirror.
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Chris Dewhirst

Chris Dewhirst is an educator and extreme adventurer, who has climbed El Capitan, kayaked the Franklin River and flown a balloon over Mt Everest. He is the author of Everest, Guns & Money.
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Madelaine Dickie

Madelaine Dickie is the author of Troppo, Red Can Origami and co-author of Some People Want to Shoot Me. She currently lives in the remote Aboriginal community of Maningrida in Arnhem Land.
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Sally Douglas

Sally Douglas is an author, grief educator and co-host of the Good Mourning podcast. Her new co-authored book is Good Mourning: Honest conversations about grief and loss.
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Merinda Dutton

Merinda Dutton is a Gumbaynggirr and Barkindji woman, emerging writer, First Nations critic, and the co-founder of Blackfulla Bookclub, an online community for First Nations stories.
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Jill Eddington

Jill Eddington is an avid reader and lover of Australian writing. She is a former festival director, publisher and Director of Literature at Creative Australia.
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Anna Featherstone

Anna Featherstone writes niche books about subjects she loves: sustainability, bees and books! She mentors writers, founded Bold Authors, and is an advisor to the Alliance of Independent Authors.
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Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’. He won the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. His most recent book is Question 7.
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Candice Fox

Candice Fox is the author of ten internationally bestselling crime novels and the winner of three prestigious Ned Kelly Awards. Her latest book is Devil’s Kitchen.
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Jan Fran

Jan Fran is a Walkley-award-winning journalist, TV presenter and social commentator. She is the co-host of ABC’s Question Everything and is well known for her work on The Project and The Feed.

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Suzy Freeman-Greene

Suzy Freeman-Greene is the Books & Ideas editor of The Conversation. A former features editor and op-ed columnist at The Age, her writing has been published widely.
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Kate Fullagar

Kate Fullagar FAHA is Professor of History at Australian Catholic University. Her most recent book is Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled.
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Joëlle Gergis

Joëlle Gergis is an award-winning climate scientist and writer. She is the author of the Quarterly Essay Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia’s Future.
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Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for more than forty years and published more than fifty books. His latest is the memoir, My Brother Jaz.
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Shahar Hameiri

Shahar Hameiri is a Professor of International Politics. His most recent coauthored books are Fractured China and The Locked-Up Country.
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Clive Hamilton

Clive Hamilton is a Professor of Public Ethics and best-selling author. His two new co-authored books are Living Hot: Surviving and thriving on a heating planet, and The Privileged Few.
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Chris Hanley

Chris Hanley OAM is the founder of Byron Writers Festival and was Chair for 20 years until 2016. He is the CEO of First National Byron.
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Dylin Hardcastle

Dylin Hardcastle is an award-winning author, artist, screenwriter and former Provost’s Scholar at the University of Oxford. Their new book is A Language of Limbs.
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Marieke Hardy

Marieke Hardy is a screenwriter, political pundit, playwright, podcast host and author. Her comedy series, Laid, is currently being shot in the US. She is co-producer of Better Off Said.
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Steph Harmon

Steph Harmon is the culture editor of Guardian Australia. She was the founding editor of youth pop culture site Junkee.com, and the editor of the Brag.
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Jane Harper

Jane Harper is the internationally best-selling author of Australian mysteries including The Dry and most recently, Exiles.
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Daniel Harrison

Associate Professor Daniel Harrison from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Southern Cross University holds a Masters in Engineering (Oceanography) and PhD (Biological Oceanography).
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Jane Harrison

Jane Harrison’s (Muruwari) award-winning plays are Stolen, Rainbow’s End and The Visitors. Her novels are Becoming Kirrali Lewis and The Visitors. She is the Director of Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival.
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Lyn Harwood

Lyn has worked as a teacher, dancer, editor, publisher and artist. She is a director at Black Duck Foods, promoting Indigenous food agriculture. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra is her new book with Bruce Pascoe.
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Ashley Hay

Ashley Hay is an award-winning novelist and essayist. A former editor of Griffith Review, she also works as a journalist, mentor and facilitator.
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K.J. Hayward

K.J. Hayward is a young slam poet, home schooler and Traveller. She is the APS Youth Champion and advocates for feminism, education and youth.
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David Heilpern

Associate Professor David Heilpern has authored four published books and many journal articles on legal issues. He is Dean of Law at Southern Cross University and a prize-winning writer, columnist and poet.
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Nicolla Hemi-Morehouse

Born in Aotearoa, Nicolla HemiMorehouse performs as Miss Nicky Says, an award-winning children’s artist with a YouTube channel celebrating over 1 million views.
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Annabelle Hickson

Annabelle Hickson is a writer and photographer, who started her career as a news reporter for The Australian in Sydney and Brisbane. She is the editor of Galah.
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Sue Higginson

Sue Higginson is an environmental justice warrior. Now, as Greens MP she is working to get action on the climate and extinction crises in the NSW Parliament.
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Lex Hirst

Lex Hirst is Publishing Director at fast growing independent Australian book publisher, Pantera Press – a publisher of socially driven, culturally vital books.
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Rebekah Holt

Rebekah Holt is a journalist and writer, who regularly gained access to and wrote about Australia’s onshore detention centres.
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Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes is the award-winning author of The Wild Laughter and Orchid & the Wasp. Her latest novel is The Alternatives.
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Rebecca Huntley

Rebecca Huntley is a social researcher and author. Her latest book Sassafras: on love, loss and MDMA is a memoir.
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Zacharey Jane

Zacharey Jane is the author of The Lifeboat, Tobias Blow, Frank Diamond and Amelia Will Go. In 2023 she was an Australian Poetry Slam grand-finalist. Zacharey is also a teacher and artist.
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Annika Johansson

Annika Johansson is a freelance writer living in the rainforests on Bundjalung land (the Northern Rivers of NSW). Downstream is her debut novel.
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Marina Kamenev

Marina Kamenev is the former deputy arts editor of the Moscow Times and has been published in the Atlantic, Time, Sunday Life, The Monthly and Marie Claire. Kin is her new book.
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Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy is a poet and writer based in India. Her extensive corpus includes two poetry collections and three novels. Her latest book is Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis

Kon Karapanagiotidis is the CEO and Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. His latest book, co-authored with his mum, is A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia.
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Yumna Kassab

Yumna Kassab is the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature and author of The House of Youssef, Australiana and The Lovers. Her latest book is Politica.
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Delta Kay

Delta Kay is an Arakwal Bumberbin Bundjalung woman, proud mother and grandmother passionate about sharing culture and protecting Country.
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Meg Keneally

Meg Keneally is the author of many books, and co-author with Tom Keneally of The Soldier’s Curse and three other books in the Monsarrat series. Free is her latest novel.
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Kay Kerr

Kay Kerr is an autistic author and journalist whose work explores the wide range of autistic experiences. Her latest book is Love & Autism.
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Misha Ketchell

Misha is Editor and Executive Director of The Conversation Australia and New Zealand. He has been a journalist for more than 25 years. He was founding editor of The Big Issue Australia.
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Mitch King

Mitch King is a Yaegl Bundjalung man from the Far North Coast region of NSW. He is a creative producer specialising in hip hop music and dance.
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Kris Kneen

Kris Kneen is the award-winning author of fiction, poetry and non-fiction including Fat Girl Dancing which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
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Haruko Koga

Haruko Koga is an emerging writer from Japan. She has been a translator, a writer specialising in TV drama novelisations and is now working on her first novel.
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Royce Kurmelovs

Royce Kurmelovs is a journalist and author. His books include The Death of Holden, Rogue Nation, Boom and Bust and Just Money. His fifth book is Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil.
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Nam Le

Nam Le is the author of The Boat, On David Malouf and 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem. He has received major awards in Australia, America and Europe.
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Cheryl Leavy

Cheryl Leavy is from the Kooma and Nguri Nations in western and central Queensland. A poet, Cheryl was the winner of the 2022 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize. Her latest book is Yanga Mother.
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Bri Lee

Bri Lee is the multi-award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, Beauty and Who Gets to Be Smart. The Work is Bri’s debut novel.
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Luka Lesson

Luka Lesson is a poet, rapper and artist of Greek heritage, born in Brisbane. His work crosses between the history of his family homeland, the fiercely political and the vulnerably self-reflective.
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David Lindenmayer

Professor David Lindenmayer AO is a world-leading expert on forest conservation. He is the author of 49 books on forests, including The Great Forest and Forest Wars.
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Julian Louis

Julian Louis is a theatre-maker and is the Artistic Director of NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts), based in Lismore.
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Zanni Louise

Zanni Louise is an internationally published author of over 40 kid’s books. Her latest release is Cora Seen and Heard.
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Amy Lovat

Amy Lovat is the author of Mistakes and Other Lovers and the current program manager of the Newcastle Writers Festival.
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Grace Lucas-Pennington

Grace Lucas-Pennington is a Bundjalung/ European mentor, editor and writer. She grew up mostly between northern NSW and the greater Logan/Brisbane area.
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Melissa Lucashenko

Melissa Lucashenko is a multi-award winning Goorie novelist from Brisbane. Her latest novel is Edenglassie.
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John Lyons

John Lyons is a four-time Walkley winner and the ABC Global Affairs Editor. He has worked at The Australian, SMH, Nine Network and ABC. His latest book is Balcony Over Jerusalem, re-issued in 2024.
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David Marr

David Marr is a journalist, commentator and biographer whose latest book is Killing for Country, a personal reckoning with Australia’s frontier wars.
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Walter Marsh

Walter Marsh is an award-winning journalist, critic and the author of Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire.
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Caitlin Marshall

Caitlin Marshall is co-founder of MakeShift, providing trauma-informed creativity and mental health programs. She is a social worker and trainer in vicarious trauma management and gendered violence.
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William McInnes

William McInnes is one of Australia’s most popular writers and actors. His books include the bestselling memoirs A Man’s Got to Have a Hobby and That’d Be Right. His latest is Yeah, Nah!
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Laura Jean McKay

Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award and The Victorian Prize for Literature. Laura’s latest collection is Gunflower.
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Dinuka McKenzie

Dinuka McKenzie is the author of the Detective Kate Miles crime series, The Torrent, Taken and her latest release, Tipping Point.
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Amy McQuire

Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist, writer, academic and podcaster. Her new book is Black Witness.
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Suzie Miller

Suzie Miller is an Australian contemporary, international playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Prima Facie is her first novel.
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Courtney Miller

Courtney Miller has a varied career across politics, art and fashion and currently heads up a philanthropic foundation focused on the next generation.
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Louise Milligan

Louise Milligan is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist and the author of two best-selling non-fiction books. Pheasants Nest is her first novel.
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Rosemarie Milsom

Rosemarie Milsom is the founding director of Newcastle Writers Festival, which is in its 12th year. She is a former award winning print journalist with Fairfax Media and broadcaster with the ABC.
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Jim Moginie

Jim Moginie is best known as founding member, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player of Midnight Oil. He has also worked as a producer and composer. His memoir is The Silver River.
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Jazz Money

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose practice is centred around poetics. Mark the Dawn is their second collection.
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Naomi Moran

Naomi Moran is a Nyangbal, Arakwal and Dunghutti woman from New South Wales, and is the General Manager of Australia’s only independent Indigenous newspaper, the Koori Mail.
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Jessica Mudditt

Jessica Mudditt is the author of two memoirs, Our Home in Myanmar and Once Around the Sun - From Cambodia to Tibet. She is also the founder of hybrid publisher, Hembury Books, and a former journalist with bylines in Forbes, CNN and the BBC.
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Priya Nadesalingam

Priya Nadesalingam is a wife, mother, former Tamil asylum seeker, and co-author of the book Home to Biloela.
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Claire Nichols

Claire Nichols is the host of The Book Show on ABC Radio National, a weekly podcast and radio show that features in-depth interviews with the best authors from around the world.
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Mandy Nolan

Mandy Nolan is a stand-up comedian, feminist, activist, mother of five, author and Greens candidate in Richmond. She wants to change the world by changing minds – one joke at a time.
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Lynette Noni

Lynette Noni is the #1 bestselling and award-winning author of The Prison Healer series, The Medoran Chronicles, and the Whisper duology.
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Chigozie Obioma

Chigozie Obioma was born in Nigeria. His novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities were shortlisted for The Booker Prize. His latest book is The Road to the Country.
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Brigitta Olubas

Brigitta Olubas is the author of Shirley Hazzard: A writing life. She has recently co-edited with Susan Wyndham the letters of Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower.
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Kerry O’Brien

Kerry O’Brien is one of Australia’s most respected journalists with six Walkley Awards. Kerry co-wrote the ABIA Book of the Year, The Voice to Parliament Handbook, with Thomas Mayo.
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Mick O’Regan

Mick O’Regan is a journalist and broadcaster with more than two decades experience with the ABC and Seven Network.
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Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe is a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man who lives on Country. A prolific writer, Bruce is the author of over 20 books, including bestseller Dark Emu. His latest is Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra.
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Rhianna Patrick

Rhianna Patrick is a Torres Strait Islander media professional with over twenty years experience working across radio, TV, news and current affairs.
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Sarah Percy

Sarah Percy is a writer and broadcaster and Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Queensland. Forgotten Warriors is her new book.
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Ailsa Piper

Ailsa Piper has written three memoirs. Her most recent, For Life, is an unflinching look at grief and celebration of renewal and wonder.
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Victoria Purman

Victoria Purman is a bestselling Australian historical fiction author, workshop presenter and mentor. The Radio Hour is out now.
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Sana Qadar

Sana Qadar is the award-winning host and producer of All in the Mind. She has previously reported and produced for ABC News and ABC Everyday.
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Isabelle Reinecke

Isabelle Reinecke is an expert in the intersection of the law, politics and power. Her first book is Courting Power: Law, Democracy and the Public Interest in Australia.
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Rhoda Roberts

Rhoda Roberts AO is a Bundjalung woman from northern New South Wales, and a producer, director, writer, broadcaster, performer and arts executive.
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Jodi Rodgers

Jodi Rodgers is a sexologist, counsellor and special education teacher, who featured on ABC and Netflix’s Love on the Spectrum. Unique is her first book.
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David Roland

Dr David Roland is a psychologist, writer, researcher and forest bathing guide drawing on lived experience as well as his professional training. He has a BSc (Hons) in psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology.
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Lizzie Rose

Lizzie Rose is co-founder of MakeShift, providing trauma-informed creativity and mental health programs. She is a community development practitioner, sustainability educator and qualified yoga teacher.
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Sara M Saleh

Sara M Saleh is a writer, human rights lawyer and daughter of Palestinian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants. Songs for the Dead and Living and The Flirtation of Girls are her first novel and collection.
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Sarah Sasson

Sarah Sasson is a physician-writer, whose work has been published in Meanjin and Kill Your Darlings, among other places. Tidelines is her first novel.
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Mykaela Saunders

Mykaela Saunders is the award-winning author of Always Will Be, and the editor of This All Come Back Now. Mykaela belongs to the Tweed Goori community.
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Molly Schmidt

Molly Schmidt is a writer and journalist. Salt River Road is her award-winning debut novel. She’s now writing a biography celebrating the stories of the Traditional Custodians of her hometown.
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Nell Schofield

Nell Schofield is a broadcaster with Bay FM and activist who co-hosts the podcast This Week In Cyberspace. She is also a writer, MC, organiser and Community Engagement Officer.
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Julianne Schultz

Julianne Schultz is an acclaimed author of several books, including Reviving the Fourth Estate and Steel City Blues. Her latest is The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation.
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Peter Singer

Peter Singer’s books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, and The Buddhist and the Ethicist. He founded the charity The Life You Can Save and co-hosts Lives Well Lived podcast.
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Nicole Smede

Nicole Smede is an artist of Warrimay/ Birribay and colonial descent. Reconnection to ancestry, language and culture ripples through her work in voice, song, sound and poetry.
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Mary Spongberg

Professor Mary Spongberg is Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research at Southern Cross University. She is a cultural historian. Her recent book is Empathetic History: Women Writers and the Nation’s Past.
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Matt Stanton

Matt Stanton is an award-winning children’s author/illustrator of over 45 books. He has sold more than one million books in Australia. His new book is Fluff, Mess Up!
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Benjamin Stevenson

Benjamin Stevenson is the author of the global bestsellers Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, currently being adapted for television by HBO, and Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect.
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Bridie Tanner

Bridie grew up around the Clarence Valley. She is an op-shop enthusiast, Bulldogs tragic and will always go for an ocean swim no matter how cold. Her favourite books are musical memoirs, and she loves local author Melissa Lukashenko. Bridie is the Breakfast presenter of ABC North Coast.
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Anne-Marie Te Whiu

Anne-Marie Te Whiu is an Australian-born Maori (Te Rarawa) currently living on unceded Wangal lands. She is a poet, editor, weaver and cultural producer. Most recently she has edited Woven.
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Kate & Jol Temple

Kate and Jol Temple are internationally awarded authors of over 26 hilarious books for kids, including Bin Chicken, Frog Squad and The Underdogs.
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Sarah Temporal

Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning poet and director of Poets Out Loud Youth Slam. Her debut collection Tight Bindings explores the stories we tell and the secrets we keep.
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P.A. Thomas

P.A. Thomas lives in the Byron Bay region, the setting for his first novel, The Beacon. He is also a wilderness landscape photographer, and his images have appeared in Australian Geographic.
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Tayi Tibble

Tayi Tibble (Te Whanau a Apanui and Ngati Porou) is a writer and poet. She is the author of Poukahangatus and Rangikura and was the first Maori writer to be published in The New Yorker.
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Steph Tisdell

Steph Tisdell is an actor, writer, comedian and proud Yidinji woman. Her debut novel is The Skin I’m In.
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Jessie Tu

Jessie Tu is a book critic and journalist. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing won the ABIA 2020 Literacy Fiction Book of the Year. The Honeyeater is her second novel.
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Leo Vardiashvili

Leo Vardiashvili is a Georgian-born, UK-based novelist and author of Hard by a Great Forest.
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Karen Viggers

Karen Viggers is the author of five bestselling novels. Sidelines is about junior sport and parents living vicariously through their kids.
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Maggie Walters

Maggie Walters writes about her own mental health diagnosis, challenging stereotypes around dissociation and trauma recovery. Her memoir is Split.
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Rob Waters

Rob Waters is a Gomeroi poet and storyteller. He was the 2023 Australian Poetry Slam Champion.
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Nova Weetman

Award-winning author, Nova Weetman has published 19 books for children and young adults. Her memoir Love, Death & Other Scenes is her first book for adults.
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Lili Wilkinson

Lili Wilkinson is the award-winning author of nineteen books for young people, including A Hunger of Thorns and Deep is the Fen.
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Kim Williams

Kim Williams AM has had a long involvement in the arts, entertainment and media industries. He is the twentieth chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Nicky Winmar

Nicky Winmar is a former AFL player whose stance against a hostile crowd in 1993 became an iconic moment of a proud and defining stand against racism. Nicky Winmar: My Story is his autobiography.
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Charlotte Wood

Charlotte Wood AM is the author of ten books. Her new novel Stone Yard Devotional was preceded by The Luminous Solution.
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Mindy Woods

Mindy Woods is a woman of the Widjabul Wiabul and Nyangbal clans of the Bundjalung, and owner of native ingredient-driven restaurant Karkalla Byron Bay. She is the author of Karkalla at Home.
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Stephen Wyatt

Stephen Wyatt lives in Byron Bay on ten acres of regenerated rainforest with his partner Colleen Ryan. A journalist with the Australian Financial Review and FT, he is the author of Rainforest Warriors.
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Karen Wyld

Karen Wyld is an author living on the coast south of Adelaide. They co-edited The Rocks Remain: Blak Poetry and Story.