ALEESAH DARLISON
Aleesah Darlison is one of Australia’s most popular, award-winning children’s authors.
She has published over 65 books including picture books, chapter books, novels, and series. She is well-known for her stories that champion the cause of animals and the environment and that empower children. BARBARA HANNAY
Barbara Hannay writes women’s fiction with over 12 million books sold world- wide.
Her stories set in Australia have been translated into 26 languages and have been published by Penguin Australia, Harlequin Mills and Boon and Tule USA. She has won the coveted Rita Award from Romance Writers of America and has been short-listed five times. Two of Barbara’s novels have also won the Romance Writers of Australia's best book award. The film and television rights to one of these novels was acquired by leading Canadian studio, Brain Power, and was released internationally in 2020. RICHARD YAXLEY
Richard Yaxley is a Brisbane-based award-winning author.
His novels include Joyous and Moonbeam (2013), This Is My Song (winner of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award; winner of the ACU Book of the Year Award; finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards) and The Happiness Quest, a CBCA Notable for Older Readers. More recent novels are A New Kind Of Everything (2020), Harmony (2021), and Leonardo Forever (2023). Richard is also a past winner of the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Drink the Air (2010). In 2011, he was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia (OAM). LORI-JAY ELLIS
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ALLI SINCLAIR
Alli Sinclair is a multi-award winning and bestselling author, producer and screenwriter whose fact-based fiction explores little-known historical events.
Alli’s latest novel, The Codebreakers, is inspired by the real-life female codebreakers in Brisbane in WWII. This book is being made into a feature film and is also the inspiration for the documentary Red Lipstick Intelligence. Alli also works as a mentor and teaches workshops in Australia and overseas. GENEVE FLYNN
Geneve Flynn is a two-time Bram Stoker-, Shirley Jackson- and Aurealis Award-winning fiction editor, author, and poet.
She has been nominated and shortlisted for the British Fantasy, Ditmar, Australian Shadows, Elgin, and Rhysling Awards, and the Pushcart Prize. She is a recipient of the 2022 Queensland Writers Fellowship. JACK RONEY
After 33 years as a police officer, Jack Roney handed in his badge and gun to focus on being a fulltime crime fiction author.
His novels are inspired by first-hand experience as a patrol officer and detective. He draws on these experiences to bring authenticity and realism to his writing. An early edition of his first novel was shortlisted in the Watpad Awards. He was the runner-up in the Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize which led to a publishing contract. Jack was featured as a guest on the I Catch Killers and Crime Insiders podcasts. He provides one-on-one coaching services to Australian crime writers as well as delivering crime writing workshops. SANDRA MAKARESZ
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