Anne Morgan
- Author
- Poet
Anne is an award-winning children’s author, poet and playwright who mostly lives on Bruny Island, Tasmania. Her books include The Smallest Carbon Footprint in the Land, The Sky Dreamer and the Captain Clawbeak series. Anne is a qualified, experienced teacher with a PhD in Writing. talks and workshops Anne has taught from infant to . . .
Carol Ann Martin
- Author
Carol lives in Cygnet, southern Tasmania, and has been published by Omnibus/Scholastic and Penguin Australia. talks and workshops Carol’s sessions are interactive. She reads and tells stories that she invites the children to respond to and discuss. With older children, she brainstorms ideas and the creation of a story. Her . . .
Steve Isham
- Author
- Graphic novelist
- Illustrator
Steve is an author/illustrator and former teacher. Steve collaborates with wife Marion, creating picture books including ‘how-to’ books like Draw Aussie Animals, and, most recently, a graphic novel, Digger’s Code. In his capacity as a writer and illustrator, Steve has visited schools throughout Australia, the USA, Thailand and China. He and his . . .
Christina Booth
- Author
- Illustrator
Christina Booth grew up on the East coast of Tasmania and works in Launceston as an illustrator and writer from her ‘picture book house’ studio. Christina’s books include: Purinina, A Devil’s Tale, Lothian 2007 (CBCA Notable Book 2008); In The Deep Blue Sea, written by Angie Lionetto-Civa, Windy Hollow 2007 (CBCA Notable Book . . .
Kristin Weidenbach
- Author
Kristin Weidenbach writes popular non-fiction focused on Australian history. Her picture books for children include King of the Outback: the story of Sidney Kidman, Meet Banjo Paterson and Tom the Outback Mailman, which won the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Eve Pownall award in 2013. Kristin is the author of the adult titles Growing . . .
Allayne L. Webster
- Author
Allayne is a children’s and YA Author. Her list includes Paper Planes, a Children’s Book Council Notable Book and shortlisted novel for the Adelaide Festival Awards in Literature. She is the recipient of three South Australian arts grants and is a board member of the highly successful Salisbury Writers’ Festival. talks . . .
Lauren Nicolle Taylor
- Author
Lauren is a full-time author who holds a degree in Health Science with Honours in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She has published five internationally bestselling titles, achieved a starred review for her latest book and is currently represented by one of the top literary agencies in the world, The Bent Agency. . . .
Claire Richards
- Animator
- Artist
- Illustrator
Claire is a young cartoonist and illustrator. She has illustrated half a dozen picture books for young children, including Goldilocks and the Three Koalas. She has also illustrated A Little Bit by Peter and Christine Maniaty, which was a CBCA Notable Book. She works mostly in watercolour but also plays with digital art, animation . . .
Heather Taylor Johnson
- Poet
Heather is the author of two poetry collections: Exit Wounds and Letters to my Lover from a Small Mountain Town. She is a poetry editor for Wet Ink magazine and reviews poetry for literary journals in Australia and America. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. talks and workshops Heather . . .
Sally Heinrich
- Author
- Illustrator
Sally has illustrated more than twenty books as well as writing and illustrating her own picture books, novels and a series of information and activity books on various Asian countries. Sally’s work has been recognised through fellowships from the Asialink Foundation, The May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust, Varuna the Writers’ . . .