Ingrid Laguna

• Author

Audience:

Primary age, Secondary age, Teachers, Librarians

Home state:

Victoria (VIC)

Ingrid Laguna is a dynamic and engaging author, educator, musician. She lives in Melbourne and teaches English to children and adults from all over the world, many of whom have refugee backgrounds. Songbird is her second book. TALKS AND WORKSHOPS Students will be scaffolded and prompted to explore themes of . . .

Cath Crowley

• Author

Audience:

Primary age, Secondary age

Format:

Talks, Workshops, Professional development

Home state:

Victoria (VIC)

Cath Crowley is an award-winning author of young adult fiction. Her novels include The Gracie Faltrain trilogy, Chasing Charlie Duskin, Graffiti Moon, Words in Deep Blue and Take Three Girls (co-written with Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell). talks and workshops Cath has taught creative writing across Australia and overseas and . . .

Lian Tanner

• Author

Audience:

Primary age, Secondary age, Adults, Teachers

Format:

Talks, Workshops

Home state:

Tasmania (TAS)

Lian writes exciting children’s fantasy adventure novels, including the best-selling Keepers Trilogy and her new series, The Rogues. Lian has been dynamited while scuba diving and arrested while busking. She once spent a week in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, hunting for a Japanese soldier left over from the . . .

Dannika Patterson

• Author

Audience:

Primary age, Pre-school age

Format:

Workshops

Home state:

Queensland (QLD)

Dannika Patterson is a children’s author and copywriting consultant, whose work has been published across a range of traditional and multi-media platforms. With a strong background in content development and marketing, and degrees in Journalism and Child Psychology, Dannika has found the perfect alignment of her talents and passions in . . .

Jo Sandhu

• Author

Audience:

Primary age, Secondary age

Format:

Talks, Workshops

Home state:

Queensland (QLD)

Jo has a passion for creating unlikely heroes, exciting adventures and authentic fantasy worlds. Jo is the author of the Tarin of the Mammoths Series. Book One: The Exile, won the Readings Children’s Book Prize 2018. It is a CBCA Notable Book and Aurealis Finalist for Best Children’s Book. Her . . .

Monique Mulligan

• Author
• Storyteller

Audience:

Primary age, Secondary age, Adults

Format:

Workshops, Presentations

Monique Mulligan is often found with a book in one hand and a bowl of popcorn in the other. She has two published picture books and is currently working on adult contemporary fiction. Monique has a background in early childhood and curriculum writing, as well as in journalism, editing and . . .

Mark Carthew

• Author
• Musician

Audience:

Primary age, Adults, Parents

Format:

Talks, Workshops, Presentations

Home state:

Victoria (VIC)

Mark is an award-winning children’s author, musician, educator and editor, and is well known for his books and series exploring wordplay. His books have involved collaboration with some of the world’s leading authors and illustrators. Mark’s The Gobbling Tree, illustrated by Susy Boyer, won the Speech Pathology Australia’s 2009 Book of . . .

Mark Wilson

• Author
• Illustrator

Audience:

Primary age, Adults

Format:

Talks, Workshops, Presentations

Home state:

Victoria (VIC)

Mark is an internationally acclaimed author and illustrator with 27 children’s books currently in print in Australia, America, Canada, Southeast Asia and Europe. Mark has a passion for Australian history and the environment. His picture books include Angel of Kokoda (2011 CBCA Honor book and 3rd CJ Picture Book Award International, shortlist), Journey of . . .

Stephen Whiteside

• Author
• Musician
• Poet

Audience:

Primary age

Format:

Workshops, Presentations

Home state:

Victoria (VIC)

Stephen offers a 45 – 60 minute performance of poetry and song to a large group of children.

Dee White

• Author

Audience:

Primary age, Secondary age, Tertiary age

Format:

Talks, Workshops

Home state:

Victoria (VIC)

Dee White is the award-winning author of Letters to Leonardo, Hope for Hanna, A Duel of Words and Harry’s Goldfield Adventure.  Her themed workshops for all ages include Heroes & Villains, and From Portrait to Prose (using paintings and photographs as symbols and story devices). Dee can also help students make book trailers, and develop . . .