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Send us Fan Mail Kat Richardson is a Tasmanian writer, illustrator and editor. Kat’s creative life started in a small country town, surrounded by books, animals, magic and a handful of brilliant teachers who made space for storytelling. She spent her childhood filling notebooks with sentences and scribbles, and daydreaming about making books and says she hasn’t really stopped. These days she helps...

Send us Fan Mail Kylie Howarth is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator from Perth. She was raised in the country alongside her brother, dog, sheep, several orphaned kangaroos and one very cheeky echidna.   Kylie’s obsession with animals also extends underwater as she has braved lionfish in Egypt, piranha and pink dolphins in the Amazon, marine iguanas and hammerhead sharks in th...

Send us Fan Mail Leanne White is an accomplished artist, children’s book author, illustrator, publisher and visual arts educator who teaches painting and drawing to children and adults. She believes everyone can create, they just need the freedom to know they can. Leanne’s own paintings and drawings are often studies of wildlife in their natural habitat and wild creatures, wild spaces and places a...

Send us Fan Mail Tenille Seow is an Australian author passionate about creating accessible fantasy stories for younger readers. When Tenille picked up a popular young adult fantasy novel in 2023, she expected to be swept into the story. Instead, she found herself struggling with difficult character names, strong language, and mature content that didn’t feel appropriate for younger readers. That mo...

Send us Fan Mail Kate Searle is an author, mum and geologist from Quindalup in the south west of Western Australia. Kate’s books, My Soul Treasure and Find Your Treasure , encourage young readers to visualise their inner strengths as precious gemstones in the treasure chest of their souls. Kate is passionate about inspiring children to connect with their inner strengths and creativity.  In this ep...

Send us Fan Mail Author Brendan Colley was born in South Africa, and made Tasmania his home in 2009. His first novel, The Signal Line, won the Unpublished Manuscript Prize in the 2019 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Awards, and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and The Age Book of the Year Awards. his second novel The Season for Flying Saucers was released recently.  In this...

Send us Fan Mail Kez Wickham-St George is an artist, author, mentor and public speaker with a passion for personal development and a commitment to supporting people from diverse backgrounds on their own creative journey. Kez is widely travelled and draws strongly on this experience in her writing. She is the author of 14 books, writes for a range of international magazines and has co-hosted progra...

Send us Fan Mail Maura Pierlot is an international award-winning author, playwright and filmmaker who creates across art forms for children and adults. Her work typically has an existential bent, exploring the nature of self, belonging, identity and ethics– perhaps not surprising for someone with a Ph. D.in philosophy.  Maura is actively embedded in community initiatives, running The Book Bench Pr...

Send us Fan Mail Kellie Coff, writing as Lellie Lopter, is an international award-winning children’s author, illustrator, and creator who isn’t afraid to write about big feelings and tricky topics.  Her stories encourage children to think big, to feel deep, and to laugh out loud. She champions children’s literacy through her free little libraries project, the Author Pen Pals program, the PLCC Auth...

Send us Fan Mail Sharon Giltrow is an award-winning author of humorous and heartfelt picture books and speculative, adventure-filled middle grade books.  Sharon grew up in South Australia, the youngest of eight children in a one-hundred-year-old farmhouse, which she turned into a library filled with books written by other people.  She now lives in Western Australia with her husband and two childre...

Send us Fan Mail Liv Lorkin is a heart-led children's book author, illustrator and visual storyteller. Since packing books underneath her bed as a child, she’s loved reading, writing and colouring outside the lines. With a blended background in science and a career in design, she creates thoughtful stories that spread messages of hope and joy.   When not immersed in illustrating, she can be f...

Send us Fan Mail Alan Fyfe is a maker of stories and poems who lives on unceded Noongar country. Alan’s poetry and prose fiction has received recognition with a number of awards and listings in Australia and internationally. His latest release, The Cross Thieves, is the second part of a trilogy centred around The Peel Region and concerning housing instability and homelessness.  In this episode of...

Send us Fan Mail Brenton Cullen is a Queensland writer, bookseller and passionate advocate for children’s literature. He writes stories from the heart for all ages, with a particular love for picture books and middle-grade fiction. He has written articles, interviewed authors and reviewed children’s books. His debut middle-grade novel The Prime Minister Problem is released in April by Riveted Pres...

Send us Fan Mail Marlene Rattigan is an early childhood teacher with an extensive background in music. She’s the author of the kidz-fiz-biz series of music and movement books and has conducted training workshops for teachers, children, and parents at schools, in the community, at festivals, and at conferences throughout Australia and overseas. Her vision is to see children all over the world learn...

Send us Fan Mail Christine Read found circle dance about 22 years ago and has been teaching for the past 18 years. Her love for this form of dance turned her into a dancing nomad and led to major lifestyle changes. In 2016 she retired from paid employment, sold her rural property and spent the better part of the next few years travelling to Europe and the UK to attend workshops and retreats with s...

Send us Fan Mail Michelle Worthington is an International award-winning author, scriptwriter, playwright and producer. Michelle has twice taken out the International Book Award and been shortlisted for the Australian Speech Pathology Award. In 2018 she received the AusMumPreneur Gold award for Business Excellence and the Redlands BaR award for Best Start Up Business.  Her scripts have been finalis...

Send us Fan Mail Award-winning author Dianne Wolfer is a bookworm who reads and writes every day and can’t imagine a world without books. Dianne writes across genres, from picture books for pre-schoolers to fantasy novels for young adults, and historical fiction for all ages.  Her stories are about different cultures, the environment, friendship, being brave, turns in the road and taking chances....

Send us Fan Mail Children’s author and poet Renae Hayward was born during a cyclone in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, but grew up by the beaches of Perth’s northern suburbs. Renae now lives near Fremantle with her author/illustrator husband James, their two children and Frankie the Labrador in a house overflowing with books. When she’s not writing, Renae is a passionate advocate for early lit...

Send us Fan Mail Carolyn Wren was born in London and lives in Western Australia with a husband she adores and a very neurotic cat named Lucky.  Carolyn doesn’t like to limit herself to one genre, preferring to let her characters take control. The resulting stories can range from light-hearted comedic contemporary through to action packed romantic suspense and emotion driven urban fantasy. Because...

Send us Fan Mail Stephen Crabbe’s ancestors were among the first colonists of South Australia, where he lived for most of his life. From his earliest years he loved language and music in many forms, and this led to formal study and qualifications in both. He was also active in a variety of sports. When Stephen took up education as a profession, it was no surprise to anyone that he often specialise...

Send us Fan Mail Kym Langfield is an author, illustrator, teacher and counsellor. She has illustrated a range of picture books, including my picture book Solo Dan about a foster child finding his forever home. Her artwork, stories and poems have featured in anthologies and her growing list of publications includes a novella for children. This year marks the start of an exciting new creative ventur...

Send us Fan Mail Juliet Marillier is an award-winning historical fantasy author who grew up surrounded by Celtic music and stories. Her own Celtic-Gaelic roots inspired her to write her first series, the Sevenwaters Trilogy, a reimagining of The Six Swans fairy tale. Juliet has been a full-time writer for more than 20 years and her work is published internationally. Her lifelong interest in histor...

Send us Fan Mail Deb Fitzpatrick writes books for readers of all ages, especially adventurous kids with big hearts. Her books have received awards in Australia, been published in the US and optioned for film. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, and loves encouraging young writers in her creative writing workshops. Deb enjoys hiking and bushwalking with her family. When she can, she sneaks a...

Send us Fan Mail Melissa Min is one of Western Australia’s most prominent professional Storytellers. She is a published poet, author, and psychotherapist who works with language, myth and story to evoke a deep sense of connection and belonging. Melissa is a passionate advocate for bringing creative and artistic practices to community spaces. She facilitates Storytelling Circles, Poetry Workshops,...

Send us Fan Mail Libby Iriks fell in love with story as an eight-year-old when her teacher read Charlotte’s Web to the class. She developed a fondness for the romance genre soon after, and in 2018, combined her passions when she became the Commissioning Editor of Romance for a boutique publishing house in the UK. Since receiving her autism diagnosis at the ripe old age of 42, she has come to under...