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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...

Send us Fan Mail Stuart Everly-Wilson is an Australian writer living in Bundjalung country in New South Wales with his partner and the ghost of Aspro the dog. His first published work, Low Expectations , was short-listed for the 2022 New South Wales Premier’s Glenda Adams Prize for best new writing and was also long-listed for the Dublin International Literary Prize , 2022. His follow-up novel, Th...

Send us Fan Mail Celia Berrell is an England-born Australian writer and poet who is best known for her Science Rhymes, which have been published by the CSIRO and in textbooks for Australian, Irish and Canadian high school students. Celia taught maths and science for four years before travelling to Australia. She has regarded her life in Australia as a working holiday ever since. She found her voic...

Send us Fan Mail Danni Line has been hooked on reading since childhood and fell in love with writing in her senior year, thanks to a crush on her English teacher. She writes Romantic Suspense and Paranormal Romance where her characters find redemption through romance. When Danni isn’t juggling life as a wife, mum, and wannabe baker who wishes she could sing, she is the Aspiring Authors Ambassador...

Send us Fan Mail Bonnibelle Angelica is a debut author from rural Australia. Growing up with a love for creativity, she has done everything from sculpting to painting to costume design, but nothing has held her attention quite like writing. After a burst of popularity from her online publications, she decided to give a novel a go. Loud and ever-opinionated, she chose dystopian sci-fi as her genre,...

Send us Fan Mail Riley Merigan is a Perth-based performer, actor, dancer and singer who has appeared in a range of community theatre productions since taking a lead role in his high school performance of the musical Grease as a fifteen-year-old. The buzz of performing in that show sparked his love of performance and led to two years full-time study of musical theatre.  In this episode of Not the P...

Send us Fan Mail Holly Cardamone is an award-winning Australian author and communications specialist. Her writing has appeared in publications as diverse as bridal tomes and in fashion magazines, in trade publications and in the large dailies. Her debut novel, Summer, in Between was the 2024 winner of the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize and she has been long and short listed in a n...

Send us Fan Mail Australian author William Lane lives in a quiet, rural corner of the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.  When he is not writing, he loves to read, play vinyl records or make up songs while looking out his window at the Brokenback Range. He has been a teacher, business manager and academic. His sixth novel, Saturation, was released recently.  In this episode of Not the Plot he shares...

Send us Fan Mail Steve Heron is an award-winning children’s book author and champion of wellbeing in children. When he’s not hanging out with the local cheeky magpies, or reminiscing about his puppetry and TV presenter days, he’s crafting stories that touch and tickle the hearts of children.  In this episode of Not the Plot he chats with host Teena Raffa-Mulligan about bully proofing, magpies, art...

Send us Fan Mail Belinda Lyons-Lee is an Australian historical fiction author whose latest novel is a page-turning gothic mystery based on the events that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde . Belinda loves books. Stories. Tales and Adventures. Those that are ‘true’, and those that aren’t. She teaches English, Literature and creative writing in secondary schools and enjo...

Send us Fan Mail Robbie Coburn is an Australian poet and author of the young adult verse novel The Foal in the Wire , released in June by Hachette Australia. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, and he has published four full-length poetry collections. Robbie grew up on a farm in Regional Victoria. He began writing poetry at the age of fourteen and his first publication was...

Send us Fan Mail Lee Battersby is an award-winning author of science fiction, fantasy , and horror fiction . At various times in his life, he has been a stand-up comic, tennis coach, cartoonist, poet, tax officer and an arts and culture coordinator for a local council. Lee admits to an obsession with Lego, Nottingham Forest Football Club, dinosaurs and Daleks. In this episode of Not the Plot he ch...

Send us Fan Mail Tracy Ryan has taught literature, creative writing and film at various universities in Australia and England, and worked as a bookseller, editor and translator. Her poetry has won many awards and she is the author of six critically acclaimed novels. Tracy’s most recent novels focus on the Queens of Navarre. In this Episode of Not the Plot Tracy shares her inspiration behind these...

Send us Fan Mail Jennifer Bagg is an award-winning artist creating work at the intersection of theatre, dance and performance art. She is based between Estonia, the United Kingdom and Australia, and having called multiple cities around the world home, cultural contrast is often the starting point for her work. In this episode of Not the Plot, Jennifer chats with host Teena Raffa-Mulligan about pup...