Rochelle Stephens writes under R. A. Stephens. She is published in both educational and trade markets and is the publisher at Wombat Books. Her Riz Chester series included The Fingerprint Code which was shortlisted in the Speech pathology awards (2024).…
Kate Foster is a children’s author writing about friends, family, and dogs. Originally from a small town in the southeast of England, she now lives on the stunning Gold Coast in Australia with her family and second-hand dogs. As an…
Katharine Rogers is a storyteller across multiple mediums. She has written for screen and page. She is the creator of the top-rating ABC podcast Story Salad and director of numerous television promos for ABC 2. She also directed the 20-episode…
Sally Murphy is a West Australian author and poet with a zest for life and a passion for making reading and writing fun. With over fifty books to her name, Sally is perhaps best known for her award winning verse…
Dr Helen Edwards is an award-winning author, speaker and passionate advocate for nature and our children’s wellbeing. Helen grew up surrounded by books. She ‘published’ her first book at age six, for which she won the Children’s Book Week prize…
Pip Harry writes books for children and young adults including The Little Wave, winner of the 2020 CBCA Book of the Year, Because of You, Are You There, Buddha? and August & Jones, shortlisted for the 2023 CBCA Book of the Year and winner of…
Tania Ingram is an internationally published author of children’s picture books, novels and poetry. She has a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and prior to becoming an author, worked as a child psychologist. Her first picture book, Dog on Log…
Alison McLennan is a Brisbane-based children’s author, singer, actress and voiceover artist. She began writing stories when her children were little and is now the published author of several picture books, including Hotel For Bees, Growing Pains, Great and Small…
Josie’s an award-winning author with over 20 years experience and 65 resources internationally published within a variety of genres. She writes under pseudonyms, fiction ‘Montano’ and Autism ‘Santomauro’. Awards include:- Shortlisted ‘Adaptable’ QWC program – Gold Coast Film Festival; The…
Awarded the Lifetime Social Justice Literature Award for her books by the International Literacy Association, nominated for the Astrid Ingrid Memorial Award 2019 and an Order of Australia for children’s literature, Susanne Gervay is recognized for her youth literature from…