Tasma Walton

Tasma Walton is a descendent of the Boonwurrung people from the saltwater country around Melbourne. As an award-winning actor, she’s appeared in numerous film and television productions, including Mystery Road, The Twelve, Sweet As, How To Please A Woman, Rake and her breakout role of Dash McKinley in Blue Heelers. Tasma’s first novel, Heartless, was nominated for an ABIA Award, and her children’s series Nerra: Deep Time Traveller was longlisted for the DANZ Children’s Book Award.

Kristy Nita Brown

Kristy Nita Brownʼs debut novel Looking for Lily was shortlisted for the WA Young Readersʼ Book Award and earned second place in the CYA Aspiring Author Competition. With over a decade of teaching experience, Kristy leads creative writing workshops and runs the Book Builders Challenge in schools.

Kristy Nita Brown          Kristy Nita Brown      kristynitabrownbooks

Jon Doust

Jon Doust’s first adult novel, Boy on a Wire (Fremantle Press), was long-listed for the 2010 Miles Franklin. His second, To the Highlands, achieved critical acclaim. And the third in a trilogy called “One Boy’s Journey to Man”, Return Ticket (Fremantle Press), was released in 2020.

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Lisa Ellery

Lisa works as a lawyer in the goldmining city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Her debut crime thriller, Private Prosecution, was published by Fremantle Press in 2021 and her second novel, Hot Ground, set in the WA outback, has just hit the shelves.

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Dawn Farham

Dawn Farnham has published seven novels and numerous short stories based in Singapore and Southeast Asia where she lived for over a decade. Once upon a time she won the Sisters in Crime Australia 'Body in the Library' prize at the Melbourne Scarlet Stiletto Awards. Her debut crime novel, Tokyo Time, published in the US in 2023 received a starred review in the US Publishers' Weekly.

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Mabel Gibson

Mabel Gibson is a twenty-five-year-old Yamitji writer. She grew up in Boorloo (Perth), Kinjarli(Albany), and Jambinu (Geraldton), three vastly different locations with landscapes and climates that all play an important role in Mabel's story.

CryBaby is Mabel's debut book that follows her through all the seasons of life, from the brightest summers to the coldest, darkest winters and all the transitions and rebirths in between.

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Catherine Greer

Catherine Greer is a Canadian-Australian author, copywriter and age-positive advocate who loves to write, teach and inspire. Her writing spans commercial women’s fiction with The Bittersweet Bakery Café, the YA thriller, Love Lie Repeat, non-fiction and picture books. Catherine lives in Sydney with her family and writes a weekly newsletter at catherinegreer.com.au.

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Michael Haluwana

Michael Haluwana is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning Cinematographer and Photographer, specialising in documentary filmmaking, landscape visuals, and wildlife cinematography. His exceptional work has been recognised by prestigious organisations, namely National Geographic, BBC Studios, Australian Antarctic Division, Virgin Galactic Space Program, Sony, Canon, and worked alongside Sir David Attenborough on the acclaimed BBC series Planet Earth II and III.

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Amelia Jajko

Amelia Jajko is a self-taught painter living in Rubibi/Broome, WA. Often taking her box of paints outdoors, she chases the warm northern light as it shifts, exploring themes of interconnectedness and place. Her work has been shown throughout Australia and is held in private and public collections nationally and overseas.

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Stefanie Koens

Stefanie Koens grew up in large family in Perth, reading, writing and dreaming stories. As a teenager she won prizes in the Mary Durack Young Writers Award and later studied English and History at Notre Dame University. Stefanie has worked as a teacher, tutor and office administrator. She loves family history stories that interweave past and present.

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Gillian O'Shaughnessy

Gillian O'Shaughnessy is a writer and journalist from Walyalup, Fremantle. She spent 25 years with the ABC in Perth and is a former curator of Writers' Weekend for Perth Festival. Her short stories have been widely anthologised and featured in the international Best Small Fictions in 2023 and 2024. She's won the London Independent Story Prize for Flash Fiction and the UK Welkin Prize, among others.

Gillian O'Shaughnessy   Gillian O'Shaughnessy   gillianoshaughnessy

Glenn B. Swift

Glenn B. Swift is a Western Australian Storyteller and MC. He has been performing in schools, theatres and festivals in WA since 1988, including most Public Libraries from Albany to Kununurra. He has toured schools in Chile, Peru, Argentina and Uruguay, and in Iceland at the Reykjavik public library, in English!

Glenn Swift   Glenn Swift Storyteller   glenn.swift

Michael Trant

Michael Trant is a WA country boy, dividing his time between Three Springs and Perth after various careers including farmer, marine draftsman, pastoralist and FIFO pot washer. He is the author of Ridgeview Station (2017, A&U), Wild Dogs (2022, PRH), No Trace (2023, PRH), and Blood and Gold (2025, PRH).

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Dave Warner

Dave Warner is an award-winning musician and author of fourteen crime novels and a number of non-fiction titles. Tony Durant is a guitarist/songwriter has perfromed with Dave over 50 years. Dave has also written for film and TV. His latest novel is `Double Exxxpresso' with `Sound Mind and Dead Body' due 2026. 

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