Aśka

Aśka is a dynamic visual storyteller, comics maker and a science communicator. As a hugely engaging and popular presenter, she is passionate about visual literacy and believes reading pictures is a superpower. Aśka has published more than ten books and comics and is the recipient of several grants, prizes and fellowships.

A.J. Betts

A.J. Betts is a Fremantle-based author, speaker, teacher, columnist and cyclist. She is the author of six young-adult novels. A.J. has worked in secondary schools as a teacher for over twenty years, and has also taught creative writing in universities. 

Karen Comer

Karen Comer is a writer and freelance editor.  She teaches a ten-month online writing course and presents writing workshops to schools and holiday programs. Karen has
written two verse novels – one for young adults, the other for middle-grade readers. Karen hopes to introduce more readers to the lyrical wonders of verse novels.

Chemutai Glasheen

Chemutai Glasheen is a teacher and sessional academic at Curtin University in Western Australia. Her fiction writing for young people is inspired by her passion for human rights and education. She has written a collection of short stories set in East Africa and holds a PhD in creative writing from Curtin University.

Mark Greenwood

Mark Greenwood is a history hunter. He enjoys searching for lost explorers and glittering treasures, delving into mysteries, and solving famous cold cases. He also has a passion for rocks and minerals, fossils and meteorites. Most of all, he loves sharing his curiosity and the stories he finds. Mark's books have won numerous awards and have taken him on exciting journeys of discovery.

Will Kostakis

Will Kostakis is an award-winning author for young adults. He’s been at it fifteen years, but his mum insists it’s just a phase and any day now, he’ll pursue a real career. Will is an advocate for young readers and writers, and is an ambassador for the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge.

Sally Murphy

Sally Murphy is an Australian author of over 50 children's books. You'll find bits of her buried somewhere in every one of her books. She loves reading, writing, and speaking about reading and writing and she especially loves poetry and verse novels.

Lili Wilkinson

Lili Wilkinson is the award-winning Australian author of eighteen books for children and young adults. Lili has a PhD from the University of Melbourne, and is a passionate advocate for YA and the young people who read it, establishing the Inky Awards at the Centre for Youth Literature, State Library of Victoria.

Michelle Johnston

Dr Michelle Johnston is a consultant Emergency Physician who works at an inner city hospital. Mostly her days consist of trauma and mess. Also, she writes. She believes there is a beating heart of humanity, art, and beauty within the sometimes brutal reality of the Emergency Department, and she has dedicated her career to finding that sweet spot between creativity and critical care medicine.

Josephine Taylor

Josephine Taylor is a writer, editor, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Writing at Edith Cowan University. Her debut novel, Eye of a Rook, was published by Fremantle Press in February 2021 and subsequently shortlisted in the WA Premier’s Book Awards. She began her second novel as an Emerging Writer-in-Residence at Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre in 2022.