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Heather Millar is a life story writer, biographer and ghostwriter based in Adelaide, South Australia. She is also an accredited editor specialising in memoir. A former managing editor at publishing companies in London and Melbourne and a freelance journalist, Heather has always enjoyed interviewing people and weaving their thoughts and memories together into a coherent […]
Find out more about Heather MillarHeather Taylor-Johnson’s second literary fiction novel, Jean Harley was Here, was short-listed for the Readings Prize for New Fiction, discussed on ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club and reviewed in the New York Times. It’s been optioned for a 7-part TV series, and she’s co-writing the screenplay. Her fifth poetry book will be out in 2021 […]
Find out more about Heather Taylor-JohnsonI live in Adelaide and Deadly Secrets is my debut political thriller novel. I have had short stories published in a UK anthology ‘When Stars Will Shine’ and in the UK Writers’ and Readers’ Magazine. I have a Grad. Cert in creative writing, a Bsc (Chemistry) and a Grad Dip Education. My career spanned roles […]
Find out more about Helmine KempIan Gibbins is a widely published poet, video artist and electronic musician with four collections of poetry, all in collaboration with artists. His video and audio work has featured in gallery exhibitions, public art commissions, performances and international festivals. He previously was a neuroscientist and professor of anatomy.
Find out more about Ian GibbinsJ V Birch is a British-born Australian poet living on Kaurna land in Adelaide, South Australia. Her poems have appeared in a number of anthologies, including Balancing Act and Other Poems (named after her poem), Sentinel Champions, Australian Love Poems, The Emma Press Anthology of Aunts, Australian Poetry Anthology, The Hunter Writers Centre Grieve Anthology and Red Room Poetry’s Writing Water. Her work has […]
Find out more about J V BirchJane Turner Goldsmith’s first novel Poinciana (Wakefield Press 2006) was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Prize in 2007. She has also published a junior novel (Gone Fishing, Macmillan Education, 2005), a non-fiction anthology of adoption stories, (Adopting: Parents’ Stories, Wakefield Press, 2007) short stories, articles and flash pieces, in Overland and The Saltbush Review. Her short […]
Find out more about Jane Turner GoldsmithJaneen is an award-winning children’s author whose work ranges from picture books, junior fiction, nonfiction, novels and poetry. Apart from her 70 + books published in trade and educational, she also writes for children’s magazines in Australia and the USA and has had over 100 stories, poems, articles and plays published. Her poems are included in 14 […]
Find out more about Janeen BrianMy genre is non-fiction, historical horror. In the industry, it’s loosely described as ‘True Crime’ however, that classification suggests the story itself is a crime, so I call mine ‘True Government Crime’. I’ve been publishing since 2005. Since 2006 our SA State public officers illegally censored me dozens of times in 100s of official documents, […]
Find out more about Janette Gail FrancisJason Fischer is a writer who lives near Adelaide, South Australia. He has received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, won an Aurealis Award and the Writers of the Future Contest, and received the Colin Thiele Literature Scholarship. Jason is also a workshop faciliator, enthusiastic mentor, and a lover of anything to do with the […]
Find out more about Jason FischerJenny is an emerging writer whose work has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing. In 2014 she was awarded the Cowley Literary Award for her short story: ‘Can’t Say No to a Dying Man’. Her collaborative verse novel: Shedding Sin, was released in May 2013, and Some Call It Abuse, her poetry collection, was published […]
Find out more about Jenny TouneJillian Schedneck lived in the United Arab Emirates for two years, teaching English literature and creative writing at universities in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. She is the author of the memoir Abu Dhabi Days, Dubai Nights, published by Pan Macmillan in 2012. Her work has also appeared in Australian and American literary journals such as Wet Ink, Quadrant, LinQ, Redivider, Brevity, Fourth […]
Find out more about Jill SchedneckJo Case is an Adelaide-based writer, editor and critic who is Deputy Editor, Books & Ideas at The Conversation. She has been associate publisher at Wakefield Press, deputy editor of Australia Book Review, books editor of The Big Issue and associate editor of Kill Your Darlings. A former program manager of Melbourne Writers Festival, Jo […]
Find out more about Jo CaseJohn ran projects for SA Police at the time of his accident. A question popped into his head… ‘Why are memoirs only written about famous people? He gathered twenty-five stories of unknown people with varying disabilities or disorders, and published the book ‘The Eighteen Point Five’. He is writing his own memoir about living with […]
Find out more about John DuthieI was hit by a tree in 2009, breaking my spine and many bones. Upon my arrival in rehabilitation, I started writing my memoir ‘Alive and not Kicking’. I’ve written and published various books, including 25 stories of people living with a disability, an illustrated children’s book about a cat, and many puzzle books (colouring, […]
Find out more about John DuthieJohn Neylon is a visual arts writer and curator and previously Head of Education, Art Gallery of South Australia (1988 – 2005). He has worked as a media arts writer in Adelaide since the 1980s and is currently art critic for The Adelaide Review and The Melbourne Review. He is the 2014 winner of the […]
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