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Tania Ingram

Tania Ingram is a children’s author of picture books, poetry and novels, including the wickedly funny Jinny and Cooper series. She enjoys visiting schools and festivals, sharing her love of books and stories with fun and interactive presentations. When she is not writing or reading, you can find her playing ukulele and singing to her […]

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Childrens Comedy Junior Fiction Middle Childhood Picture Books Poetry Short Stories
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Teresa Podemska – Abt

Teresa Podemska – Abt is a philologist/poet-writer/translator and a researcher-member of AIATSIS. She holds PhD, BEd, MEd – course/w. and MA degrees from Unis of South Australia, Adelaide and Wrocław. She creates in many genres, won a range of literary and academic prizes and has been published in Poland, Australia and Canada (e.g., Text Matters, […]

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Australiana Essays/Articles Literary Fiction Multicultural Non-fiction Poetry Short Stories
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Tracy Crisp

Tracy writes across platforms as varied as stand-up, novels, storytelling and memoir. As a regular participant at readings and other events (including her new show, Pearls, at the Adelaide Fringe in 2018) she is known for work that brings a potent mix of humour and poignancy to any event. She also works as a funeral […]

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Auto/Biography Comedy Essays/Articles Humour Literary Fiction Theatre Women's
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Tricia Stringer

Tricia Stringer is a bestselling and award-winning Australian author. She writes rural romance, historical saga and women’s fiction. Tricia lives in the beautiful Copper Coast region of South Australia her base for exploring Australia’s diverse communities and landscapes, and sharing her passion for the country and its people through her authentic stories and vivid characters.

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Australiana Contemporary Historical Romance Women's
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Valerie Volk

Valerie Volk is the award winning author of four books: In Due Season, a collection of poems, (CALEB Poetry Prize 2010) , a verse novel called A Promise of Peaches, and a dark and twisted modern version of Grimms’ stories, Even Grimmer Tales. Her fourth book, Passion Play – the Oberammergau Tales, published by Wakefield […]

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Literary Fiction Poetry Short Stories
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Vanessa Forsyth (VK Tritschler)

VK Tritschler is a full-time busy body and part-time imagination conjurer. She lives on the amazing Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, having moved there from her hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand. She has a wonderful set of amazing writers who support her in the form of Eyre Writers, and in return, she offers crowd control […]

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Australiana Paranormal Romance Women's
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verity laughton

Dr Verity Laughton is an award-winning Adelaide-based poet and playwright of more than 30 professionally produced works. Her work has been produced locally, nationally and internationally. Her most recent works are the verbatim theatre piece Long Tan, (Brink Productions, April 2017), published by Currency Press, and The Red Cross Letters, (STCSA, August 2016), published by […]

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Childrens Essays/Articles Literary Fiction Non-fiction Poetry Radio Short Stories Theatre Young Adult
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Victoria Purman

Mentorship areas: general fiction, women’s fiction, romance, historical fiction Victoria Purman is an Australian and USA Today bestselling fiction author. Her bestselling The Land Girls was published in April 2019. The Last of the Bonegilla Girls, a novel based on her mother’s postwar migration to Australia, was published in 2018. Her previous novel The Three […]

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