Below is a list of our South Australian authors who are SA Writers Centre members. You can find out more about them and check out their latest work by clicking on the link.
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Author Genres
(Auto) Biography · Adventure · Australiana · Comedy · Contemporary · Crime · Erotic · Essays/Articles · Experimental · Fantasy · Film/TV · Food · Genre Fiction · Historical · Horror · Humour · Indigenous · Internet/Web · Junior Fiction · Literary Fiction · Middle Childhood · Multicultural · Murder Mystery/Detective · Non-fiction · Paranormal · Picture Books · Poetry · Radio · Romance · Science Fiction · Short Stories · Theatre · Thriller · Travel · Western · Women's · Young Adult
Author Availability
Assessments · Mentoring · Readings · School Visits · Speaking Engagements
Cassandra Dean
Genres: Erotic, Historical, Romance, Western,
Availability: Mentoring, Speaking Engagements,
Cassandra Dean is a best-selling, multi-published author of historical and fantasy romance. Her latest novel, SILK & SCARS, is book 3 of her popular Silk Series featuring law-loving peeps and their happily ever after, and THE DIAMOND SERIES BOX SET, collecting together books from her Diamond Series and set in the Old American West. Her […]
Cheryl Adnams
Availability: Readings, Speaking Engagements,
Cheryl Adnams lives in Adelaide, South Australia. After discovering a love of writing in high school, she went on to complete courses in screenplay writing and a Diploma of Freelance Travel Writing and Photography.
Christine Ostermann (Christina Carlisle)
Genres: Crime, Romance, Thriller, Women's,
Availability: Speaking Engagements,
Christine Ostermann writes under the pseudonym of Christina Carlisle and is an international bestselling author of thirteen romance novels. She has recently moved into the crime genre publishing her first crime novel Kill-Me-Quick and is a proud member of Crime Writers SA. A highly qualified public relations practitioner and […]
David Mortimer
Genres: Poetry,
Availability: Readings, Speaking Engagements,
David Mortimer writes poetry to speak aloud and carry in the mind. His collection Magic Logic (Puncher & Wattmann 2012) is called ‘a delightful book’ by Judith Beveridge, who commends ‘the sense of wonder’, ‘the imaginative play’ and ‘the vigour of the syntax’. Steve Evans talks of the ‘spacious […]
Don Loffler
Genres: Non-fiction,
Availability: Speaking Engagements,
Since retiring from the teaching of secondary Latin and German in 1996, Don has devoted himself to researching and writing about his passion – the history of the first two Holden models, the 48-215 (‘FX’) and the iconic FJ. Having made contact with hundreds of people and obtained thousands of photographs, […]
Eddy Pengelly
Genres: Non-fiction,
Availability: Speaking Engagements,
Adelaide author, second researcher to investigate the claim that physical proof of Evidence of Time Travel Back to the Past was Found in many Ancient Texts. Conducting comprehensive research, Eddy confirmed this claim, and now presents his own findings in 10 Books and 4 Academic Papers – which are now […]
Gillian Rubenstein
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Literary Fiction, Middle Childhood, Young Adult,
Gillian has won the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year twice, for Beyond The Labyrinth and Foxspell, and has had several books listed as Honour Books in the same awards, as well as many shortlistings for these and other awards. She has won the Festival Award twice (for Space Demons and Beyond the Labyrinth), the New […]
Gina Dawson
Genres: (Auto) Biography, Essays/Articles, Junior Fiction, Literary Fiction, Middle Childhood, Non-fiction, Picture Books, Short Stories, Young Adult,
Availability: Assessments, Mentoring, Readings, School Visits, Speaking Engagements,
Gina, a qualified teacher and counsellor, is passionate about writing books for children and young adults that educate on personal growth and social issues. She also works part-time in the writing field, assisting students, businesses or folk wanting to write memoirs, as well as proof reading for a charity. Her […]
Grant Lock
Genres: Adventure, Historical, Multicultural, Non-fiction, Travel,
Availability: Readings, Speaking Engagements,
A successful Australian stud beef cattle breeder and agricultural businessman, Grant has always been interested in current affairs, international politics, human rights and the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. For twenty four years he and his gutsy wife, Janna, moved into voluntary development work in the Islamic Republics of Pakistan […]
Hayley Morton
Genres: Picture Books,
Availability: Readings, School Visits, Speaking Engagements,
Hayley is the author of: Captain Plop’s Water Saving Mission (2009), Captain Plop: the desalination adventure (2010), Thinkbeings (2012) and Captain Plop and the tour de recycle (2013) She is editing her first novel, due late 2017 / early 2018. Her day job is a Librarian & School Education Specialist […]
