Victoria Purman

Victoria Purman is an Australian top ten and USA Today bestselling fiction author and sought-after MC and Chair for author events. Her latest book The Radio Hour was released in 2024 in Australia and NZ and will be published in the US and Canada in February 2025. Her historical fiction books A Woman’s Work, The Nurses’ War, The Women’s Pages, The Land Girls and The Last of the Bonegilla Girls have all been Australian bestsellers. Her earlier novel The Three Miss Allens was a USA Today bestseller. She is a regular guest at writers festivals, a mentor and workshop presenter across Australia, and has judged the fiction category for the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. In her role as an MC, she has interview New York times bestselling and Australian bestselling authors including Lisa Genova (Still Alice), Pip Williams (The Dictionary of Lost Words) and Adrian McKinty (The Chain), and Australia bestsellers Hannah Kent (Burial Rites), Chris Hammer, Tricia Stringer, Rachael Johns and Natasha Lester.

Mentorship areas: general fiction, women’s fiction, romance, historical fiction. Victoria isn’t taking on mentorships in 2025.