After completing a Bachelor of Arts (Professional Writing and Editing), a Master of Arts (Creative Writing), and a Graduate Diploma of Information Management, Sarah currently works as a librarian in a public library. Sarah lives in Naarm/Melbourne. Author Website Stand AloneSee What I Have Done (2017)Blue Hour (2022) Critical Acclaim See What I Have Done:Winner …
Matt Nable is a novelist, screenwriter and actor. His film 1%, which he wrote and starred in, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the US by A24 in 2018. He was most recently seen in the Australian box office hit The Dry; he has starred in The Killer Elite alongside Clive Owen …
Rebecca Starford is the author of Bad Behaviour, a memoir about boarding school and bullying. The book has been optioned for television by Matchbox Pictures. She is also the co-founder and publishing director of Kill Your Darlings, and has previously worked for Text Publishing and Affirm Press. She is a freelance editor and creative writing teacher.Originally …
Matthew Benns has spent his career as a journalist chasing and exposing some of the biggest conmen and women in the world. He has worked for newspapers in Fleet Street including The Sun, Today and Daily Mail and in Sydney for The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs and The Sun Herald. He is also the author …
Christine Wells writes historical fiction featuring strong, fascinating women. From early childhood, she drank in her father’s tales about the true stories behind popular nursery rhymes and she has been a keen student of history ever since. After graduating from university with a law degree, Christine worked in a large city firm, specialising in corporate …
Marion Hughes lives on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. In her past life, she was a secondary school English teacher and Special Education educator, inspiring a love of literacy amongst disengaged teenage readers, students with disabilities, ESL students and juvenile offenders. Dark Illusions TrilogyWatch Your Back (2021)I’m Back (2022)
Simon was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He is a graduate of both the University of South Australia and Flinders University. He and his wife, Karen, share their home in rural Victoria with a farm full of rescued animals and a large collection of books. Simon is a lover of baseball, jalapeños and sculpture. Author …
Jimmy Thomson has written three military histories, including one about the Australian sappers (Army Engineers) who discovered the famous tunnels of Cu Chi in Vietnam. He’s also written a true crime memoir set in Sydney’s Kings Cross and the biographies of dual rugby internationalist Wendell Sailor and cricketer Shane Watson. He is a successful TV …
Peter Papathanasiou was born in northern Greece and adopted as a baby to an Australian family. His writing has been published internationally by The New York Times, Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, The ABC, SBS, Huffington Post. He also holds an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from …
Sara Foster was born and raised in England and moved to Australia in 2004. Before becoming a writer she worked as a book editor, at first in-house at HarperCollins UK and then freelance. She lives near Perth, Western Australia, with her husband and two young daughters, and is a doctoral candidate with Curtin University. Author …