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Deborah Abela
Author, Entertainer
Deb Abela is an ambitious author, with an impressive output of fifteen books in ten years. Her dedication to her craft, and sharing it with students across Australia, earnt her the role of National Literacy Ambassador for 2010.
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Tristan Bancks
Author
Tristan Bancks tells stories for the page and screen. His background is in acting and filmmaking. His most recent books are Galactic Adventures, First Kids in Space (UQP) and My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up (Random House).
Tristan will tour schools in Victoria in August 2012
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JC Burke
Author
J.C. Burke was born in Sydney in 1965, the fourth of five sisters. With writers for parents, she grew up in a world of noise, drama and books, but she decided to become a nurse after her mother lost a long battle with cancer. Since Burke started writing in 1999, she has published a number of acclaimed books for teenagers and young adults, including Children’s Book Council Notable Books WHITE LIES and THE RED CARDIGAN, Aurealis Awards finalist NINE LETTERS LONG, THE STORY OF TOM BRENNAN, FAKING SWEET, STARFISH SISTERS and OCEAN PEARL. THE STORY OF TOM BRENNAN won the 2006 CBC Book of the Year – Older Readers and the 2006 Australian Family Therapists Award for Children’s Literature. It is currently on the NSW HSC syllabus list. Jane lives on Sydney’s Northern Beaches and is married with two children.
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Jane Caro
Author, Social Commentator
Jane Caro is an author, novelist, award winning advertising writer and political/social commentator. She is a funny, warm and engaging speaker in high demand both on podiums and on radio and TV for her straight – talking style. She is passionate about connecting with people through words – whether spoken, written or broadcast and loves to tell a story.
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Paul Dillon
Author, Personal Development, Education Consultant, Social Commentator
Paul Dillon has a unique investment in the wellbeing of young people. Founder of Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia and a former school teacher, Paul continues to conduct drug information sessions and workshops for school students across Australia and internationally, in countries as diverse as the UK, the Phillipines, and Indonesia.
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Nina Funnell
Education Consultant, Social Commentator, Inspirational Speaker
Nina Funnell is a freelance opinion writer and researcher. She has had work published in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Age, The Brisbane Times and in the Sydney Star Observer. Nina often writes on gender and sexuality related issues and also sits on the board of the NSW Rape Crisis Centre, the Premier’s Council on Preventing Violence Against Women and the National Children and Youth Law Centre. In 2010, she also received the Australian Human Rights Commission Community Individual Award for her work in advocacy against sexual assault and violence.
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Serena Geddes
Illustrator
Serena spent six years with Walt Disney Animation Australia working closely with Simba, Peter Pan and Mowgli on the sequels for Lion King, Return to Neverland and Jungle Book. Unfortunately she did not meet Mickey as he was never around when there was work to be done. She continued creating for greeting card and magazine publishers before stepping into children’s books. Within the first two years Serena had illustrated fourteen books and is writing her first author/illustrated children’s book for publication next year.
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Phillip Gwynne
Author
Phillip Gwynne has written widely, from picture books, younger readers, YA novels, adult crime novels (The Build Up) and for the screen (Australian Rules). His book Deadly Unna? is acknowledged as a modern Australian classic.
Due to other commitments, his speaking availability is limited.
Phillip will, however, take expressions of interest for residencies with schools in Western Australia in 2012.
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Maggie Hamilton
Personal Development, Education Consultant, Social Commentator, Author
Writer, publisher and social researcher Maggie Hamilton gives talks and lectures, is a regular media commentator and a keen observer of social trends. Her many books have been published in Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Italy, the Arab States, Lithuania and Brazil, and include What Men Don’t Talk About, What’s Happening to Our Girls?, and now What Happening to Our Boys? which looks at the 21st century challenges of our boys.
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John Heffernan
Author
John Heffernan has written about thirty books for a range of audiences from early readers to young adults, in a range of genre that includes realistic fiction, fantasy, futuristic, and picture books. He also writes for junior readers under the pseudonym “Charlie Carter” (most notably, the Battle Boy series).
John/Charlie will tour Queensland schools in August (Brisbane) and October (Cairns) 2012
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Nette Hilton
Author
Nette Hilton is a compelling and challenging storyteller of exciting tales for children of all ages with a voice that is strong and filled with warmth and humour. She creates the extraordinary in the everyday lives of families captivating her readers while opening new worlds and realities for them.
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Joanne Horniman
Author
Joanne Horniman has been writing for twenty-five years and is an experienced writing teacher to both adults and children.
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Lucy Howard-Taylor
Author, Inspirational Speaker, Social Commentator
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Melinda Hutchings
Author, Personal Development, Inspirational Speaker
Melinda Hutchings is a media commentator, author, speaker and mentor on the topic of body image and teen issues. She is the author of four books and is passionate about empowering young people to face and overcome challenging issues and to recognise their enormous potential to create a happy and fulfilling future.
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Linda Jaivin
Author, Social Commentator
Linda Jaivin is one of Australia’s most versatile writers. Her work spans humour, eroticism, social issues (The Infernal Optimist is set in an immigration detention centre), China studies, literary translation and cultural commentary. She has appeared on ABC’s Q & A and was a regular panelist on the now sadly defunct Critical Mass.
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Tara June Winch
Author, Social Commentator
‘Tara June Winch is a most stimulating young person to know and to interact with, an active mind and a truly engaged social being.’ Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
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Anneli Knight
Author, Personal Development, Inspirational Speaker, Social Commentator, Journalist
Anneli is a regular contributor to The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers and is author of Flirting with Finance, the modern woman’s guide to financial freedom. She lives and writes between Melbourne, the Kimberley and Northern NSW.
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William Kostakis
Author
William Kostakis is an award-winning author for young adults who prides himself on still being a young adult. His debut novel, “Loathing Lola” was released when he was just 19 and met with critical acclaim. Since then, he has split his time between writing his sophomore, a fledgling journalistic career and touring high schools nationally.
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L.A. Larkin
Author, Social Commentator
L. A. Larkin divides her time between writing topical thrillers and her work for one of Australia’s leading climate change consultancies, Energetics. Her corporate career, international travel and knowledge of environmental issues provide the inspiration for her action-packed plots. To research her first thriller, The Genesis Flaw, she drew on her time in Zimbabwe, consulted with world renowned geneticists and worked closely with a computer hacker, even attending a hackers’ conference. She has recently returned from Antarctica, which is the setting of her next thriller, a climate change catastrophe. It will be published in 2011.
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Tim Macartney-Snape
Inspirational Speaker
Australiaʼs most well known mountaineer is a veteran of pioneering routes in remote regions of the Himalaya but is best known for his attempts of Mount Everest on two very different, pioneering expeditions. Remarkably he reached the summit on both occasions, without the use of bottled oxygen and in a style and substance of a class way beyond the realm of guided ascents so popular in recent times.
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Emma Magenta
Illustrator, Author
Emma Magenta was born in Sydney and began her career drawing and writing her thoughts down on brown paper bags while working at Berkelouw Books in Paddington. After pinning them to the front window, they accrued a cult status and a publishing deal was offered to her by Australian publishing phenomenon; Bradley Trevor Grieve.
Since then, she has written and illustrated several adult picture books; The Peril of Magnificent Love, A Gorgeous Sense of Hope, The Origin of Lament and The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch. These books explore aspects of the feminine psyche, one’s emotional world and the secret life of relationships. They have resonated with thousands of women around the globe as an antidote to depression and a validation of hope.
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Emily Maguire
Author, Social Commentator
Emily Maguire is the award-winning author of three novels and two non-fiction books. Her articles and essays on sex, religion, culture and literature have been published widely in Australian and international magazines, journals and newspapers.
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Matt McFadyen
Inspirational Speaker
From dragging sleds to the North Pole to sailing tiny yachts to Antarctica, Matt McFadyen has been there and done that. At the age of 29 Matt has spent the last decade pushing himself to his physical and mental limits while exploring some of the most remote parts of the globe.
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Esther McKay
Author
Esther Mckay has led an incredible life, from her work as a crime scene examiner in Sydney to best selling author. She is an advocate for Police suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and works actively to improve conditions for mental health in emergency workers. She speaks regularly about her experiences and is an Australia Day Ambassador.
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Chris Morphew
Author
Chris Morphew spent his childhood writing stories about dinosaurs and spaceships. More recently, he’s written fifteen books for kids and young adults.
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P.M. Newton
Author, Inspirational Speaker, Social Commentator
After thirteen years as a detective in the NSW police force, P.M. Newton decided to take a leap into the unknown and seek a different path, one that did not involve constantly meeting people for the first time on the worst day of their life. Since then she has travelled to Timbuktu, written about music in Mali, studied Buddhist philosophy in India, taught English to Tibetan monks and written a critically acclaimed novel.
Who says you can’t change your life?
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Oliver Phommavanh
Author
Oliver Phommavanh loves to make people laugh, whether it’s on the page writing humour for kids or on stage as a stand-up comedian. He also shares his passion for writing with the kids he teaches at a primary school in Western Sydney. As a comedian, Oliver has appeared on stage, and on national TV and radio.
Oliver will tour schools in Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and South Australia in 2012
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Felicity Pulman
Author
Felicity’s stories reflect her passion for history (both Australian history and medieval England) and her fascination with the unknown in our world: time travel, ghosts and reincarnation.
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Trent Southworth
Personal Development, Social Commentator
Trent Southworth is a former NSW Police Officer with over fourteen years policing experience, including eight years employed in the Youth Liaison role. In his role, Trent worked closely with numerous government and non government agencies to identify youth related initiatives such as underage drinking programs, truancy, road safety, drug programs, and bullying.
He assisted in the implementation and monitoring of the State Governments Young Offenders Act, which targets all young offenders aged between 10 and 18 years of age. Through his experience in the NSW Police, Trent witnessed first-hand the importance of ongoing education of young people in today’s society.
Since leaving the Police, Trent has developed and facilitated numerous seminars for students, teachers, parents and community groups Australia-wide.
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R.A. Spratt
Author, Illustrator
R.A.Spratt is an award-winning comedy writer with thirteen years experience in the television industry. She started out writing political satire, then moved into sketch comedy, then pre-school drama and in more recent years has worked mainly in animation. R.A. Spratt lives in Sydney. She used to enjoy bellringing, hapkido and long distance running. But then she had two children has rarely left the house since. She is currently working on the 6th installment in the Nanny Piggins series.
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Pelissa Tsilimidos-Thorne
Curriculum Specialist, Education Consultant
Pelissa Tsilimidos-Thorne (B.A., Dip. Ed., MA. Ed.) is a senior English teacher with 25 years’ experience. She holds a research Masters in Education (Film as Text) from Monash University and has written for various educational journals and books.
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Erin Vincent
Author, Inspirational Speaker, Personal Development
Erin Vincent is a highly respected journalist who has worked both here and in the US for publications such as The Australian, Marie Claire, The Sunday Telegraph and America’s biggest selling publication People Magazine. She is also the author of the acclaimed memoir Grief Girl: My True Story that is now in its seventh printing in the US and was named a New York Public Library’s Best Book for 2007.
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Ben Wood
Illustrator
Ben Wood has been illustrating for publishers and design studios for many years. He has been a Booked Out speaker for nearly as long and enjoys creating books with students.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah
Author, Social Commentator
Randa Abdel-Fattah is the award-winning author of young adult novels and has extensive experience speaking at schools, writer’s festivals, universities and conferences in Australia and overseas. She is also a human rights activist and practicing lawyer and enjoys a public profile, appearing on television programs such as the ABC’s Q & A, First Tuesday Book Club, SBS’s Insight and Channel Seven’s Sunrise.
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