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Deborah Abela  

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  

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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Freya Blackwood  
JC Burke  

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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Serena Geddes  

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  

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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John Heffernan  

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  

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  

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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Rebecca Huntley  
Melinda Hutchings  

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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William Kostakis  

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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David Lovegrove  
Tim Macartney-Snape  

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  

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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Matt McFadyen  

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  

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  

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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Oliver Phommavanh  

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  

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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R.A. Spratt  

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  

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  

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  

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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