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Venero Armanno
Author
Venero has been running writing courses and short workshops with children, teenagers and adults for more than ten years. He teaches in schools, community groups and universities, and brings an innovative approach to all his classes by combining interests in stories, novels, films and songs. Veny’s classes are very loud, passionate and laugh-out-loud funny. In a fun and participative environment that emphasises quick wits and play, students learn a lot about themselves and the things they like, sometimes without even realising it!
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Tim Baker
Author, Journalist
Tim Baker is Australia’s favourite surfing writer, a former editor of Tracks and Surfing Life magazine, who has written a string of best-selling surfing biographies and collected surf stories. He has twice received the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame Culture Award and been shortlisted for the CUB Australian Sports Writing Awards.
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Katherine Battersby
Author, Illustrator
Katherine is a children’s writer and illustrator whose first picture book, Squish Rabbit, is published in Australia, the US, China and other countries. She has had many short stories published in anthologies and magazines, and in 2010 was awarded a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for her writing. She adores reading, rabbits and anime, and thinks exclamation marks are evil.
Katherine will tour schools in South Australia in March 2012
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Michael Gerard Bauer
Author
Michael Gerard Bauer is an in-demand speaker and a popular writer for children and young adults. His books have been shortlisted, won numerous awards and are used as class texts in many schools around Australia. He has written drama, comedy and adventure.
Michael will tour schools in Victoria and South Australia in 2012
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Steph Bowe
Author
Steph Bowe is a seventeen-year-old YA author whose debut novel, Girl Saves Boy, was published in 2010 by Text Publishing. She lives on the Gold Coast with her family and writes a blog called Hey! Teenager of the Year.
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Deborah Carlyon
Author, Illustrator
Deborah Carlyon is a talented writer and versatile speaker. Her work forms a bridge between two cultures. Her books have sensitivity, depth, heart, humour, and a soulful, healing imagery.
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Gary Crew
Author
Gary Crew is one of Australia’s most awarded author of Children’s and Young Adult books, with titles like Angel’s Gate and the much celebrated The Watertower in his impressive catalogue. He began his career in engineering then moved on to teach English at high school before ultimately settling into a full-time writing with ongoing work lecturing at university.
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John Danalis
Author, Illustrator, Storyteller/Performer
John Danalis has been writing and illustrating for children and young adults for ten years. His works include picture books, chapter books and non-fiction.
John will tour schools in Victoria and New South Wales in 2012
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Nick Earls
Author
Nick Earls is the author of twelve novels and two collections of short stories. Two of his novels have been adapted into feature films, and five have become stage plays.
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Brian Falkner
Author
Brian is a highly sought -after speaker in schools, and at literary festivals and conferences. His infectious enthusiasm, humour and energy make every appearance a popular and memorable one. His talks cover everything from tips for budding writers, to inspiration for reluctant readers, to small drops of wisdom on life, the universe and everything in between, in a visual, irreverent and highly entertaining way. His workshops provide practical guidance for student writers on the process of creating a story, and his Story Sports™ Tournaments will get the most reluctant writers champing at the bit to write!
Brian will tour schools in Victoria in May 2012.
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Pat Flynn
Author
An ex professional tennis player and teacher, Pat Flynn writes realistic fiction with a dose of humour for 8-16 year olds. His book The Tuckshop Kid won an Honour Book Prize at the CBCA Book of the Year Awards and his new books include The Trophy Kid and How to Get Dumped.
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David Stavanger: Ghostboy
Storyteller/Performer, Entertainer, Author
Ghostboy is one of Australia’s premier young adult and children’s spoken word presenters.
He has hosted workshops, performances, talks and poetry slams to wide acclaim from students & teachers at the likes of Voices on the Coast, Whitsunday Voices, Somerset Writers Festival, and Brisbane Writers Festival’s WordPlay.
A live hybrid of performance poetry, spoken weird theatre and surrealist vaudeville Ghostboy has been a hit at many major festivals including Brisbane Writers, Sydney Writers, Byron Bay Writers, Tasmanian Poetry, Broken Hill Poetry, Woodford Folk Festival, and QLD Poetry Festivals.
Ghostboy is the world’s only vaguely legal “literary cannibal”.
Ghostboy will tour schools in South Australia in March 2012
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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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Benjamin Law
Author, Social Commentator, Journalist
Benjamin Law is a writer for various magazines, including frankie, The Monthly, Qweekend and Sunday Life. In 2009, he released his black comedy memoir The Family Law, which was about growing up in Australia as gay and Asian—or, for brevity’s sake, gaysian.
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Lucia Masciullo
Illustrator
Lucia is an award winning illustrator of children’s picture books and novels. Since she moved from Italy to Australia in 2007 she has collaborated with Penguin (Australia) and Hardie Grant Egmont.
Lucia has been chosen as illustrator for the debut illustrated books of award winning author Sonya Hartnett and one of her illustrated books, Family Forest, was shortlisted for the CBCA award 2011.
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Prue Mason
Author
Prue Mason lived for many years in the Middle East and draws on her own many exciting life experiences to write her children’s adventure novels that have been particularly successful with boy readers. She has also written many articles and short stories for children’s magazines in Australia and internationally.
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Peter Meares
Author, Journalist
With forty years experience in sports media, Peter Meares is one of Queensland’s best-known sports commentators. He has published three books and has another two out later this year. A regular on ABC radio, he will be covering his fifth Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October, 2010.
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James Moloney
Author
James Moloney has written more than thirty books for readers between seven and seventeen years old. Many of his YA novels are widely studied in schools and two have won the CBCA Book of the Year Award. He is an engaging speaker for all ages from seven upwards.
James will tour schools in Victoria and Tasmania in 2012
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Dr Michael Nagel
Author, Personal Development, Education Consultant, Social Commentator
Dr Michael Nagel is an Associate Professor and the Head of Education Programs in the School of Science in Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Dr Nagel teaches and researches in the areas of cognition, behaviour and learning and human development and early learning.
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Richard Newsome
Author
Richard Newsome has worked as a journalist, a strategy consultant and the communications director for a multinational media company. His Billionaire’s trilogy of children’s books, which has been sold into eight countries, started as a bedtime story for his children.
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Kathleen Noonan
Journalist, Social Commentator
Kathleen Noonan is a journalist with The Courier-Mail, writing feature stories and arts and music interviews. She writes a weekly column The Last Word in the paper on Saturdays.
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Narelle Oliver
Author, Illustrator
Narelle Oliver is author and illustrator of award-winning picture books which feature narratives based on both natural history and imaginary/social/mathematical themes. Equipped with a Bachelor of Education, teaching experience, and twenty years of publication experience, she has conducted writing and illustrating workshops across Australia and South-East Asia.
Narelle will tour schools in Melbourne, Victoria and Sydney, New South Wales in August 2012.
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James Phelan
Author
James Phelan was born in 1979 and lives in Melbourne. He studied and worked in architecture, before turning to English literature. He graduated with a Master of Arts in writing, which he used to waste five good years at a newspaper. He first non-fiction book was published at age twenty-five and he has been a full-time novelist since 2006, and currently divides his time between writing the Lachlan Fox thriller series, and the Alone post-apocalyptic trilogy for Young Adults.
James will be featured in the 2012 Get Reading! program. He will tour nationally in August – lodge your expressions of interest with us now.
James will be available for Melbourne schools and libraries in Book Week (20-24 August) exclusively through Booked Out.
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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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Frances Whiting
Author, Journalist
Frances Whiting is Queensland’s best-known and best-loved newspaper columnist. For five years her weekly column in the Sunday Mail has made readers smile, cry, tear their hair out, and on several occasions, fall out of bed laughing. Frances is also the Associate Editor of the Sunday Mail and Senior Feature Writer. When she isn’t doing all of these things she enjoys playing guitar badly and falling off her surfboard.
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Kim Wilkins
Author
Kim Wilkins is the author of widely published supernatural and fantasy novels for young adults and adults and now publishes romance novels under the pseudonym Kimberly Freeman.
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Dr Karen Brooks
Education Consultant, Social Commentator, Author
Described as ‘Australia’s best known academic’ by ABC radio and a ‘celebrity academic’ by other media, Karen lectures on the areas of youth, sexuality and popular culture using a psychoanalytical model. Karen has also worked as a professional actress, a children’s playwright, an Army Officer in the Royal Australian Army Survey Corp, a checkout-chick, an assessment clerk with the NRMA, a waitress, a dress-boutique manager, a theatre director, a wife (twice), and a mother (twice over too!).
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