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Location: Tasmania

Justin Heazlewood

Author, Entertainer, Inspirational Speaker, Mental Health, Speaking Out, Storyteller/Performer, Wellbeing

Justin Heazlewood has written four books including Dream Burnie which was released in 2025. He publishes a gazette called Fuzzy Logic and also writes a monthly column for Canberra street press BMA. He spent fifteen years performing music and comedy as The Bedroom Philosopher and twice had songs feature in the Hottest 100.

Justin is the author of Get Up Mum about living with a Mum with schizophrenia, published by Affirm Press in 2018. In 2019 he adapted the book into a ten part radio series for ABC RN’s Life Matters. In 2022 he adapted the book into a one-man theatre show which premiered at Hobart’s Theatre Royal.

In 2020 Justin gave a witness statement for the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System. He is an ambassador for Satellite Foundation who support young people caring for a family member with a mental illness.

“Justin Heazlewood is nothing short of one of Australia’s most versatile and important storytellers. In his journalism and personal essays, Heazlewood demonstrates a remarkable capacity to not only make the reader laugh, but think critically about important issues often poorly discussed, such as mental illness, unemployment and the frailty of human relationships.”
– Benjamin Law.

 

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Coral Tulloch

Author, Illustrator

Coral Tulloch has worked on close to 60 books for children for both Australian and International publishers. As an author and illustrator, working in both fiction and non-fiction, Coral brings a wide range of presentations from cartooning to discussions on the environment, for a wide audience group.

Her latest book, One Small Island co-authored and co-illustrated with Alison Lester tells the story of Macquarie Island. She is currently working on two illustrated fictions, which revolve around the continent she loves so well.

Coral is the creator of a syndicated children’s page, The Tales Of Wombat Creek, which appeared for over 20 years in newspapers throughout Australia and Internationally. She has a passion for environmental education and equally, a passion to help others express their own stories through either the written or visual narrative.

Her work for more than a decade has centred on her voyages and experiences of the Antarctic, with several works produced. Antarctica The Heart Of The World won the Wilderness Societies Environment Award for Children’s Literature in 2004 and was named one of the best ten books of the year by US Science Books and Films several years later.

Coral lives in Hobart with her husband, Peter.

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Lian Tanner

Author

Lian Tanner is an award-winning author of children’s books, as well as an engaging and and entertaining speaker. She uses laughter, storytelling and challenges to inspire students to read, while at the same time providing them with tools they can use to write their own stories.

  • Museum of Thieves: The Keepers 1 (2010)
  • City of Lies: The Keepers 2 (2011)
  • Path of Beasts: The Keepers 3 (2012)
  • Ice Breaker: Hidden Series 1 (2013)
  • Sunker’s Deep: Hidden Series 2 (2014)
  • Fetcher’s Song: Hidden Series 3 (2016)
  • Accidental Heroes: The Rogues 1 (2017)
  • Secret Guardians: The Rogues 2 (2018)
  • Haunted Warriors: The Rogues 3 (2019)
  • Ella and the Ocean (illus.Jonathan Bentley, 2019)
  • A Clue for Clara (2020)
  • Rita’s Revenge (2022)
  • Spellhound: The Dragons of Hallow 1 (2023)
  • Fledgewitch: The Dragons of Hallow 2 (2024)
  • When the Lights Went Out  (illus.Jonathan Bentley, 2024)

All published by Allen & Unwin

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