Author and Illustrator Directory

Find the perfect writer, poet, playwright, storyteller or illustrator for your event.

The Australia Reads Author and Illustrator Directory is a free, online resource for event bookers across Australia to find local authors and illustrators for events in their schools, workplaces and communities.

Want to be featured on the Directory as an author or illustrator? Read our Eligibility Criteria, T&Cs and Code of Conduct, and sign up here.

Anna Go-Go

Author

VIC

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Reading, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Mental health, Physical health, General history, Feminism, Gender

Ryan Butta

Author

NSW

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Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Australian history

Marny Lishman

Author

WA

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Secondary school visit, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Death and grief, Mental health

Lara Cain Gray

Author

QLD

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit

Emma Maidment

Author

Other/International

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Environment, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Physical health

Dan Liebke

Author

VIC

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Reading, Panel guest, Media commentary

Anna Featherstone

Author

NSW

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Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Family, Environment

Nicole Hayes

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Friendship, Family, Death and grief, Identity and belonging, Politics, Social justice, Feminism, Gender

Bonny Cassidy

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Secondary school visit, Environment, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Australian history, Feminism, Gender

Maryrose Cuskelly

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Family, Death and grief, Politics, Social justice, Feminism

Raeden Richardson

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Love and relationships, Death and grief, Identity and belonging, Class and mobility

Sally Rippin

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Primary school visit, Friendship, Family, Mental health, Disability

Dani Netherclift

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Family, Death and grief, Disability

Phil Hore

Author

QLD

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Workshop, Panel guest, Media commentary, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Friendship, Environment, Politics, Australian history, General history

Nicholas Jose

Author

SA

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Reading, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Love and relationships, Politics, Refugees and political asylum, Australian history, Social justice

Melanie Joosten

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Secondary school visit, General history, Social justice, Feminism, Gender

Katherine Kovacic

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Friendship, Death and grief, Australian history, Feminism

Jan-andrew Henderson

Author

QLD

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit

Idan Ben-Barak

Author

VIC

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Workshop, Panel guest, Primary school visit, Physical health

Alex Creece

Author

VIC

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Reading, Panel guest, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Social justice, Disability, Sex and sexuality

Hasib Hourani

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Secondary school visit, Love and relationships, Family, Death and grief, Identity and belonging, Politics, Refugees and political asylum, Migration, Social justice, Racism, Sex and sexuality, Gender

Melody Horrill

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Friendship, Family, Environment, Identity and belonging, Mental health

Jackie French

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Environment, Australian history, General history, Feminism, Disability

Eugen Bacon

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Secondary school visit, Death and grief, Identity and belonging, Refugees and political asylum, Migration, Feminism

Annie de Monchaux

Author

WA

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Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Death and grief

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