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.

Elizabeth Walton

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Love and relationships, Environment, Identity and belonging, Physical health, Social justice, Disability

Lauren Novak

Author

SA

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Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Family, Mental health, Feminism, Gender

Simone Amelia Jordan

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Identity and belonging, Social justice, Feminism, Racism

Kai Ash

Author

QLD

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Reading, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Secondary school visit, Friendship, Family, Identity and belonging, Gender, LGBTQI+

David Knoff

Author

VIC

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Workshop, Keynote speech, Environment, Politics, Mental health, Australian history

Lorena Otes

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Media commentary, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Identity and belonging, Feminism, Sex and sexuality

Hayley Quinn

Author

QLD

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Disability

Catherine DeVrye

Author

NSW

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Panel guest, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Friendship, Identity and belonging

Edita Mujkic

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Identity and belonging, Refugees and political asylum, Migration, Social justice

Benita Bensch

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Love and relationships, Family, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Social justice

Dina Davis

Author

NSW

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Reading, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Environment, Death and grief, Identity and belonging, Politics, Refugees and political asylum, Migration, Mental health, Feminism, Racism, Disability

Sarah Sasson

Author

NSW

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Reading, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Love and relationships, Family, Death and grief, Mental health

Carly-Jay Metcalfe

Author

QLD

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Death and grief, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Physical health, Disability, Sex and sexuality

Danielle Corrie

Author

NSW

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Reading, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Friendship, Family, Death and grief

Melissa Fagan

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Love and relationships, Family, Environment, Death and grief, Identity and belonging, Australian history, Social justice, Feminism, Gender, Class and mobility

Edwina Shaw

Author

QLD

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Environment, Death and grief, Mental health, Physical health, Australian history, Social justice, Feminism

Sonia Orchard

Author

VIC

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Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Secondary school visit, Mental health, Social justice, Feminism

Erna Walraven

Author

NSW

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Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Love and relationships, Environment, Feminism, Sex and sexuality, Gender

Seana Smith

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Secondary school visit, Family, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Physical health, Disability

Nadia Mahjouri

Author

TAS

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Family, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Social justice, Feminism

Jenny Valentish

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Physical health, Feminism, Gender

Christine Newell

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Friendship, Death and grief, Identity and belonging, Mental health

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

Michelle Scott Tucker

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Family, Politics, Australian history, Social justice, Feminism

Josie McSkimming

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Love and relationships, Family, Death and grief, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Social justice, Feminism, Sex and sexuality, Gender

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

Anna Featherstone

Author

NSW

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Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Family, Environment

Bonny Cassidy

Author

VIC

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

Andy McCarthy

Author

VIC

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Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Environment, Identity and belonging, Politics, Mental health

Heather Taylor Johnson

Author

SA

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Family, Death and grief, Identity and belonging, Feminism, Disability

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