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Australia Reads

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.

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Katrina Kell

Author

WA

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Coming of age, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Identity and belonging, Politics, Mental health, Australian history, General history, Social justice, Racism, Gender, Class and mobility

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

Shannon Jade

Author

VIC

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Reading, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Friendship, Environment, Politics, Disability

Sara Saleh

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Family, Identity and belonging, Social justice, Racism, Gender

Vicki Bennett

Author

QLD

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Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Australian history

Samantha Smith

Author

VIC

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

Laura Stitzel

Author & Illustrator

VIC

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Reading, Panel guest, Primary school visit, Social justice

Kimberly Brown

Author & Illustrator

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Environment

Josephine Moon

Author

QLD

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Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Friendship, Family, Mental health, Disability

Katie White

Author

NSW

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Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech

Jennifer Falkner

Illustrator

WA

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Reading, Workshop, Primary school visit, Friendship, Family, Environment, Identity and belonging, Mental health

Grace Fraraccio

Illustrator

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Friendship, Death and grief, Identity and belonging

Suneeta Peres da Costa

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Primary school visit, 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, Physical health, Australian history, General history, Social justice, Feminism, Racism, Disability, Sex and sexuality, Gender, Class and mobility

Shaeden Berry

Author

WA

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Reading, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Friendship, Family, Death and grief, Mental health

Nadia Mahjouri

Author

TAS

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

Michael Brissenden

Author

ACT

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Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Media commentary, Love and relationships, Family, Environment, Politics

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

Brooke Blurton

Author

VIC

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Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Keynote speech, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Love and relationships, Friendship, Identity and belonging, Mental health, Feminism, Racism, Sex and sexuality, Gender

Sharon Baldwin

Author

NSW

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Primary school visit, Environment

Melissa Ashley

Author

QLD

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Love and relationships, Family, General history, Feminism, Gender

Peter Baldwin

Illustrator

NSW

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Workshop, Primary school visit, Friendship, Family, Environment

Rory H. Mather

Author

QLD

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Friendship, Death and grief

Wendy Orr

Author

VIC

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Primary school visit, Coming of age, Friendship, Family, Environment

Zoë Bennett

Illustrator

NSW

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

Yxavel Magno Dino

Author

NSW

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Reading, Panel guest, Primary school visit, Coming of age, Friendship, Family, Environment, Identity and belonging

Sally Barns

Author

TAS

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Reading, Primary school visit

Renee Treml

Author & Illustrator

WA

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Reading, Workshop, Panel guest, Panel facilitator, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Coming of age, Love and relationships, Friendship, Family, Environment

Lisa Harvey-Smith

Author

TAS

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

Katrina Nannestad

Author

VIC

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Workshop, Panel guest, Keynote speech, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Friendship, Family, Death and grief, Identity and belonging, General history

Kate and Jol Temple

Author & Illustrator

NSW

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Reading, Panel guest, Primary school visit, Secondary school visit, Friendship, Family, Environment, Identity and belonging, Refugees and political asylum, Mental health, General history