Sign up to our newsletter

Australia Reads

Join the Australia Reads Author and Illustrator Directory

Thank you for your interest in joining the Australia Reads Author and Illustrator Directory. This Directory is intended as a resource to help connect festival and events programmers with Australian authors and illustrators and support live literature opportunities for communities around Australia. 

The Directory is open to authors and illustrators who are Australian citizens and/or are currently residing in Australia, and have had a book traditionally published in Australia in the last 5 years.

The Directory showcases authors and illustrators of adult fiction, non-fiction, poetry, young adult and children’s books. It is not open to authors of purely academic work.

Authors and illustrators listed must be interested and available to take part in events (both live and online), and open to approaches and commissions from event organisers.

Before filling out this form, please ensure that you have read our Terms and Conditions and Code of Conduct.

Create New Ambassador
Your email will remain private and will not appear in the directory. It will be used only for Australia Reads to contact you about your submission.
Australian state/territory you currently reside in. If you are an Australian author living overseas, please select Other/International.

Local Area

This information is used to help event organisers program authors/illustrators that are local to them. Please select the local area you usually reside in, plus any additional areas you visit regularly (ie have accomodation, networks and/or visit more than twice a year).
The genres you most commonly write/publish in. Please select no more than 3.
Please select your target audience as it relates to your books, as well as the primary audience for events.
Please only select the event formats you have existing experience in and are comfortable in delivering.
Please select no more than 5.
We’d love to hear why you think reading is an essential part of Australian life. (100 words max.) Please note, this content may be used to promote the Author Directory and the work of Australia Reads.
Please provide your most up-to-date author bio, including recent book titles, written in third person. (200 words max.)
Authors without a website may supply their primary social media account.
Please indicate your preferred method of contact for event organisers. E.g. your speaker’s agent, literary agent, website or social media account.
Do you have any footage of you presenting an event you’d like to share? This can help give event organisers a sense of your presentation style and the kind of events you can deliver. Please provide as a Youtube or Vimeo link only.
Colour, portrait orientation preferred, attached as a hi-res JPEG file. Please include your full name in the file name. Maximum file size 10MB.
Please indicate if you currently hold one of the following. Note that WWCC can be obtained in NSW, NT, QLD, SA, VIC and WA while WWVP can be obtained in ACT and TAS. Authors and illustrators are not required to have a valid WWCC or WWVP to be listed on the Author Directory, however may be required to obtain one by event organisers. Regardless of whether you hold one of these checks, we expect that you have read and agreed to the Child Safe Standards as outlined in our Code of Conduct.
View the Terms