Authors

Welcome our Australian Fiction Authors directory - your ultimate destination for discovering the latest and greatest works of fiction by talented Australian writers. Browse our directory and support local authors across various genres, including romance, crime, women's fiction, thrillers, and contemporary fiction. Find your next captivating read today.

Alex Miller
Alex Miller
Alex Miller was born in South London. He left home at 15 and worked as a farm labourer in the west country of England. He…
Alissa Callen
Alissa Callen
When Alissa isn’t writing she plays traffic controller to four children, three dogs, two horses and one renegade cow who really does believe the grass…
Alissa Callen
Alissa Callen
When USA Today bestselling author Alissa Callen isn’t writing she plays traffic controller to four children, three dogs, two horses and one renegade cow who…
Allee Richards
Allee Richards
Allee Richards’ short fiction has been published widely in Australian literary magazines and anthologies, including Kill Your Darlings, The Best Australian Stories, New Australian Fiction, Best Summer Stories, The Lifted…
Amanda Hampson
Amanda Hampson
Amanda Hampson grew up in rural New Zealand. She has lived in London and Sydney, and now lives in Melbourne. Writing professionally for more than…
Amanda Lohrey
Amanda Lohrey
Amanda Lohrey lives in Tasmania and writes fiction and non-fiction. She has taught Politics at the University of Tasmania and Writing and Textual Studies at…
Amy Lovat
Amy Lovat
Amy Lovat is a writer, editor and the founder of Secret Book Stuff. She has a PhD in English and Writing from the University of…
Amy Taylor
Amy Taylor
Amy Taylor is a writer living in Melbourne on Wurundjeri land. An adapted chapter of her debut novel, E, was selected as a winner in…
André Dao
André Dao
André Dao is a Melbourne-based writer, editor and artist. His debut novel, Anam, won the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. His writing…
Anna Downes
Anna Downes
Anna Downes grew up in Sheffield, UK. She studied drama at Manchester before winning a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and moving…
Anna Funder
Anna Funder
Anna is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and awarded writers. Her books STASILAND and ALL THAT I AM are prize-winning international bestsellers, translated into many…
Anna Johnston
Anna Johnston
Anna Johnston is a former baby, aspiring octogenarian, and emerging Australian author with a love for the heartfelt and hilarious. She grew up in country…
Annette Higgs
Annette Higgs
Annette Higgs is a writer living in Sydney, Australia. She was born and grew up in Tasmania, leaving on her 18th birthday to study literature…
Anthea Hodgson
Anthea Hodgson
Anthea Hodgson is a country girl from the WA wheatbelt. She likes all the usual stuff, from chocolate to puppies, and she loves a coffee,…
Aoife Clifford
Aoife Clifford
Aoife Clifford is the author of All These Perfect Strangers, which was longlisted for both the Australian Book Industry General Fiction Book of the Year…
Ayesha Inoon
Ayesha Inoon
Ayesha Inoon is a Sri Lankan-Australian writer with a unique cultural perspective, which she brings to her writing. Born in Colombo, she travelled widely and…
Benjamin Stevenson
Benjamin Stevenson
Benjamin Stevenson is an award-winning stand-up comedian and author. His first novel, Greenlight, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction,…
Bernice Barry
Bernice Barry
Originally from the Atlantic coast of England’s far southwest, Bernice Barry moved to Margaret River in 2001 and has spent the past 14 years creating a native…
Bri Lee
Bri Lee
Bri Lee is the multi-award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, Beauty and Who Gets to Be Smart. Her journalism, essays, and short stories have been published…
Briohny Doyle
Briohny Doyle
Briohny Doyle is the author of Echolalia, Adult Fantasy and The Island Will Sink. Her books have been recognised on lists for The Miles Franklin Literary Award,…
Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe is a Yuin, Bunurong, and Tasmanian writer and farmer. He has published thirty-six books, including the bestselling Dark Emu, which won the NSW…
Bryan Brown
Bryan Brown
Iconic Australian actor Bryan Brown became an international success in the early eighties with critical acclaim for performances in Breaker Morant and the TV series A Town…
Brydie Lee-Kennedy
Brydie Lee-Kennedy
Brydie Lee-Kennedy is an Australian screenwriter and author who splits her time between London and Sydney. She has written on shows for Netflix, Apple TV,…
Candice Fox
Candice Fox
Candice Fox is the author of nine solo novels, three of which have one Australia’s prestigious Ned Kelly Award. All of her novels have been…
Carrie Cox
Carrie Cox
Carrie Cox is a journalist, author, tutor, mother, and timid surfer, never all at once and not in that order. She grew up in Mackay,…
Cassie Hamer
Cassie Hamer
Cassie Hamer has a professional background in journalism and PR, but now much prefers the world of fiction over fact. In 2015, she completed a…
Catherine McKinnon
Catherine McKinnon
Catherine McKinnon lives in the Southern Highlands on Gundungurra land with her husband, painter and sculptor Gary Christian. She teaches creative writing at the University…
Cathryn Hein
Cathryn Hein
Cathryn Hein is a best-selling author of rural romance and romantic adventure novels, a Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year finalist with…
Charlotte Wood
Charlotte Wood
The Australian has described Charlotte Wood as ‘one of our most original and provocative writers.’She is the author of five novels and a book of non-fiction.…
Cheryl Adnams
Cheryl Adnams
Cheryl Adnams lives in Adelaide, South Australia. She has four Australian rural romance novels under her belt along with a Christmas novella and has now…
Chris Hammer
Chris Hammer
Chris Hammer was a journalist for more than thirty years, dividing his career between covering Australian federal politics and international affairs. For many years he…
Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley is the bestselling author of five novels: The Low Road, Bereft, Cairo, City of Crows and The Diplomat and the short story collection A Lovely and Terrible…
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of five novels: Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man, and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize…
Cienna Collins
Cienna Collins
Cienna Collins is a Melbourne‑based author of domestic noir suspense. Her books have won Queensland Writers Centre Publishable mentorships and have been longlisted for the…
Clare Fletcher
Clare Fletcher
Clare Fletcher was born and raised in St George, in regional Queensland, and studied journalism and business at QUT in Brisbane. After graduating she moved…
Darcy Tindale
Darcy Tindale
Darcy-Lee Tindale is the Speech & Drama Coordinator at Abbotsleigh School for Girls in Wahroonga NSW, actor, author, theatresports player, director and has appeared in…
David Whish-Wilson
David Whish-Wilson
Australian Crime Writer David Whish-Wilson is the West Australian author of nine novels, three creative non-fiction books, short stories, essays, reviews, and academic articles. He was…
Dervla McTiernan
Dervla McTiernan
Dervla McTiernan’s debut novel, The Ruin, was a critically acclaimed international bestseller published around the world. The Ruin won the Ned Kelly Award for Best…
Elise Esther Hearst
Elise Esther Hearst
Elise Esther Hearst is a Melbourne-based author and playwright. Elise trained in London at the Royal Court Theatre and her plays include Bright World, co-written with…
Emily Maguire
Emily Maguire
Emily Maguire is the author of seven novels and three non-fiction books. Her 2016 novel, An Isolated Incident, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the…
Emma Darragh
Emma Darragh
Emma Darragh lives and works on Dharawal Country. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong and her writing has appeared…
Emma Grey
Emma Grey
Emma is a novelist, feature writer, photographer, professional speaker and accountability coach. She has been writing fiction since she first fell for Anne of Green…
Eugen Bacon
Eugen Bacon
Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of several novels and collections. She’s a British Fantasy Award winner, a Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice…
Eva Scott
Eva Scott
Eva Scott is the best selling author of rural romcoms such as Lonely in Longreach and Meet Me in Bendigo. A life long storyteller, she…
Eve Blakely
Eve Blakely
Eve Blakely writes contemporary romance novels with an edge. She currently resides in a small town south of Sydney, Australia with her husband and two…
Finegan Kruckemeyer
Finegan Kruckemeyer
Finegan has had 101 commissioned plays performed on six continents and translated into eight languages. He has received 42 awards (at least one each year…
Fiona Lowe
Fiona Lowe
Fiona Lowe has been a midwife, a sexual health counsellor and a family support worker; an ideal career for an author who writes novels about…
Fiona McArthur
Fiona McArthur
In my other life from writing, and in my world as a wife, a mum and grandmum, I worked as a midwife. I’ve been a facilitator for a teenage…
Fiona McFarlane
Fiona McFarlane
Fiona McFarlane’s first novel, The Night Guest, won several prizes including the Voss Literary Prize and a New South Wales Premier’s Award. It was also…
Fiona McIntosh
Fiona McIntosh
Fiona McIntosh is an internationally bestselling author of novels for adults and children. She co-founded an award-winning travel magazine with her husband, which they ran…
Fleur McDonald
Fleur McDonald
Fleur McDonald is one of Australia’s leading rural literature authors, with her books becoming best sellers almost as quickly as they hit the shelves. She…
Garry Disher
Garry Disher
Garry Disher has published fifty titles across multiple genres. He has won multiple German Crime Prize and Ned Kelly awards, including the Ned Kelly Lifetime…
Graeme Simsion
Graeme Simsion
Graeme Simsion is a Melbourne-based novelist and screenwriter. The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect have combined global sales approaching five million copies. Graeme is…
Hayley Scrivenor
Hayley Scrivenor
Hayley Scrivenor is the author of Dirt Town, which was published internationally in 2022 (published as Dirt Creek in the U.S., where it was a USA TODAY bestseller) and…
Helen Signy
Helen Signy
Helen Signy is an Australian writer who grew up in England – or, depending how she feels that day, an English writer who lives in…
Helene Smith
Helene Smith
After a short nursing career, Helene married a school teacher and raised a large family, whilst all the time writing ‘covertly’ as a young mother…
Helene Young
Helene Young
I’m a writer, a pilot, a sailor, a photographer, and a recently retired airline captain, cruising the coast of Australia with my husband, Graham, aboard…
Iain Ryan
Iain Ryan
Iain Ryan grew up in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. He has published three previous crime novels, and his work has been published by…
J.P. Pomare
J.P. Pomare
J.P. Pomare is an award winning writer who has had work published in journals including Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Takahe and Mascara Literary Review. He…
Jack Adams
Jack Adams
Jack Adams is a Brisbane-based writer. He grew up in Toowoomba, Queensland, and has lived and worked in London, Melbourne and Sydney. He is married,…
Jack Heath
Jack Heath
Jack Heath is the pen name of a multi-award-winning Australian author. His mission is to create books that inspire a love of reading in children…
Jane Harrison
Jane Harrison
Jane Harrison is descended from the Muruwari people and is an award-winning playwright and author. Her first play Stolen has played across Australia and internationally, touring again…
Jane Sullivan
Jane Sullivan
Jane Sullivan is an author and literary journalist who loves books and has always written about them. She was born in England to Australian parents,…
Jane Tara
Jane Tara
Jane Tara has published over a hundred children’s books, several plays and five novels. She’s a daily meditator, a sucker for a rescue mutt and,…
Janet Gover
Janet Gover
I grew up surrounded by books. Both my parents loved to read and they shared that love with me. In the tiny Australian bush town…
Jennifer Scoullar
Jennifer Scoullar
As a child I was an avid reader, and felt a very special, secret connection with animals and plants. I wrote stories and poems, beginning…
Jessie Stephens
Jessie Stephens
Jessie Stephens is a Sydney-based writer and podcaster. She is an Executive Editor at Mamamia, Australia’s largest independent women’s media company. She co-hosts Mamamia’s flagship…
Jessie Tu
Jessie Tu
Jessie Tu is a book critic at The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and a journalist for Women’s Agenda. Her debut novel, A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, won…
Jo Dixon
Jo Dixon
Jo lives in rural Tasmania, where she wrangles an ever-growing collection of animals and is kept busy transforming blackberry-infested paddocks into beautiful gardens. She has…
Joan Sauers
Joan Sauers
Joan is a prolific writer with credits spanning Television, Film and Books. For Television, Joan is currently developing Ladies in Black for Bunya and the…
Jock Serong
Jock Serong
Jock Serong grew up in Melbourne’s suburbs but has been drifting ever since. As a young lawyer, he worked with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service…
Jodi Gibson
Jodi Gibson
Jodi Gibson is an Australian author of contemporary women’s fiction, or as she likes to call it: fiction with all the feels. Her debut novel, a…
Judy Nunn
Judy Nunn
Judy Nunn’s career has been long, illustrious, and multifaceted. After combining her internationally successful acting career with scriptwriting for television and radio, Judy decided in…
Julia Levitina
Julia Levitina
Julia Levitina designed sets and costumes for Moscow Theatre before immigrating to Australia in 1991 with two children and $200 to her name. She completed…
Julie Janson
Julie Janson
Julie Janson is a Burruberongal woman of Darug Aboriginal Nation. Her career as a playwright began when she wrote and directed plays in remote Australian…
Karen Brooks
Karen Brooks
Karen Brooks was born in Sydney to an Israeli immigrant and, according to her family, was always a dreamer, even when her life became a…
Kate Forsyth
Kate Forsyth
Dr Kate Forsyth is an award-winning author, poet, and storyteller. Her most recent novel is The Crimson Thread, a reimagining of ‘The Minotaur in the…
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville has published more than ten books, including several about the writing process. Her novels have been published all over the world, and have…
Kate Kruimink
Kate Kruimink
Kate Kruimink is a writer from southern Tasmania. Her first novel, A Treacherous Country, received the 2020 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award.
Kate Mildenhall
Kate Mildenhall
Kate Mildenhall is a writer who lives on the outskirts of Melbourne with her family. Her debut novel, Skylarking, was published in Australia by Black…
Kate Solly
Kate Solly
Kate Solly is a writer, mother of six and really quite good at getting the bubbles out of plastic book wrap. While most of her…
Katerina Gibson
Katerina Gibson
Katerina Gibson (1994) is a writer and bookseller living in Naarm. Her debut collection Women I Know won the 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction,…
Kathy Lette
Kathy Lette
Kathy Lette divides her time between being a full time writer, demented mother (now there’s a tautology) and trying to find a shopping trolley that…
Kaye Dobbie
Kaye Dobbie
Looking back, I always seemed to be writing something, but the first time I actually thought I might make a career as a writer was…
Kerry Taylor
Kerry Taylor
Originally from Sydney, Kerry’s life so far has been as unpredictable as it has varied – not unlike Bill Smith’s. After a career teaching in…
Kirsty Manning
Kirsty Manning
Kirsty Manning is the bestselling author of The Paris Mystery, The French Gift, The Lost Jewels and The Jade Lily (published in North America and UK as The Song…
Kylie Kaden
Kylie Kaden
With a surfer-lawyer for a husband and three spirited sons, Kylie Kaden stays sane (and avoids the housework) by making things up for a living. The…
Lainie Anderson
Lainie Anderson
Lainie Anderson has been a weekly columnist with Adelaide’s Sunday Mail since 2007, and previously worked at the Herald Sun in Melbourne and the Times…
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of a short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016), and three novels, Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe,…
Laura Jean McKay
Laura Jean McKay
Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country (Scribe, 2020) – winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Victorian Prize for Literature,…
Leah Kaminsky
Leah Kaminsky
Leah Kaminsky’s debut novel The Waiting Room won the Voss Literary Prize and was shortlisted for the Helen Asher Award (Vintage Australia 2015, Harper Perennial US 2016). Her second novel, The…
Lee Christine
Lee Christine
In 2009, former corporate trainer Lee Christine decided to turn her writing hobby into a serious day job. Lee is the author of six romantic…
Léonie Kelsall
Léonie Kelsall
Léonie grew up in South Australia, initially on the beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula in a tiny town where the school had a total enrolment of only…
Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty is an Australian author. She has written nine novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, which were adapted into television series…
Lily Malone
Lily Malone
Lily Malone might have been a painter, except her year-old son put a golf club through her canvas. So she wrote her first book, His Brand…
Lisa Kenway
Lisa Kenway
Lainie Anderson has been a weekly columnist with Adelaide’s Sunday Mail since 2007, and previously worked at the Herald Sun in Melbourne and the Times…
Liz Foster
Liz Foster
I’m a British-Australian fiction writer of stuff, viewed through a whimsical lens. After years doing all sorts of business and professional writing I started making…
Lucy Campbell
Lucy Campbell
Lucy Campbell has worked as a writer and sub-editor across magazines, newspapers and non-fiction books. Lowbridge is her first novel. She lives in Canberra with her husband…
Lucy Treloar
Lucy Treloar
Lucy Treloar was born in Malaysia and educated in England, Sweden, and Melbourne. Her novel Salt Creek (2015) won the Dobbie Literary Award among others, and…
Madeleine Gray
Madeleine Gray
Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written arts criticism for SRB, Overland, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly,…
Mandy Magro
Mandy Magro
It’s my dream that through my writing I’m able to give readers a taste of the beautiful Australian countryside, from the dust on your face, the smell…
Margaret Hickey
Margaret Hickey
Margaret was born in London to Australian parents and grew up in small country towns across Victoria. She studied in Melbourne and has travelled extensively…
Matthew Reilly
Matthew Reilly
Matthew Reilly was born in Sydney in 1974 and studied Law at the University of New South Wales. He has written both screenplays and magazine…
Megan Rogers
Megan Rogers
Megan Rogers began her working life as an editorial assistant at Allen & Unwin, before moving to the State Library of Victoria, in Marketing. In…
Mel A Rowe
Mel A Rowe
Australian Bestselling Author, Mel A ROWE creates romantic escapes for today’s busy readers to enjoy from the comfort of their home. Living in Australia’s final…
Melanie Cheng
Melanie Cheng
Melanie Cheng is an award-winning author and general practitioner from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Her short story collection, Australia Day, won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award…
Melanie Saward
Melanie Saward
Melanie Saward is a proud descendant of the Bigambul and Wakka Wakka peoples. She is a writer, editor, and university lecturer based in Tulmur (Ipswich),…
Melissa Ashley
Melissa Ashley
Melissa Ashley is a writer, poet, birder, and academic who tutors in poetry and creative writing at the University of Queensland. She has published a…
Melissa Lucashenko
Melissa Lucashenko
Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Since 1997 Melissa has been widely published as an award-winning novelist, essayist, and short…
Meredith Appleyard
Meredith Appleyard
Meredith Appleyard lives in the Clare Valley wine-growing region of South Australia. As a registered nurse and midwife, she has worked in a wide range…
Michael Trant
Michael Trant
Michael Trant is a WA country boy now residing in Perth after a variety of careers ranging from farmer, marine draftsman, pastoralist and FIFO pot…
Michelle Prak
Michelle Prak
Michelle Prak is a professional communicator with a thirty-year career in corporate communication, social media, politics and journalism. Writing has been the backbone of much…
Mikki Brammer
Mikki Brammer
Mikki Brammer is an Australian writer based in New York City. She spent her childhood in Tasmania before living in several different parts of Australia,…
Molly Schmidt
Molly Schmidt
Molly Schmidt is a writer and journalist from the coastal town of Albany, Western Australia. Molly is passionate about producing stories that are inclusive of…
Myfanwy Jones
Myfanwy Jones
Myfanwy Jones is the author of Leap, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award, and The Rainy Season, which was a finalist…
Nadine J. Cohen
Nadine J. Cohen
Nadine J. Cohen, also known as Nadine von Cohen, is a writer and refugee advocate from Sydney. Her musings can be found all over the…
Naima Brown
Naima Brown
Naima Brown holds degrees in Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology and Religious Studies. Her non-fiction has appeared in Vogue Australia, the Guardian Australia, and more. She has spent…
Natalie Conyer
Natalie Conyer
Natalie Conyer was born and grew up in Cape Town, but has lived in Sydney for many years. She’s a crime fiction tragic, so much…
Natasha Lester
Natasha Lester
Natasha Lester worked as a marketing executive for L’Oréal, managing the Maybelline brand, before returning to university to study creative writing. She completed a Master…
Nicola Moriarty
Nicola Moriarty
Nicola Moriarty lives in Sydney’s northwest with her husband and two bright, kind (and remarkably strong-willed) teenagers. She is the younger sister of bestselling authors…
Nicole Hurley-Moore
Nicole Hurley-Moore
Nicole has always been a lover of fairy tales, history and romance. She grew up in both the city and a rural town. Loves to…
Nina Kenwood
Nina Kenwood
Nina Kenwood won the Text Prize for her debut YA novel, It Sounded Better in My Head, which went on to be published in six…
Nova Weetman
Nova Weetman
NOVA WEETMAN is a writer for books, film and television. She received an AWGIE nomination for best short screenplay and the Best Short Film Award…
Pamela Cook
Pamela Cook
Pamela Cook writes page-turning women’s fiction set in escape-worthy places. Her novels feature tangled family relationships, the ups and downs of friendship and explore life…
Pamela Cook
Pamela Cook
Pamela Cook is an author, podcaster, and teacher who writes page-turning contemporary women’s fiction, delving deep into the psychology of her characters and the complexity…
Paula J. Beavan
Paula J. Beavan
Paula J. Beavan grew up on the banks of the Hunter River where her love of a reading and a good yarn inspired a desire…
Penelope Janu
Penelope Janu
A few years ago, after a fulfilling career as a lawyer and legal academic, I thought it was time to start writing the kinds of…
Peter Polites
Peter Polites
Peter Polites is a writer of Greek descent from Western Sydney. As part of the SWEATSHOP writers collective, Peter has written and performed pieces all…
Pip Finkemeyer
Pip Finkemeyer
Pip Finkemeyer’s fiction has been listed for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, the Disquiet Literary Prize and nominated…
Pip Williams
Pip Williams
Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney, and now lives in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia with her family and an…
Rachael Johns
Rachael Johns
Rachael Johns is an English teacher by trade, a mum 24/7, a Diet Coke addict, a cat lover and chronic arachnophobe. She rarely sleeps and…
Rachael Johns
Rachael Johns
Rachael Johns is an English teacher by trade, a mum 24/7, a Diet Coke addict, a cat lover and chronic arachnophobe. She rarely sleeps and…
Rachael Mead
Rachael Mead
Rachael Mead is a poet, short story writer, arts reviewer, and bookseller living in South Australia. She’s had an eclectic life, working as an archaeologist,…
Rachael Treasure
Rachael Treasure
Tasmanian-born Rachael Treasure is a best-selling author, regenerative agriculturalist, and mother. A graduate of universities in Orange and Bathurst, Rachael uses story to empower women…
Rick Feneley
Rick Feneley
Rick Feneley was born at Bulli in 1962 and has lived for most of his adult life at Bondi, where he and his wife, Donna,…
Robbie Arnott
Robbie Arnott
Robbie Arnott is the author of the novel Flames, which won the Margaret Scott Prize, was short-listed for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for Fiction, the Guardian…
Robyn Cadwallader
Robyn Cadwallader
Robyn is an editor and writer who lives in the country outside Canberra. She has published poems, prize-winning short stories and reviews, a poetry collection, i…
Rodney Hall
Rodney Hall
Rodney Hall is an author with an international reputation. His books have been published in the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia, also in translation…
S.L. Davies
S.L. Davies
S L Davies is an Australian author living in Regional Victoria. She writes dark romance with taboo elements in both M/M, Reverse Harem and M/F…
Sally Hepworth
Sally Hepworth
Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, most recently The Soulmate. Her novel, The Mother-In-Law (2019), has been optioned for…
Sarah A. Parker
Sarah A. Parker
Sarah is an international bestselling autho​r who​ grew up on a farm in New Zealand, where she spent her days getting lost amongst the rolling…
Sarah Barrie
Sarah Barrie
Sarah Barrie is a bestselling Australian author writing suspense in rural settings, with a generous splash of romance. Her debut bestselling print novel, Secrets of…
Sarah Smith
Sarah Smith
Sarah Smith is one of Australia’s most experienced TV drama writers and showrunners. Her credits include Amazing Grace, Bite Club, Love Child, House of Bond, Winter,…
Sasha Wasley
Sasha Wasley
Sasha Wasley was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. She has completed a PhD in cultural theory and loves nature, Jane Austen and puns.…
Shankari Chandran
Shankari Chandran
Shankari Chandran was raised in Canberra, Australia. She spent a decade in London, working as a lawyer in the social justice field. She eventually returned…
Sharlene Allsopp
Sharlene Allsopp
Sharlene Allsopp was born and raised on Bundjalung country and dreams of capturing that elusive perfect sentence-preferably liquored up in a Champagne field in France.…
Shelley Burr
Shelley Burr
WAKE won the CWA Debut Dagger in 2019 and was previously shortlisted for both the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award and the Bath Novel…
Shirley Patton
Shirley Patton
Dr Shirley Patton grew up in outback Western Australia and now lives with her partner, and a miniature schnauzer, in wine-growing country overlooking the beautiful Tamar…
Stella Quinn
Stella Quinn
Stella Quinn has had a love affair with books since she first discovered the alphabet. She lives in sunny Queensland now, but has lived in…
Sue Williams
Sue Williams
Sue Williams is an award-winning journalist and columnist who’s written for all of Australia’s leading newspapers and magazines. She also appears frequently on TV and…
Sulari Gentill
Sulari Gentill
Once upon a time, Sulari Gentill was a corporate lawyer serving as a director on public boards, with only a vague disquiet that there was…
Susannah Begbie
Susannah Begbie
Susannah Begbie grew up in rural New South Wales on a sheep farm and is now a GP who has worked all over Australia. In…
Suzie Miller
Suzie Miller
Suzie Miller is a contemporary international playwright, librettist, and screenwriter drawn to complex human stories often exploring injustice. She has often been described as a…
Tea Cooper
Tea Cooper
Tea is an established Australian author of contemporary and historical fiction. In a past life she was a teacher, a journalist and a farmer. These…
Tess Woods
Tess Woods
Tess once had a simple life until her compulsion to write made-up stories complicated everything. She’s now an award winning and best selling author of contemporary…
Tony Birch
Tony Birch
Tony Birch is the author of three novels: the bestselling The White Girl, winner of the 2020 NSW Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing, and shortlisted for…
Trent Dalton
Trent Dalton
Trent Dalton is the author of Boy Swallows Universe (HarperCollins, 2018), a critically acclaimed national bestseller and winner of the 2019 Indie Book of the Year…
Tricia Stringer
Tricia Stringer
Tricia Stringer is a bestselling author of novels across three genres: women’s fiction, historical saga and rural romance. Her first book, Queen of the Road, won…
Trish Morey
Trish Morey
Trish always fancied herself a writer, so she dutifully picked gherkins and washed dishes in a Chinese restaurant on her way to earning herself an…
Veronica Lando
Veronica Lando
Veronica Lando is an Australian crime author who won the 2021 Banjo Prize for her then-unpublished manuscript The Whispering. As a child, she grew up above…
Vidya Madabushi
Vidya Madabushi
Vidya Madabushi is an Indian writer living in Sydney. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sydney, and her first novel, Bystanders,…
Ya Reeves
Ya Reeves
Ya Reeves is a freelance outdoor and environmental educator from Far East Gippsland. Following her parent’s footsteps, she studied for a bachelor of outdoor education…
Zoe Coyle
Zoe Coyle
Zoe Coyle, is an author, speaker, leadership facilitator, and communications training leader, with experience that spans 20 years. Zoe’s experience intersects coaching, writing, directing, acting,…
Zoe Foster Blake
Zoe Foster Blake
She is the founder and CCO of Australian skin care line, Go-To, which launched in 2014. Go-To was informed by a decade working as a beauty editor,…

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