Lincoln Rawlin’s first book, Sprout’s Idea, was published when he was just eight years old.

Andrea Barton is an award-winning author and fiction editor who writes the Jade Riley mystery series.

Starting with The Godfather of Dance, A Killer Among Friends is book two. She runs Brightside Story Studio, a book editing business for fiction and memoir and is vice president of Mansfield Readers & Writers.

Her other writing credits include The Winding Narrative blog, several short stories, two picture books and nine stage productions about contemporary social issues. She has co-authored and edited two anthologies about expatriate life.

For more info, visit www.andreabartonauthor.com

Mark Whittaker is a Walkley Award winning journalist and author who has authored, co-authored and/or ghostwritten 14 books.

Amra Pajalić is an award-winning author, editor and teacher who draws on her Bosnian cultural heritage to write own voices stories for young people, who like her, are searching to mediate their identity and take pride in their diverse culture.

Alex Adsett is a literary agent and publishing consultant with almost 30 years’ experience. She has worked at S&S UK, Penguin Australia and Wiley and launched Alex Adsett Literary in 2008. She represents over 40 authors and illustrators, including Melissa Lucashenko, Peter Greste, Jodi McAlister and Isobelle Carmody.

Casey Rae is the author of James and Elle: Part-memoir, Part-fiction which came out in February this year.

She lives on the mid north coast of NSW with her husband and two wildflower children. She is passionate about good food, wellbeing and creating a better future for our young people. With fifteen years of experience working in education, she knows how important it is for people to have access to engaging literature that promotes deep thinking around mental health and relationships. 

Casey talks to Hembury Books about the genres of hybrid memoir and autofiction, and why she made the decision to write a hybrid memoir rather than a work of either fiction or memoir.

For more information, visit https://www.caseyraeauthor.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-rae-thompson-b0246262/

Blake Atwood is a book coach, developmental editor, and ghostwriter based in Texas. He has partnered with nonfiction authors like James Clear of Atomic Habits, who thanked Blake in the acknowledgements section of his bestselling book "for transforming my ugly and insanely long first drafts into a tight, readable manuscript."

Adam Courtenay is an author and business journalist who has written five non-fiction books including Amazon Men, published in the UK by Endeavour Press (2015), as well as The Ship that Never Was (2018) The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter (2020) and Three Sheets in the Wind (2022) for Harper Collins imprint, ABC Books.

Jessica Friedmann is the author of a new book about tarot in contemporary culture called 22 Impressions: Notes from the Major Arcana. It was published by Scribe in October. Her first book was published in 2017 and it is called Things That Helped and it is a memoir of essays describing her recovery from postpartum depression.

Will Yeoman is CEO of Writing WA, Western Australia's peak body for the writing sector. An experienced journalist, Will has been a contributor to The West Australian for nearly 20 years, as well as a music critic for Gramophone and Limelight magazines.

His short memoir Holy Family was recently published as part of Night Parrot Press' anthology Our Selves: 100 Micro Memoirs.

Will is also Artistic Director of Perth Festival Writers Weekend and York Regional Writers Festival.

Learn more here:

https://www.writingwa.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-yeoman-6b3894317/?originalSubdomain=au