Mary Donaldson
Crown Princess of Denmark
LA Larkin
LA Larkin is a writer whose crime thrillers include, The Genesis Flaw, Thirst, Widow’s Island, The Safe Place, Her Deadly Place, First Victim. She also writes cozy mysteries under Louisa Lawson.
Jacinta Tynan
Sky News Australia presenter and author of Good Man Hunting.
Sam de Brito
Sun-Herald columnist, Script Editor of White Collar Blue, Water Rats, Author of No Tattoos Before You’re Thirty, The Lost Boys.
Elizabeth Packett
Elizabeth is a writer and script editor with credits including Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Secret Life of Us, McLeod’s Daughters.
Julia Zemiro
Radio host, actor, singer and television presenter.
Carl Barron
Carl, is a writer and comedian. His Carl Barron Live is the highest selling stand-up comedy DVD in Australian history.
Yasmin Boland
Journalist and author of Carole King is an Alien and All the Rage
Claudia Karvan
Actress, writer, producer of Spirited, Love My Way, Paperback Hero.
Sharon Aris
Author of It’s My Party and I’ll Knit if I Want To, Being Married
Caroline Gerard
Writer and producer of feature film The Bet and producer of Life in Day.
Simon Tedeschi
Award winning classical pianist and musician.
Samantha Lang
Screenwriter & Director, The Well, The Killing Field, Carlotta.
Natalie Saleeba
Actor, House Husbands, Winners & Losers, Neighbours, All Saints
Rosamund Burton
Author and freelance journalist for SMH, and the Daily Telegraph. Rosamund’s book Castles, Follies and Four-Leaf Clovers: Adventures Along Ireland’s St Declan’s Way is published by Allen & Unwin.
Fiona Seres
Fiona Seres is a Writer, Actor, Creator, Head of Story, Screenplay, and Producer. Some of their work includes Strangerland, The Lady Vanishes, Satisfaction, Tangle, Love My Way, The Surgeon.
Krew Boylan
Actor Wild Boys, All Saints, Rescue Special Ops, Shappelle. Writer of, and actor in the feature film, Seriously Red.
Rachel Ward
Actor and director and writer of the feature film Beautiful Kate.
Denise Scott
Denise is one of Australia’s best loved comedian & actors appearing in TV shows such as Spicks & Specks, The Project.
Anne Boyd
Anne Elizabeth Boyd AM, is an Australian composer and emeritus professor of music at the University of Sydney.
Karen M. Davis
Author of the crime novels, Sinister Intent & Deadly Obsession, published by Simon & Schuster
Elizabeth Farrelly
Author, architecture critic, essayist, and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald. Elizabeth’s novel, Caro was Here is published by Walker Books.
Rachael Oakes-Ash
Journalist and author, Good Girls Do Swallow, Anything She Can Do I Can Do Better.
Julia Stone
Julia is an ARIA award wining Australian musician.
Vanessa Stubbs
Author of Star Attraction, published by Penguin.
Caroline Baum
Caroline is an journalist and radio and television broadcaster.
Jessica Tovey
Actor – Wolf Creek, Wonderland, Underbelly.
Anna Spargo-Ryan
Author, The Paper House published by Pan McMillian
Matt Sherring
Co-writer of the feature film, Killer Elite starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro
Jessica Hobbs
Winner of a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, AACTA Award for Best Direction in Television.
Sandra Sully
Journalist and television newsreader and presenter.
Harry Greenwood
Harry Greenwood is an actor, known for Hacksaw Ridge, Pacific, and The Nightingale.
Rachael Blake
Award winning actor, Wildside, Rake, Lantana, Sleeping Beauty.
Scott Roberts
Writer and director of the feature film The Hard Word, starring Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths and Joel Edgerton.
Josh Capelin
Creative Director, TV Producer including Andy & Ben Do Mexico, Andy & Ben Eat the World.
Sasha Horler
Award winning Australian actor.
Dan Wylie
Actor, Muriel’s Wedding, Romper Stomper, Love My Way, Underbelly
Gyton Grantley
Actor, Underbelly, House Husbands.
Doug Mulray
Australian comedian, radio and television presenter.
Bianca Dye
Radio announcer, NOVA, 20 to 1, The 7pm Project, Thank God You’re Here.
Ashley Hay
Journalist/author, The Body in the Clouds, The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabelle Milbanke & Lord Byron.
Phillip Hearnshaw
Assistant director, Babe, Babe: Pig in the City, The Punisher, La Spagnola
Simmone Jade Mackinnon
Actor, City Homicide, Cops: LAC, Rescue Special Ops, McLeod’s Daughters
Carla Coulson
Author and photographer, Paris Tango, Italian Joy, Chasing a Dream.
Erina Reddan
Journalist, ABC foreign correspondent, author, non-fiction: Baby Daze, fiction: Water from the Moon, Lilia’s Secret & The Serpent’s Skin.
Margaret Sixel
Academy Award Winner Film Editor of Mad Max Fury Road, Happy Feet, Babe: Pig in the City.
Sandra Nori
Former NSW Government Minister and Member of Macquarie University Council.
Clive Hamilton
Australian public intellectual & Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Vice-Chancellor’s Chair.
Anna Coren
Reporter and presenter, CNN International, Today Tonight.
Meryl Tankard
Broadway choreographer, Tarzan the Musical
Tony Barry
Actor, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, Australia, All Saints.
Caroline Roessler
Former managing editor of The Australian Women’s Weekly, the Hoopla and the Barossa Living Magazine.
Emma Balfour
Model, poet, author.
Anthony Ackroyd
Comedian and writer.
Hugh Riminton
CNN correspondent, Meet the Press and news presenter.
Mandy Newman
Author: How to Say I Do: Make Your Civil Marriage Ceremony Your Own
Penny Robinson
Author, Executive Producer of RPA television series.
Ruth Ostrow
Columnist, author, blogger and feature writer for The Australian.
Kay Pavlou
Director, Gangs of Oz, All Saints, Who Do You Think You Are?, McLeod’s Daughters
Rob Pullan
Journalist and author, titles inlcude Guilty Secrets, Bob Hawke: A Portrait and Bob Ansett: An Autobiography.
Kevin Rozzoli
Former State MP and Speaker, author Gavel to Gavel – An Insider’s View of Parliament.
Rebecca Rocheford Davies
Actor, writer, producer.
John Mavety
Award-winning director and writer, Behind Mansion Walls, Deadly Women, Earthpulse, award-winning True Crime series, including The Good Cop, Murder in the Outback , and Deadly Women (14 seasons on the Discovery Network). Other credits include White Rabbit Project (Netflix) and Exposed: The Ghost Train Fire (ABC).
Sue MacKinnon
Former FFC Investment Manager, Documentaries and producer Shark Island Productions: Stories of Me, Paul Kelly
Rob Johnson
Editor, journalist and author The Golden Age of the Argonauts and Boom-Boom! A Century of Australian Comedy.
Lisa Forrest
Australian athlete, radio and TV broadcaster, and writer and author of books, including Making the Most of It, DJ Max, Meg Banana, Boycott.
Katerina Cosgrove
Author, The Glass Heart, Bone Ash Sky, Zorba The Buddha.
Peter McDonald
Animator, Animal Logic, Happy Feet, Teen Wolf, Puss in Boots.
Martyn Ives
Documentary film maker, Emmy Award winner, National Geographic Taboo, How Beer Saved the World, Prototype This!, Monster Bug Wars, If.
Mark Gould
Documentary film maker, producer, Tibet: Murder in the Snow, Rising Stars.
Helen O'Connor
Actor, Packed to the Rafters, Crownies, All Saints, Babe, Frauds, The Beast.
Alec Morgan
Actor, Director, Writer, Hunt Angels, Beautiful Bondi, Our Century, Dusty Hearts.
Nick Lathouris
Actor, dramaturg and writer including Mad Max movies.
Theresa Miller
Television reporter, presenter and producer and author of Making Babies.
Roxane Wilson
Actor, Home and Away, City Homicide, Rescue Special Ops, The Alice, Stingers, Water Rats.
Dr Ruth Wajnryb
Linguist, columnist for SMH, and author of Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language.
Matt Duffy
Director, Writer and Producer.
Jess Black
Jess is an author. She has written 12 books in the Bindi Wildlife Adventure Series, 3 titles in the RSPCA Animal Tales series amongst her other titles.
Jamie Hilton
Australian film and television producer, and founder of See Pictures. His film productions include Sleeping Beauty, The Waiting City and Breath.
Gerry O' Sullivan
Author of the Gangsters of Shanghai.
Alex Gilly
Alex is a writer and translator and the author of Devil’s Harbor and Death Rattle published Tor/Forge NY. His latest book is a biography, James Fairfax Portrait of a collector in eleven objects.
Nigel Bartlett
Nigel is a journalist and author. His debut novel, King of the Road is published by Random House.
Helen Thurloe
Helen is an award-winning poet and author, a Varuna Scholarship recipient, her debut novel, Promising Azra is published by Allen & Unwin.
Shannon Garner
Shannon’s book Labour of Love is published by Simon & Schuster.
Lia Weston
Lia is the author of the Fortunes of Ruby White, published by Simon and Schuster and the Those Pleasant Girls published by Pan Macmillan.
Ged Gillmore
Author of Bill Murdoch Mystery series published by Headland.
Ali Gripper
Award winning journalist, columnist and author of Barefoot Surgeon, published by Allen & Unwin.
Maya Linnell
Maya is an author who lives in regional Victoria. Her novels include Wildflower Ridge, Bottlebrush Creek, Magpie’s Bend, Paperbark Hill, Kookaburra Cottage, are published by Allen & Unwin.
Cait Duggan
Cait is a lawyer and author. Her debut novel The Last Balfour is published by Harper Collins.
Sarah Thorton
Sarah was an award winning lawyer, and now a full-time author. Her novels Lapse and White Throat are published by Text Publishing.
Loraine Peck
Author, Loraine Peck started her career as a portrait painter before being propelled into a career in marketing. Her novel’s Second Son and Double Bind are published by Text Publishing.
Siobhan O’Brien
Siobhan is an author. Her debut novel, All the Golden Light, is published by HarperCollins Publishers.
Susannah Glenn
Susannah’s debut novel, Between Husbands and Wives is published by Pantera Press.
Zoe Coyle
Zoe is the founder & director of Pilot Light Consulting, a NIDA graduate and actor. Her novels, Where the Light Gets In and The Dangers of Female Provocation are published by Ultimo Press.
Emma Lord
Emma’s debut novel, Anomaly, published by Affirm Press, won the both the NSW Literary Prize for Young Adult Fiction and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for Young Adult Fiction. Emma is also an award-winning copywriter and advertising creative and written for various publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald and Huffington Post.
Leona Thacker
Lenora Thaker is a Meriam and Wagedagam woman born and raised on Gimuy-Walubarra Yidinji country in FN Queensland. Her debut novel, The Pearl of Tagai Town is published by Text Publishing.
Nadia Mahjouri
Nadia Mahjouri, is a Moroccan Australian writer, counsellor, and group facilitator specialising in maternal mental health. Nadia’s debut novel, Half Truth is published by Penguin Random House.
Jelena Curic
Jelena Curic’s debut novel, Sing to Me has been acquired by Westwords Books. Jelena is a writer of literary fiction, crime and comedy. Her stories can be found in BAD Western Sydney and BAD Western Sydney: The Second Case, Living Stories: The Other City, Short Stories Unlimited Leaving Home Anthology.
Jo Skinner
Jo’s, new novel, A World of Silence, is published by Hawkeye Publishing. Jo’s debut novel The Truth About My Daughter is also published by Hawkeye Publishing.
Julia Levitina
Julia’s debut novel, The Girl From Moscow, is published by HarperCollins Publishers. Julia Levitina is a historical fiction writer and author based in Sydney and is currently working on her second novel.
Annika Johansson
Annika’s, debut novel, Downstream, is published by Echo Publishing. Annika holds a Bachelor of Business Communications (Marketing and Advertising) which took her around the world creating wacky and whimsical scenarios for TV and print.
