Authors in August
All month STA are featuring Authors, our story tellers and the creators of worlds. Local writers, some famous others emerging who share words through story, poem and script. Both fiction and non-fiction.
If you’re an author living in the STA region and would like to learn more about being part of Authors in August please email us at, [email protected]
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Meet our Authors in August
Jenny Bott AO
Jenny has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of our nation with leadership roles at the Australia Council, NIDA and Bundanon, where she is
Kimi Hall
Kimi is a devoted teacher & burgeoning author and illustrator of quality children’s literature. Raised as a biracial child of a single parent home, surrounded
Harry Laing | Poet
Harry Laing is a poet, children’s author, creative writing teacher and comic performer.
Tanya Nellestein
Ink Business Award-winning, best-selling author and journalist, Tanya Nellestein, writes page-turning, gut-churning Viking romance, romantic suspense, domestic thrillers and crime mysteries. I offer a range
Marjorie Kay
My stories are for the young and young at heart. The animals tell their tales about real events. I have written and illustrated I Know
Lizz Murphy
Binalong’s Lizz Murphy writes in a variety of styles from prose poetry to micro poetry and often incorporates found text. Lizz’ ninth poetry title The
Peter Ramm
Peter Ramm is a Poet and teacher based in the Southern Highlands has been widely published in Australian academic and literary journals and has won
Naomi Brown
Naomi H Brown is an Australian horror writer. Her most recent book, Reign of Flesh is an adrenaline-fueled apocalyptic horror story about one young woman’s
Bonnie Wynne
Bonnie Wynne is the author of the Aurealis-shortlisted fantasy novel ‘The Ninth Sorceress’ (Talem Press, 2020). She has since released a further four novels in
Andrew Einspruch
I’m an expat Texan living in Australia, and the author of the humorous fantasy series The Western Lands and All That Really Matters., which, if you
Andrew Moss
Andrew is a writer and teacher who has lived in the UK, Japan and currently Australia. Of Anglo-Ghanaian heritage, his work seeks to explore and
Marjo Hallowell
Marjo Hallowell has been writing as long as she can remember. Find out more about Marjo
Judith Nangala Crispin
Indigenous Artist on on unceded Ngambri-Ngunnawal Country.
Rhian Williams
Local Southern Tablelands author Rhiân Williams celebrated the release of her very first picture book – Ten Little Figs, It was published by Walker Books and is for budding readers aged three to six.
Creative Directory
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Creative & Professional Opportunities for Writers
Do you write? Reach new audiences and Lovers of Words. Be part of the STA Creative Directory. FREE for STA Members
SnapWrite The Gunning Arts Festival invites STA region residents to submit photo stories celebrating our region. Check out the SnapWrite FB space.
Lambing Flat Regional FAW (YOUNG) NSW2022 Writing Competition Calling all Writers!! Help them celebrate their 40th annual writing competition. Closes 14 October
Enterprise Plus Centre (formerly SRBEC) Professional development, workshops, support with social media, marketing and much more.
Do you have a story bout Bargo, Tahmoor or Picton to tell? We’d love to see talk to you about publishing your story and images online. Find out more
Applications open for the Writing NSW mentoring program for emerging writers from Indigenous or culturally diverse backgrounds. Closes August 14
VAMP ENCOUNTER
Applications are now open for writers across Regional NSW to produce a work about a museum they love, are intrigued by, or simply can’t get out of their head!
Closes August 12
FREE Writers Talk at Goulburn Mulwaree Library. Join historians Catherine Bishop and Richard White for an entertaining afternoon of unexpected history. Aug 23, 1.30 to 3.30pm. BOOK HERE
Writing NSW Varuna Fellowships Closes 5 September 2022. Awarded annually to writers who have a work of fiction, creative non-fiction, a play, or a suite of poems that is ready for the next stage of development. |
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