(Best-selling) Authors
Lisa Clifford
The founder of the Art of Writing, writing feeds Lisa's heart and soul. Her broad range of books have won her the Australian Victorian Premier's Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing, as well as The Australian Illustrated Book of the Year award. Now, she has made it her mission to share her love of writing with others. A creative writing guest lecturer at Florida State University, she runs retreats year round in Florence and Brisbane.
Jane Corry
"I went from writing features on Woman’s Own magazine to working with men who had committed the worst crimes possible," she says. "It altered my life – and my writing." Jane Corry is a six-times Sunday Times best-selling author, published by Penguin. She is also a Washington Post best-seller and has sold over a million copies worldwide in over 20 countries including the USA.
Suzanne Daniel
Suzanne Daniel is an Art of Writing writer with stunning success in the literary world. With her first book, Allegra in Three Parts, Suzanne won the 2020 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction. A fabulous achievement.
Lee Christine
Lee is the author of three crime novels with romantic elements set in Australia’s iconic Snowy Mountains.
Carrie Cox
Carrie is a senior journalist, author, mum and timid surfer, usually not in that order. After 20 years of writing and editing for newspapers and magazines across Australia, Carrie wrote her first novel Afternoons With Harvey Beam, published by Fremantle Press in 2018. It was hailed as a ‘brilliant debut’ by The Australian Women’s Weekly and ‘sensitive and impressive’ by The Australian.
R.W.R. McDonald
Rob's debut novel, The Nancys, won Best First Novel in the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards, as well as being a finalist in the Best Novel category. It was shortlisted for Best First Novel in the 2020 Ned Kelly Awards, and Highly Commended for an Unpublished Manuscript in the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Rob’s second novel,Nancy Business was published in June 2021 and was longlisted for the 2022 Ngaio Marsh Awards, Best Novel.
Tabitha Bird
Tabitha is the author of magical realism novels with heart published with Penguin Random House. Her debut, A Lifetime of Impossible Days, won the QLD Literary Award- People’s Choice in 2020. In 2021, she won the 2021 QLD Writer’s Fellowship for the production of her third novel and her second novel, The Emporium of Imagination, was published.
Angela Slatter
Angela Slatter is the author of five novels, including The Path of Thorns, one of Oprah’s Daily Top 25 Fantasy Books of 2022. Her debut novel Vigil was longlisted for the 2018 Dublin Literary Award. She’s also written eleven short story collections, including The Bitterwood Bible and The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, and three novellas.
Ashley Kalagian-Blunt
Ashley Kalagian-Blunt is the number-one bestselling author of Dark Mode, a psychological thriller published in multiple territories and languages. Dark Mode was shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and was voted number 20 in the Better Reading Top 100.