The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers
Established in memory of beloved YA author Steph Bowe, the Prize is designed to support an unpublished Australian YA writer under 25. www.stephboweprize.com
@bethanyloveridge.bsky.social
Children’s author/illustrator — debut #LoveOzMG Sep 2025! Film/TV, Visual Art teacher & curriculum expert. 📍 | Meanjin, Australia
@taniamccartney.bsky.social
Author, Illustrator, Editor, Designer Founder Kids’ Book Review The Happy Book podcast www.taniamccartney.com
@voicesofwentworth.bsky.social
Non-partisan community group in Eastern Suburbs of #Sydney aiming to improve democracy by listening, informing & advocating for change #Australia #NSW #Gadigal www.voicesofwentworth.org 📺YouTube: @VoicesofWentworth5595 🐘@VoicesofWentworth@toot.community
@rhiannapatrick.bsky.social
Freelance Torres Strait Islander journalist, broadcaster and audio content creator. Loving what I do 💙💚 Based in Brisbane, Australia.
@clairegcoleman.bsky.social
Noongar writer - Novels: Terra Nullius, The Old Lie, Enclave [Hachette Australia]. Non-fiction: Lies, Damned Lies [Ultimo Press]. Writer also of essays, verse, opinion, and criticism.
@dranitaheiss.bsky.social
Wiradyuri Author of over 20 titles, most recent DIRRAYAWADHA (RISE UP) Publisher @ Bundyi, Simon & Schuster AU Prof of Communications @ UQ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranitaheiss?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=e8039df8-76bc-4e43-b07d-c57dc8bfc
@marion-writers.bsky.social
MARION is a not-for-profit, member-driven literary organisation dedicated to championing the rights and interests of writers in the ACT region and beyond. Unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri country. MARION.ink
@keshewrites.bsky.social
She/her. Author of THE GIRL WITH NO REFLECTION (Delacorte/PRH 2024). VPLA unpublished manuscript prize winner 2022. Certified cat lady.
@textpublishing.bsky.social
A publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Three-time ABIAs Small Publisher of the Year; 2018 Leading Edge Books Small Publisher of the Year.
@wheelercentre.bsky.social
Australia's first dedicated centre for Books, Writing and Ideas.
@vanessalen.bsky.social
@aliceboylewrites.bsky.social
Gay writer lady 👭🏳️🌈 | #LoveOzYA | DANCING BAREFOOT out now 🖊️📚
@zoewalton.bsky.social
Book publisher and editor, cat person, design admirer, clueless gardener, newly Canberran
@jackheathwriter.bsky.social
Award-winning author of 40 books in 10 languages. Latest: The Wife Swap jackheathwriter.com
@lizledden.bsky.social
Kids' book author • Latest: Everyone Wants An Octopus Book! (Hardie Grant) • Gadigal/Sydney • www.instagram.com/liz_ledden • www.lizledden.com • https://lemongrassletters.substack.com/
@thebookmuse1.bsky.social
Writer, reviewer, disabled, book lover and cat lover. Picture Book Activist, kid lit advocate. She/her https://ashleighmeikle.com.au https://www.weekendnotes.com/sydney/writer/186/ https://substack.com/@ashleighthebookmuse
@sophiebeerdraws.bsky.social
Kids author and illustrator✨☀✨ Into books and equality. She/her Debut MG 'Thunderhead' out now with A&U
@lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social
Australian author: PRINCE OF FORTUNE out now with S&S. Represented by Jim McCarthy at DGB 🌈 she/her. https://linktr.ee/lisatirrenoauthor
@penguin.com.au
@simonschusteranz.bsky.social
@joyinbooks.bsky.social
Book advocate, reviewer and judge. I blog as ‘Joy in Books’ at PaperbarkWords blog & interview authors and illustrators. https://paperbarkwords.blog/
@deewhiteauthor.bsky.social
Author, animal lover, environmentalist award-winning childrens and YA author of Beyond Belief, Eddy Popcorn Books, Reena's Rainbow she/her Austrian/Australian www.deescribe.com.au
@melcityoflit.bsky.social
The official Blue Sky account for the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature office.
@laurendraperwrites.bsky.social
Australian YA author, mostly. 💌 Return to Sender - 2024 📚 Museum of Broken Things - 2022 If you ask me about my current manuscript I’ll cry
@australianbooks.bsky.social
Celebrating and supporting Australian #writers and #readers. A free platform full of Australian authored books. And a fabulous free podcast hosted by @VeronicaStrachan.bsky.social & @writerLaurieBell.bsky.social #ReadMoreAussieBooks
@nikkimcwatters.bsky.social
A big fan of kindness. Author of 2 memoirs and 3 YA novels. The HEXENHAUS trilogy. Blue Mountains, Australia. https://nikkimcwatters.wordpress.com/
@pennytangey.bsky.social
Writer for young people, sometimes librarian. Mention the climate crisis whenever I possible can.
@skyeohwhy.bsky.social
I write books about magic, friendship and adventure. Latest release: THE DEADLANDS trilogy
@megcaddy.bsky.social
Author of Waer (2016), Devil's Ballast (2019), Slipping the Noose (2022). DnD geek. Solo parent. Ace, nb. She/they.
@alisoncroggon.bsky.social
I write words. Award-winning poet, novelist, critic, theatre writer. Arts editor The Saturday Paper. She/her. Living on unceded Yalukit-Willam Country. http://www.alisoncroggon.com/
@zannilouise.bsky.social
Writing and mentoring from my little sunshine house in Australia. 40+ books for kids PB / JF / MG / YA. www.zannilouise.com Rep’d by LK Literary #kidlitchat
@katemurray.bsky.social
YA author of WE WHO HUNT THE HOLLOW and WE WHO ARE FORGED IN FIRE. Usually caffeinated. Adore all forms of SFF. Kiwi. Own way too many lip balms. Melburnian. She/her. https://linktr.ee/kateswriting
@misterkristoff.bsky.social
#1 International, NYT, USAToday and Sunday Times bestselling liar. EMPIRE OF THE DAWN - November 2025
@jodimca.bsky.social
Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, An Academic Affair, will be out June (Aus/NZ), Sep (UK), Nov (US).
@yassmin.bsky.social
Writer of books, articles, television. Social advocate. Former engineer. Interested in society, politics, culture, technology, how to live meaningful lives and build just societies. Weekly newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
@alisongoodman.bsky.social
Australian author of 9 novels including The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies and its upcoming sequel The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin. I drink too much coffee & cannot click my fingers (frustrating since my fave musical is West Side Story).
@cyaconference.com
Children, Young Adult, and Adult Writers’ and Illustrators’ Conference, is for writers and illustrators of all ages, all genres. CYAConference.com
@scribepub.bsky.social
Seriously good books since 1976. Melbourne | London | Minneapolis scribepublications.com.au scribepublications.co.uk scribepublications.com
@overlandjournal.bsky.social
Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954