Spotlight on Australian Writers

Welcome to the world of wonderful Australian writers! Each week a contemporary Aussie writer will be profiled on this page. While some will be well known and honoured, others may be hidden gems. If you are, or know of, an aspiring Aussie writer, please contact me.

Donna Abela	Robert Adamson	Jordie Albiston	Kathryn Apel	Timoshenko Aslanides
Murray Bail	Faith Baisden	Peter Bakowski	Janis Balodis	Connie Barber
Ross Barrett	Max Barry	Anne Bartlett	Di Bates	Vanessa Bates
Catherine Bateson	Richard Beasley	Wendy Beckett	Noel Beddoe	Kenneth Adrian (K A) Bedford
Larissa Behrendt	Diane Bell	Hilary Bell	Kamarra Bell-Wykes	Michael Beresford
Angela Betzien	Tony Birch	Aaron Blabey	Barbara Blackman	David Blackman
Ernie Blackmore	Nick Bland	Lorna Bol	Royce Bond	Andrew Bovell
Peter Boyle	James Bradley	Erroll Bray	Janeen Brian	Anne Brooksbank
Honey Brown	Mary Rachel Brown	Margi Brown Ash	Christopher Bryant	Colleen Z Burke
John Muk Muk Burke	Sue Bursztynski	Bridgette Burton	David Burton	Michael Byrne
Ken Canning	Stephen Carleton	Mark Carthew	Coralie Cassady	Bonny Cassidy
Angus Cerini	Jeremy Chambers	Christopher Cheng	Nandi Chinna	Beatrix Christian
Vivienne Cleven	Ali Cobby Eckermann	Robbie Coburn	Catherine Cole	Aidan Coleman
Claire G Coleman	Bill Condon	Craig Cormick	Patricia Cornelius	Caroline de Costa
Angela Costi	Penelope (P S) Cottier	Reg Cribb	Andrew Croome	Christine Croydon
Sophie Cunningham	Amanda Curtin	Stephen Dando-Collins	Jessica Davidson	Gregory Day
Mark Deans	Campion Decent	Sonja Dechian	Barry Dickins	Chris Dickins
Brett (B R) Dionysius	Graeme Dixon	Fran Dobbie	John Donnelly	Gregg Dreise
Robert Drewe	Jo Dutton	Rebecca Edwards	Will Elliott	Wesley Enoch
Daniel Evans	Jim Everett	Diane Fahey	Kathleen Mary Fallon	Michael Farrell
Aidan Fennessy	Tim Ferguson	Ann-Marie Finn	Justin Fleming	Dirk Flinthart
Lionel Fogarty	Kate Forsyth	Trevor Fourmile	Mem Fox	Richard Frankland
Jackie French	Declan Furber Gillick	Helen Garner	Frank Gauntlett	Susanne Gervay
Vivienne Glance	Sofya Gollan	Geoff Goodfellow	Kate Grenville	Adam Grossetti
Darren Groth	Barbara Gurney	Anna Haebich	Phillip Hall	Liz Hall-Downs
Kathryn Hamann	John Harding	Jane Harrison	Kylie Harrison	Jennifer Harrison
Sonya Hartnett	Dennis Haskell	Frank Hatherley	Libby Hathorn	Kate Howarth
Steve Hawke	Susan Hawthorne	Elise Hearst	Ruth Hegarty	Anita Heiss
Mark Henshaw	Kate Herbert	Steven Herrick	Anthony Hill	Tom Holloway
Elizabeth Honey	Robert Hood	Kathy Hoopmann	Alan Hopgood	Coral Hull
Michael Hyde	Adrian Hyland	David Ireland	Ivy Ireland	George Ivanoff
Antoni Jach	Andy Jackson	Andrea James	Julie Janson	Sandy Jeffs
Graham Jenkin	Amanda (A) Frances Johnson	Eva Johnson	Rita Kalnejais	Kooshyar Karimi
Doris Kartinyeri	Daniel Keene	Kim Kelly	Jenny Kemp	Thomas Keneally
Gayle Kennedy	Stephen Kinnane	Andy Kissane	Karen Knight	Peter Kocan
Ambelin Kwaymullina	Ezekiel Kwaymullina	Andrew Lansdown	Verity Laughton	Ray Lawler
Anthony Lawrence	Kit Lazaroo	Jeanine Leane	Julian Leatherdale	Geoffrey Lehmann
Julia Leigh	Alison Lester	Ash Lieb	Caleb Lewis	Kate Llewellyn
Kathryn Lomer	Barry Lowe	Diane Lucas	Nakkiah Lui	Scott McAteer
Donna McDonald	Lorraine McGuigan	Brenton E McKenna	Sharon McGuinness	Mal McKimmie
Philip McLaren	Rhyll McMaster	Neridah McMullen	Jennifer Maiden	Karin Mainwaring
David Malouf	Alison Mann	John Marsden	Lorraine Marwood	John Maynard
Nathan Maynard	Stephen Measday	David Milroy	Gladys Milroy	Peter Minter
Adrian Mitchell	Robert Moore	Romaine Moreton	Palo Morgan	Liane Moriarty
Ross Mueller	Kate Mulvany	Marie Munkara	Richard Murphet	Les Murray
Peta Murray	Omar Musa	Ellen van Neerven	Norm Newlin	John Newton
Barbara Nicholson	Alex Nicol	Louis Nowra	Judy Nunn	May O’Brien
Steven Oliver	Stephen Orr	Debra Oswald	Geoff Page	Charmaine Papertalk-Green
Louise Park	Bruce Pascoe	William John (W J) Peasley	Tim Pegler	Sonya Pemberton
Beryl Philp Carmichael	Lachlan Philpott	Boori Monty Pryor	Thérèse Radic	Scott Rankin
Hannie Rayson	Melissa Reeves	Robert Reid	Kate Richards	Wendy Richardson
Sally Richardson	Sue Rider	Tracey Rigney	Michael Robotham	Judith Rodriguez
Helen Ross	Robyn Rowland	Matthew Ryan	Michèle Saint-Yves	Philip Salom
Shirley van Sanden	Brenda Saunders	Irini Savvides	Kim Scott	Ivan Sen
Thomas Shapcott	Bruce Shearer	Glenn Shea	Craig Sherborne	Sandra Shotlander
Craig Silvey	Inga Simpson	Tim Sinclair	Melinda J Smith	Melinda L Smith
Sue Smith	Vivian Smith	Gaele Sobott	Pete Spence	Bruno Starrs
Mark Swivel	Peta Tait	Alf Taylor	Michelle A Taylor	Jared Thomas
Katherine Thomson	Tim Thorne	Steve Toltz	Pat (Mamanyjun) Torres	Caroline Tuohey
Karen Tyrrell	Michael Uniacke	Alana Valentine	Rick Viede	Ken Vincent
Emma Viskic	Valerie Volk	Samuel Wagan Watson	Christopher Wallace-Crabbe	Richard and Alton Walley
John Watson	John Wenitong	Herb Wharton	Jessica White	Alison Whittaker
Edel Wignell	Marita Wilcox	Linden Wilkinson	Donna Williams	David Williamson
Dallas Winmar	Dianne Wolfer	Danielle Wood	Sue Woolfe	Michelle Worthington
Alexis Wright	Fiona Wright	Tom Wright	Richard Yaxley	Catherine Zimdahl
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