Authors
Trudy Adams
TRUDY ADAMS has a degree in English and began working with teenagers while completing a course in youth studies. Trudy is the youngest of six and lives in NSW. Judging Meghan is her second novel and is being launched at the event. Desolate Beauty was shortlisted in the Australian Christian Book of the Year Award.
Stacey grew up in Brisbane, Queensland. Despite no family history of breast cancer she was diagnosed with the disease in 2007 at just 28 years of age.
Stacey is married with two young children who were only 3 yrs and 5 weeks old at the time of her diagnosis.
Throughout her illness Stacey used writing as a release from the raw emotions she faced. She likened this stage of her life to climbing a difficult and challenging mountain and has crafted her thoughts, fears and experiences to create an intimate story about her journey and the faith that carried her through.
Paul Clark is the author of 8 published titles including a collection of Puppet and Drama books and the Car Park Parable series. He is the father of two children and believes in the power of story to engage and transform hearts, especially for the gospel. A writer and performer he has performed to tours of over 7000 children. He is quickly making a name for himself as an innovative writer who is finding new ways to tell the old, old story. In his spare time he pastor's a church in North Qld and is passionate about helping others to find their gifts and grow in them.
Janelle G Dyer lives with her husband Greg, in the regional city of Toowoomba, Australia. She has two adult children, Gregg and Koren.
She has worked as a chaplain in state and private education. She has written many plays and short stories.
Anne Hamilton, a longtime writer and mathematician, has a number of publications to her name. Anne has a trilogy of short books about how maths integrates with God’s great creation called The Singing Silence, The Winging Word and The Listening Land. She has just had published her 27 year project a young adult fantasy, Many-Coloured Realm.
Andrew Lansdown’s poems and stories have been widely published and have won many literary awards. His most recent books are: a collection of poetry, Fontanelle (Five Islands Press); a collection of short stories, The Dispossessed (Interactive Press); three fantasy novels, With My Knife, Dragonfox and The Red Dragon (Omnibus Books/ Scholastic Australia); and two poetry chapbooks, Little Matters: a gathering of 89 haiku & senryu and Consolations: 48 tanka (Picaro Press). His website address is: www.andrewlansdown.com.
Paula Vince lives in Mount Barker, South Australia, with her husband and three children. She enjoys her simple lifestyle of writing and educating her children at home.
Paula values her faith, family and fiction. She believes nothing has more power to delight and inspire people than a good story with lovable characters.
For more of Paula's books check out her website.
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Anthology authors:
authors of Even Before You Were Born: A Christian reflection on pregnancy
authors of Armour Bearer (coming soon)
authors of All Creation Sings, Psalms book Volume 1