Authors and Guests

Paula Bevan

Writer

Paula J Beavan grew up in the Hunter Valley, where her love of reading and a good yarn inspired a desire to write. On discovering a family connection to one of the Hunter Valley first settlers, she turned her hand to historical fiction.

Paula won the Australian Romance Reader's Association 2021 Favourite Debut Romance Author, for her book, Daughter of the Hunter Valley.

Her second novel, Among The Grey Gums, is set to be published in 2024

 

You'll have a chance to chat with Paula in person about her book and her career at the Picnic in the Park as part of the 2023 Scone Festival of Words

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Gail Holmes

Unable to get back to sleep one night, Gail started writing short stories about living in Shanghai. As this writing habit continued to grow, she attended short courses at the City College of Literature in London and then later studied the Melbourne University’s Master of Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing programme

Paula Stevenson

Paula Stevenson will be delivering the Early Readers' Program to young children in the Upper Hunter as part of the Scone Festival of Words 2023

Kell Woods

Kell has studied English literature, creative writing, and history, and writes about made-up (and not so made-up) places, people and things you might remember from the fairy tales you read as a child. Her books, however, are most definitely not for children.

Jonathan Biggins

Jonathan Biggins is an award-winning writer, director and performer, perhaps best known as one of the creators and performers for Sydney Theatre Company’s long-running and much loved annual political satire, The Wharf Revue,

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