WStuart Beattie is an Australian screenwriter and film director. His screenplay for Collateral (2004) earned him nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay and Saturn Award for Best Writing.
WDoris Boake Kerr, a writer who published using the pseudonyms 'Capel Boake' and Stephen Grey,. Her publishing career began with a story appearing in the Australasian in January 1916. Other stories and stories appeared in the Victorian School Paper. She wrote four novels:Painted Clay ; The Romany Mark ; The Dark Thread, and The Twig is Bent, written with the aid of a Commonwealth literary grant but published posthumously.
WRobert Braiden is an Australian film director and writer. Born in Sydney he grew up in Moorebank, Liverpool, New South Wales and now currently lives in Brisbane, Queensland.
WAdam Browne is an Australian speculative fiction writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia. Browne illustrates his own work.
WMarshall Browne was an Australian crime fiction writer.
WJohn Dale is an Australian author of crime fiction and true crime books. He completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Technology, Sydney, in 1999, and subsequently joined the UTS writing Program where he is Professor of Writing and Director of the UTS Centre for New Writing.
WGeorge Frederick Price Darrell (1851–1921) was an Australian playwright best known for The Sunny South (1883).
WLiam Patrick Davison was an Australian novelist and reviewer. He was born in Melbourne, where, until 2007, he taught creative writing at the Chisholm Institute in Frankston.
WFelicity Dowker is a speculative fiction writer from Victoria, Australia. She is predominantly recognised as a writer in the horror genre.
WChris Flynn is an Australian author, editor and critic.
WGreg Flynn is an Australian novelist whose debut book The Berlin Cross received positive reviews nationally when released in December 2005.
WThomas Norman Foster was an Australian Pentecostal minister. He was one of the co-founders of the Christian Revival Crusade, and is also associated with British Israelism. He was invited by the London B.B.C. to do the Radio News Reel Broadcast to Australia of the Coronation procession of Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953. Former Commissioner of the British-Israel-World Federation, Victoria., and Y.M.C.A. Representative, A.I.F., Australia.
WMax Germaine was an Australian fine art dealer and writer about art and artists. A founding director of Sotheby's Australia, he is best known for his 650-page Artists & Galleries of Australia (1984/90) which lists nearly 2000 established artists, and Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia (1991).
WCliff Green OAM is an Australian screen writer, whose best known work is Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).
WAgnes Betty Jeffrey, OAM was an Australian writer who wrote about her Second World War nursing experiences in the book White Coolies.
WKathryn Lomer is an Australian novelist, young adult novelist, short story writer and poet. She has also written for screen, with one short film credit to date.
WMarion Maddox is an Australian author, academic and political commentator. She is a Professor in the department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. Maddox is a regular commentator on issues of religion and politics in the Australian media and is a member of the Uniting Church. She authored the book God Under Howard: The rise of the religious right in Australian politics which compared the Howard Government with the religious right in the United States and criticised the decline of mainstream Christianity in Australia.
WKen Maynard was an Australian cartoonist.
WMaxine McArthur is an Australian writer of science fiction.
WWalter Mikac is an Australian pharmacist who became widely known in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, where his wife Nanette Mikac and daughters, six-year-old Alannah Mikac and three-year-old Madeline Mikac were among 35 people killed by Martin Bryant on 28 April 1996.
WKaren Miller is an Australian writer. She is best known for The Innocent Mage, the first book in her duology Kingmaker, Kingbreaker.
WMichael Mobbs is a Sydney-based author and environmental consultant. He graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Laws in 1975 and then worked as an environmental lawyer for 19 years. Through this work he developed an interest in sustainability. Mobbs served as an Independent Alderman on the City of Sydney Council from 1985–1987. In the 1990s Mobbs converted his Chippendale home into a more sustainable house by modifying the water, energy and waste systems. He regularly opens his house for guided public tours.
WPeter Moore is an Australian travel writer.
WMonsignor Patrick Joseph Hartigan was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet, writing under the name John O'Brien.
WBernard O'Reilly (1903–1975) was an Australian author and bushman of Irish descent. He was born and raised in the Blue Mountains about 50 km (31 mi) north-west of Sydney and later moved to the McPherson Range near Beaudesert in South East Queensland, Australia. He is part of the family that established the O'Reilly's Guesthouse in the Lamington Plateau.
WA. (Alec) S. Patrić is an Australian novelist and short story writer. Patrić was born in Zemun, Serbia and migrated to Australia with his family when he was still a child. He won the 2016 Miles Franklin Award for his debut novel Black Rock White City.
WCraig Pearce is an Australian screenwriter and actor.
WLeigh Redhead, born 18 November 1971, in Adelaide, South Australia is an Australian mystery writer.
WRobert Richardson (1850–1901) was an Australian journalist, poet and writer for children, possibly the first Australian-born children's writer. He was born in New South Wales, eldest son of John Richardson, a New South Wales politician and store-keeper, and Janet, sister of Peter Nicol Russell.
WRonald Roe is an Aboriginal Australian writer of Walman Yawuru descent, a Goolarabooloo elder living in Broome, Western Australia.
WCameron Rogers is an Australian writer of speculative fiction.
WDr. Dorothy Rowe was an Australian psychologist and author, whose area of interest was depression. Born; Newcastle, NSW. Died Sydney, NSW.
WJessica Shirvington, née Pagent, is an Australian author known for a book series called either Embrace, for the first book, or The Violet Eden Chapters for the character.
WRoss Steele AM is an Australian author, academic and Francophile. He has published thirty-seven books in French and English on the subjects including French culture, language and the teaching of French language. He has received a number of awards including Member of the Order of Australia, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and Officier in the Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur in 2008.
WMajor Adrian Consett Stephen MC was an Australian artillery officer and playwright. He was awarded the Military Cross during World War I.
WMargaret Stevenson was an English Australian writers. She was well known as a satirist and columnist in Adelaide where she wrote under the pseudonym "A Colonist" for the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register.
WMelanie Tait is an Australian radio broadcaster, playwright and author. She is from Robertson, New South Wales.
WSteve Toltz is an Australian novelist.
WJames Rosenberg Tucker (1808-1888) was an Australian convict and author from Bristol, England.
WGarnet Walch, was an Australian writer, dramatist, journalist and publisher. From 1872 on, he became very popular as author of numerous pantomimes, burlesques, melodramas, comedies and comediettas.
WFrances Watts is the pen-name of Ali Lavau, a Swiss born Australian author, who moved to Sydney, Australia when she was three years old. She has studied English literature at Macquarie University, going on to teach Australian Literature and children's literature. After graduating with a PhD, she obtained her first job in publishing.
WRuth C. Williams (1897-1982) was an Australian writer for children who was born in London England. In 1950, she received the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers for Verity of Sydney Town.