Lisa Nicol is an internationally published, award-winning writer and documentary-maker. Her feature Wide Open Sky about a children's choir won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2015 Sydney Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix. Her charming and funny novel Dr Boogaloo and The Girl Who Lost Her Laughter was a 2018 CBCA Notable, Shenzhen Reading Month, Top Ten Children's Books of the Year 2021 and is currently being adapted for the screen as a musical. Her 2019 middle grade novel Vincent and The Grandest Hotel on Earth has drawn comparisons to Roald Dahl and Kate DiCamillo and been described as a modern classic. Her third novel, The What on Earth Institute of Wonder was shortlisted for Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2022. Lisa lives in Sydney with two out of her three children and a dusty old dog who smells worse than an elephant fart.

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John Larkin is a multi-award winning author. His 2012 novel The Shadow Girl won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award while The Pause won the 2015 Queensland Literary Award and was short-listed for the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Older Readers. He is the writer-in-residence at Knox Grammar School, University of Technology Sydney, and All Saints Grammar School (Gold Coast). 

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