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2026 Festival Writers

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Dan Bourchier presenting with a microphone in hand.

Dan Bourchier

Dan Bourchier is a storyteller, author, multi-award-winning journalist and broadcaster. Dan’s book, The Elders, is a powerful and evocative journey through the heart of First Nations Australia. Within these pages you’re invited to sit down, listen and learn from the keepers of the world’s oldest living culture. He is married to meteorologist and broadcaster Karl Lijnders, and they live on Darug and Gundungurra Country in the Blue Mountains.
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Headshot of Dana Morse in a black suit with a misty cityscape in the background.

Dana Morse

Dana Morse is a Plangermaireener and Trawoolway woman from Tasmania. She is an Indigenous Affairs reporter based at Parliament House in Canberra. Previously, she was a senior political producer at 7.30, and a federal political reporter. She was also a reporter in the Adelaide and Melbourne newsrooms.
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Danielle Binks

Danielle Binks is a Melbourne-based writer and literary agent with Jacinta di Mase Management. She is the author of bestselling middle-grade book The Year the Maps Changed, and the award-winning young adult short story collection; Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology. Her latest novel for 10–13-year-olds is WWI historical, Shakespeare in the Orchard, inspired by real events. Danielle also teaches Fiction & Young Adult Writing in the Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing at her alum, RMIT University.
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David Conley

David Conley is a passionate primary school teacher and an award-winning writer and illustrator of chapter books for kids about mythology, science and the stuff in between. David’s books are filled with illustrations designed to scaffold a beginning reader and engage a more experienced reader. David began telling and sketching stories on whiteboards to entertain his students during school breaks, and he still works directly with his students as real-time critics to refine his concepts. His latest work with Jol Temple is Ludicrous Legends: Myths with a twist.
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David Munns

David Munns is a Professor of the History of Science and Technology at John Jay College, City University of New York. He earned his M.Phil from the University of Sydney, and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. His published work encompasses the history of modern life and physical sciences and technology, environmental history, Anthropocene studies, and waste studies. He is the author of three books, mostly recently Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age, co-authored with Kärin Nickelsen.

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David Speers

David Speers is the ABC’s National Political Lead and host of Insiders on Sunday mornings. For more than two decades he has covered federal politics at the highest level, regularly interviewing the nation’s political leaders, decision makers and leading analysts. David has hosted multiple Leaders’ Debates and election night broadcasts, earning a reputation for incisive questioning and rigorous analysis. His work has been recognised with Walkley Awards and a Logie.
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Deborah Hart

Dr Deborah Hart is the Henry Dalrymple Head Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia. With more than 30 years of curatorial experience, she is a leading authority on Australian art and has led major exhibitions, publications, and institutional shifts at the gallery. She has recently worked to bring the landmark Know My Name project to the Gallery. This aims to celebrate, elevate, and increase the representation of Australian women artists across programs and collections.
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Debra Adelaide

Dr Debra Adelaide is author/editor of 19 books, including five novels and two collections of short fiction. Her latest book is When I Am Sixty-Four. Debra Adelaide taught creative writing for 20 years and is now an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. She lives and writes on Bidjigal country in Sydney’s inner west.
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Dennis Shanahan

Dennis Shanahan began reporting from the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1979 in the Old Parliament House for The Sydney Morning Herald. After returning to Sydney to report on State Parliament for the Herald he was hired by The Australian in late 1988 and has worked continuously for The Australian in the Gallery since then. He has covered every prime minister since Malcolm Fraser through to Anthony Albanese.
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Portrait of Durkhanai Ayubi seated, barefoot, on a curved sofa in a light-filled modern home.

Durkhanai Ayubi

Durkhanai Ayubi is an Afghan-born writer. Her work is committed to making conscious the historically generated asymmetries that distort our shared realities by drawing on her lived experience as a refugee to Australia and through reclamation of her own ancestral voice. Her first book, Parwana: Recipes and stories from an Afghan kitchen, received global acclaim. Her new book, She Who Tastes, Knows, offers a resurfaced language of collective possibility through following the nature of food.
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