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2026 Festival Writers

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Lauren Novak

Lauren Novak is an award-winning news and features journalist of more than two decades who specialises in coverage of child safety, family violence, parenting and maternal health. Lauren lives on Kaurna land, in Adelaide, with her patient partner and their two lively kids, born less than two years apart during a global pandemic. Meltdown: Why motherhood makes us angry and what to do about it is her first book.
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Lauren Smith

Lauren Smith is the publisher at the National Library of Australia. In her experience at NLA Publishing and previously Australian Geographic, she has made over 100 books focusing mostly on non-fiction titles that open up Australian history and culture, including Postscript: Life, Love and Loss in Australian Letters. The first letter she ever sent was a note slid under her parents’ bedroom door and the last letter she sent was to her goddaughter, which contained a uniquely terrible illustration of a unicorn.
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Linda Wells

Linda Wells is a teacher and writer of white settler descent. Linda has lived in Central Australia for many years and worked as a teacher on desert communities as well as in Alice Springs. For over ten years Linda also ran a small business, conducting guided walking tours of Alice Springs. She has a PhD in creative, post-colonial possibilities for writing Australian history and loves writing books. She is passionate about the power of storytelling. Linda is proud to be Marly’s mother, and she is also proud to be a First Nations ally. Her recent book is Desert Tracks.
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Lisa Fuller

Lisa Fuller is a Wuilli Wuilli woman, also descended from Wakka Wakka, and Gooreng Gooreng peoples, living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands. An award-winning author, editor and lecturer at the University of Canberra, she is passionate about Own Voices, culturally safe publishing, children’s literature, and speculative fiction. Her works include YA thriller Ghost Bird, picture book Big Big Love and middle grade fantasy, Washpool. She has written across ages and genres in short stories, memoir and poetry. Lisa is also a literary agent with Alex Adsett Literary, dedicated to championing stories she loves. 
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Lizz Murphy

Lizz Murphy has published fifteen books. Her tenth poetry title Bitumen Psalms (Flying Islands Pocket Poets) celebrates place and other things. The Wear of my Face won the ACT Notable Award for Poetry 2021. Lizz writes in a variety of styles from prose poetry to micro poetry, often incorporating found text. She is also a visual artist working in art & text and is a member of the collective Postcards from the Sky.
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Lucinda Holdforth

Lucinda Holdforth is the author of four books examining what makes good societies flourish. While working as a speech writer and adviser to senior leaders across government and business, she has written with wit and insight about the women who shaped the culture of Paris, the enduring value of manners, the language of democratic leadership and, most recently, the downside of modern virtues in 21st-Century Virtues: How they are failing our democracy (2023). Her books are lively provocations to think more clearly about the forces and conditions that make for a civilized world. Her latest work is Going On and On: Why our longevity threatens our future.
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Lucy Ridge

Lucy Ridge is a Canberra-based food writer and food systems advocate. She previously worked as a chef for over a decade, promoting local, seasonal cooking. She is the author of Fed Up – a chef’s adventures in food, farming & feminism. Her work has been published in The Guardian and Region Media, amongst others.
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Lulu Houdini

Lulu Houdini is a Gamilaroi poet and midwife whose work explores invisibility, memory, resistance, and the thresholds between worlds. Her poetry has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Red Room Poetry, and Cordite. Her debut collection, ma-li won the 2024 black&write! Fellowship and was shortlisted for the 2023 David Unaipon Award. Her second manuscript, River Page, was also shortlisted for the David Unaipon Award the following year. She lives and creates on/with Jerrinja and Wandi Wandandian Country.
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Lynette Russell

Lynette Russell AM is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre. One of Australia’s foremost anthropological historians, she specialises in Aboriginal history, early cross-cultural encounters, and Indigenous knowledge systems. Her Aboriginal ancestors were born on the lands of the Wotjobaluk people. She has held fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge and is an elected fellow of Australian and international academies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019.
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