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About the Festival

Accessibility & Inclusion

Ticket and Event Details

Professional Development Days

Coach Camp publishers

First Pages Writing Competition

Illustrator Exhibition

About the Festival

Accessibility & Inclusion

Folder: 2026 Festival

Ticket and Event Details

Professional Development Days

Coach Camp publishers

First Pages Writing Competition

Illustrator Exhibition

claire saxby

12 Mar

Written By Stef Gemmill

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🩷💙🩷SNEAK PROGRAM PEEK🩷💙🩷
The PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAYS program is coming together

📝We are so excited to bring you the award-winning illustrator, author and artist

✨JESS RACKLYEFT✨

presenting her on-line masterclass on

✍️PICTURE THIS: A

ANOTHER COACH CAMP SOLD OUT!!PLEASE DON’T miss OUT!
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The Coach Camp tix are vanishing faster than missing commas in Stef’s 1st drafts 🥹

🗒️There are LIMITED online tix

⭐️each Coach has been carefully selected for their ability to m

PLEASE DON’t miss out on working with this powerhouse publisher 📚
Our Coach
TASH BESLIEV fromAFFIRM & global publisher SIMON SCHUSTER has ALMOST SOLD OUT 😆
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Festivals are now the only way to submit to this publisher ✨ the 202

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Our talented publisher & Coach
CHREN BYNG is flying down from Sydney to assess, COACH & workshop your manuscripts.
✅HARDIE GRANT are huge supporters of emerging talent ✍️🎨
⭐️Chren Byng is Senior Publisher at HARDIE GRANT CHI

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Our talented publisher & Coach
DANI VEE from much loved publisher ⭐️LARRIKIN HOUSE ⭐️
Coach Camp tix are live and ON SALE 🎟️
IN-PERSON OR ON-LINE
LARRIKIN are huge supporters of emerging talent ✍️🎨
📣We have many publishers alm

ANOTHER COACH CAMP SOLD OUT!!PLEASE DON’T miss OUT!
🎆
The Coach Camp tix are vanishing faster than missing commas in Stef’s 1st drafts 🥹

🗒️There are LIMITED online tix

⭐️each Coach has been carefully selected for their ability to m

🩷💙🩷SNEAK PROGRAM PEEK🩷💙🩷
The PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAYS program is coming together
📝
We are so excited to bring you the award-winning illustrator, publisher and mentor

✨SAMANTHA ELLEN-BOUND✨
presenting her on-line masterclass on

✍️TWICE U

🩷💙🩷SNEAK PROGRAM PEEK🩷💙🩷
The PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAYS program is coming together
📝
We are so excited to bring you the bestselling author and presenter
✨ADAM WALLACE✨
presenting his on-line masterclass on
✍️PERMISSION TO PLAY 🎨
Bestsellin

✨WHO WILL BE THE LUCKY LAST✨
2️⃣SPOTs LEFT IN- PERSON

Our talented publisher & Coach
TASH BESLIEV the EXEC PUBLISHING DIRECTOR from SIMON& SCHUSTER has ALMOST SOLD OUT 😆
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Tash delights in collaborating with authors and illustrat

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