Join us once again for our annual Professional Day Conference - in-person at CDW Studios in the Adelaide CBD.
We are excited to bring you a wonderful line-up of authors and illustrators and can’t wait to connect with everyone and share the highs and lows of the past 12 months.
Ticket Prices:
$55 Members
$85 Non Members
$20 CDW Students
PRESENTERS:
Tony Flowers
https://www.flowersink.com.au/
Tony Flowers loves to draw and is an internationally acclaimed illustrator and artist. His drawings are loved in Japan for their detail and humour and he has won an award in the USA for his street chalk art.
Tony will be joining us over Zoom.
Tania Ingram
https://taniaingram.com/
Tania Ingram is an internationally published author of children’s picture books, novels and poetry. She has a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and prior to becoming an author, worked as a child psychologist. In her spare time, Tania likes to read and craft. She’s learning to play the ukulele and often sings to her chickens who pretend to be underwhelmed by her talent.
Chanelle Gosper
https://www.hachette.com.au/chanelle-gosper/
Chanelle Gosper is a writer based in South Australia, where she lives with her husband, daughters and a whole lot of story ideas. A lifelong love of learning and adventure has seen her live in three different countries, travel the world and enjoy a colourful career that includes primary school teaching, recruitment, healthcare support and marketing. While writing has been a constant companion on all her adventures, Chanelle is only now pursuing her dream of sharing her stories with the world.
Danielle Clode
https://danielleclode.com.au/
Danielle is an award winning author of Australian non-fiction books. Her writing includes natural history, essays, science-writing, historical fiction and best-selling children’s books as well as documentaries. Her books have won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for non-fiction, the Federation of Australian Writers award for excellence in nonfiction, a Whitley Award for popular zoology and been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia and National Biography awards and longlisted for The Nib Literary Award.
Danielle will be joining us over Zoom.
Mandy Foot
https://www.mandyfoot.com/
Mandy is an award winning, best selling author and illustrator of more than 25 picture books, predominantly with an Australian theme. She holds a Bachelor of Design specialising in Illustration from the University of South Australia, is an Ambassador for Raising Literacy Australia, a Role Model for Book in Homes, the Illustrator Coordinator for SCBWI SA branch (Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) and a huge animal lover.
Adam Cece
https://adamcece.com/
Adam Cece is an award-winning author of children’s books, including the hilarious Huggabie Falls series, and an SA Premier’s Reading Challenge Ambassador. His mission, which he has chosen to accept, is to travel the country and inspire children to read and write, by sharing his journey, and his world of books and words, and delving into the process of writing and the structure of stories, and, most importantly, having lots of fun in the process.
Kelly Hibbert
https://kellyhibbert.com/
Kelly Hibbert is the author of Sebastian and the Special Stack of Stories, published by HarperCollins in 2018. Her first picture book, Fancy Pants, was published by the Little Big Book Club in 2016 and distributed to 42000 preschool children across the state and also gained a place on the long-list for the Speech Pathology Book of the Year awards. Kelly divides her time between teaching and writing, sometimes combining the two. In every spare moment, she enjoys exploring the foothills with her family, often speaking in rhyme even if someone asks her to stop.