Non-Fiction Writers

Vicki Bennett is a public speaker, training consultant to business, salesperson and author. Her Brisbane based consultancy, Vicki Bennett Training, has an impressive clientele which includes Government authorities and top corporations. She believes that success on a business level must first begin with success on a personal level. She is a writer of non fiction and fiction for adults and children. In this article, her non-fiction work is highlighted.

Poet and Author

Adamson’s beautifully written autobiography, Inside Out, first published in hardback in March 2004 by Text Publishing was released in soft cover in July 2006. In this wonderful book, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes funny, Robert tells the story of his childhood and early adulthood in fifties and sixties Australia. Having spent much of his adolescence in boys’ homes and prisons he is introduced to books and dreams of becoming a writer.

Fiction and Non-Fiction Author

Terri Janke is an Indigenous Australian. She is a lawyer and has her own law firm that represents Indigenous artists and creators. She is the author of Our Culture: Our Future: A report on Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights. She writes and speaks internationally. Her short stories have been published in Southerly and Island. She and her daughter co-authored a Picture Storybook for children which was published by Magabala Books in 2004.

Author and Poet

Doris Brett, born in 1950, is a Clinical Psychologist and writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. She has published eight books ranging from poetry to novels to therapeutic storytelling for children. Doris has a new middle-grade work of fiction, The Medusa Problem, to be published by Eagle Books, an Imprint of Christmas Press, in 2027. Philomella and the Impossible Forest, was her debut middle-grade story(2023).