Scriptwriters & Screenwriters

Children's Author

Maura is an award-winning Canberra-based author, playwright and filmmaker who creates across art forms for children and adults. A new picture storybook, Our Family Zoo, published by Scholastic on 1 June 2026 is a wonderful story of family life shared with a house full of animals.  Alphabetter,  published in 2024 by Affirm Press, is an A to Z of Building Character. It showcases character traits in a positive sense as ways to be, gently supporting the element of agency and choice and active learning. By using real life examples the book presents easy to understand concepts in a holistic manner that helps children explore who they are, and who they would like to be, in a safe and supportive manner. This book is a unique and timely resource that makes character-building a fun, accessible and rewarding exercise at home, in the classroom and in life. It's a great stepping stone to ethical understanding and deliberation.

Scriptwriter and Non Fiction Writer

Heather wrote Grasping at Shadows: Balfour the mining town in the Tarkine for the Circular Head Historical Society.

Heather Nimmo’s engaging book is a chain of reminiscences as well as the story of the swift rise and fall of the gallant mining field called Balfour. Of the hundreds of books on the history of our mining fields, this is the only one I know which so neatly combines these two ingredients of history and memoir.
~ Professor Geoffrey Blainey

Heather was born in the UK and immigrated to Australia with her family as a child. She grew up and attended school and university in Adelaide and before settling in Perth, lived in several isolated places around Australia through her involvement in the mining industry. She is at present living with her husband in Adelaide.

Scriptwriter and Children's Author

Kevin Nemeth is a popular and award winning scriptwriter with over 25 year experience in the industry. He has been awarded five Australian Writers' Guild Awards and has received another nine nominations. He graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Diploma in Dramatic Arts and has received an Australia Council Literature Board Fellowship.

His latest children's picture storybook, Back in My Day, was published in July 2026 by Affirm Press.

This is a charming story replete with entertaining, extremely far fetched, tall tales and the love between a grandfather and his grandson.