As author/editor of ten books, Ruth Bonetti has been published by a large publishing house (Oxford University Press; Enjoy Playing the Clarinet with its accompanying piano book) and a smaller niche publisher (Albatross Books published Taking Centre-Stage - How to survive and enjoy performing in public which is now republished as Confident Music Performance)

She was Editorial Consultant for the Australian Music Examinations Board Clarinet Syllabus books, grades 1-4, published by Allans Publishing.

She has published four books through her own imprint, Words and Music:

Rosie lives with her husband, Chris, and their six children, Josiah, Kate, Eliza, Emily, Samuel and Jacob in a barn in Whangarei , New Zealand (while they built a new family home). Rosie spent three years as a young child in Papua New Guinea, where her parents were missionaries. After graduating from her nursing training, she spent a year in Borneo as a missionary. It was here that Chris came to visit her and declare his love - the rest is history!

Rosie and Chris are singer/songwriters, and have had the joy of encouraging and challenging Christians in many different countries. They have released a number of CD’s which are available on their web site. Rosie has also published a children’s book, The Happy Prince. Rosie is a sought after speaker at women’s conferences, missions and home-schooling conventions, and churches, where she loves to speak about her passions - missions, family, and Jesus.

Tom spent early years, just after WW II, on a small family poultry farm on the outskirts of Melbourne. All of that area has long since been swallowed up by suburbia, however those early days provided many experiences and situations which Tom draws on for inspiration of much of his writing. He has worked in electronic engineering, acoustics, photography and music performance and teaching. His Christian life has involved him in music and preaching over many years.

In his retirement years Tom has had the time to express himself in poetry of various forms, but he feels most at home with a classical style of regular rhyme and rhythm. The subject matter of his writing embraces stories from his childhood past, through his working life, comments on current affairs, and also includes a fair bit of humorous nonsense. But where it matters Tom's Christian viewpoint comes out quite clearly, and some of his pieces are directly intended to present a Christian challenge. He feels that there is too much of society's philosophy today which is widely accepted, almost without question, and is leaving people feeling comfortable as they ignorantly head towards hell. Tom says, "If even one person reads what I write and is challenged to look at Jesus, and that to his own eternal good, it will have been worthwhile."

Sandra Cherry is a Melbourne trainer with interests in personal and professional development. She grew up in Tasmania and has been living in Melbourne for the past 15 years.

Sandra has studied behavioural sciences at Monash University and fine arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Jodi remembers loving stories from an early age.  At ten she made a discovery that would change the course of her life – she could write stories as well. And she has never stopped!

Her dream was always to be a writer but it was a long time coming! The catalyst came with the birth of her son in 2004 (giving her the time and freedom from earning a living) and the completion of The Artist’s Way in 2007 (that made her realise she would only ever be truly happy if she was writing).

Jodi is the past editor of Down to Birth magazine, a veteran of the 2007 and 2008 National Novel Writing competitions, the current breastfeeding editor for Type A Mom and a columnist for Write Anything.

Among her writing credits are the 2008 eBook Reclaiming Sex After Birth: a survivors guide (co-written with Annie Evett), the short story Demon Lover, the online collaborative adventure series The Astonishing Adventures of Captain Juan, educational resources on homebirth for the Home Midwifery Association and a string of non fiction articles in print and online publications.

She is currently working on an anthology of her short stories and in the beginning stages of creating a quarterly anthology of interconnected short fiction named Chinese Whisperings, with fellow writer Paul Anderson.

Jodi’s eclectic writing style covers the genres of main stream and speculative fictions, adventure and the odd bit of romance.  She lives in Brisbane, Australia with her partner Dave, her son Dylan, Keats the Cat and the Fish of Bo.

Kathryn is a writer and publisher based in Melbourne. She founded Celapene Press in 2004 to provide publishing opportunties for new and emerging Australian writers and co-founded Page Seventeen, before starting Short and Twisted in 2008.

Kathryn enjoys writing for children and her children provide the inspiration for her stories.

Janelle G Dyer lives with her husband Greg, in the regional city of Toowoomba, Australia. She has two adult children, Gregg and Koren.

She has worked as a chaplain in state and private education. She has written many plays and short stories.

Annie draws on her years as a teacher and time in the corporate field to bring life experience to her  eclectic style of writing. She has written speculative science fiction, feminist literature, romance, adventure and magazine articles exploring themes in mothering, feminism, spirituality and sharing her journey as a woman and mother. Annie is currently involved with a number of collaborative writing projects in both fiction and non fiction as well as conducting workshops with community  and speaking at key events.

Janette Fernando was born in Melbourne in 1955 to a Dutch migrant family. She has always loved playing with words, but has only been writing poetry for the last 20 years. She began seriously writing on her first visit to the Centre of Australia. Since then she has joined a Christian poetry group “The Wordsmiths of Melbourne” and, together with Jean Sietzema-Dickson, has started “Poetica Christi Press” - a small christian publishing house for poetry.  Some of her poems have been published in anthologies and journals and her first book of poems “Two Edged” was published in 2005 (it was short-listed for the Australian Christian Book of the Year Awards that same year.)

Since 2007 she has been Managing Editor of Poetica Christi Press. She also enjoys working as a relief teacher for both primary and secondary students at Mt Evelyn Christian School, appreciating the variety in her life.

Married to Roger and mother of four adult children, she leads a busy life, but takes time out occasionally to read and write poetry.