Bidhi Galing

Dr Anita Heiss

Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of over 20 books, encompassing non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction, and children’s novels. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central New South Wales.

Dr Heiss is an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation, and serves as Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland. She is also the Publisher at Large of Bundyi, an imprint of Simon & Schuster dedicated to cultivating First Nations talent.

As an artist in residence at La Boite Theatre, she adapted her novel Tiddas for the stage. This adaptation premiered at the 2022 Brisbane Festival and was produced by Belvoir St for the Sydney Festival in 2024.

Her novel, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, which chronicles the Great Flood of Gundagai, won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Indigenous Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize and the 2022 ABIA Awards. Dr Heiss’s first children’s picture book, Bidhi Galing (Big Rain), also focuses on the Great Flood of Gundagai.

In 2024, she released Dirrayawadha (Rise Up), a book about the frontier war in Bathurst. Her most recent novel is The Paradise Pact.

Samantha Campbell

Samantha Campbell grew up in the Northern Territory and currently resides in Alice Springs. She is descended from the Dagoman people from Katherine and spent her childhood living in remote communities across the Top End.

Her first book, Alfred’s War, written by Rachel Bin Salleh, was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and the Speech Pathology Australia’s Book of the Year Awards.

Her other published works include Aunty’s Wedding by Miranda Tapsall and Joshua Tyler, Brother Moon by Maree McCarthy Yoelu, and Freedom Day by Rosie Smiler and Thomas Mayor.

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