The latest from Ford Street Publishing
Mark Carthew
Mark is an award-winning children’s author, musician, educator and editor. He is well known for his books and series exploring word play. His books have involved collaboration with some of the world’s leading authors and..
Tull Suwannakit
Tull Suwannakit is a children’s book author and illustrator with a background in animation and fine art. He began his artistic career as a set designer and sculptor for an independent animation studio in New..
Liz Ledden
Liz Ledden is a Sydney-based children’s author and co-host of kids’ book podcast One More Page. Liz has an MA in Writing and Literature, and a background in writing for digital and print publications and..
Chris McKimmie
Chris McKimmie is a writer, artist, designer, musician, lecturer, grandad to seven grandkids and one dog, Teddy, a black Labrador who shares his morning tea biscuits. Chris has had many solo and group exhibitions of..
Dimity Powell
Award-winning children’s author, Dimity Powell, loves to fill every spare moment with words. She writes and reviews exclusively for children and is the Managing Editor for Kids’ Book Review, one of the world’s leading review..
Rebecca Timmis
Rebecca Timmis is an emerging illustrator based in sunny Queensland. She studied animation at the Queensland College of Art before embarking on a career that has spanned web development, graphic design, writing and illustration. She..
Krys Saclier
Krys Saclier has written for television, radio and press and also worked as a teacher and educator. She is the creator of the Kids Only podcast and a founding member of the Canberra Children’s Writers’..
Harry Laing
Harry Laing is a poet, comic performer and creative writing teacher with over 20 years’ experience in schools. His book of poems for 6-12-year-olds, Shoctopus, came out in 2015 and is proving a hit with..
K H Canobi
K H Canobi writes fiction for young adults and children. Her YA futuristic thriller, Mindcull, was published by Ford Street Publishing in 2019. She is a skilled and enthusiastic public speaker, having worked as a..
Peter Viska
Peter Viska’s cartoons have appeared in newspapers around Australia. He has since illustrated the Far Out, Brussel Sprout! series and Aussie Bite books: The Lenski Kids and Dracula, Hello World It’s Me and No Place..
David Rish
Tasmanian David Rish lives in an okay house, next to an oak tree and he writes occasionally. He has never owned a leather jacket. If you can be bothered you can check out his life..
Danny Willis
Danny Willis is a Bendigo-based artist and writer who began his career in the 1980s, creating fantasy art for the then burgeoning and various Play by Mail computer games systems. In 2006 Goblins: The Outer..
Lucy Sussex
Lucy Sussex was born in New Zealand in 1957. She has degrees in English and Librarianship from Monash University, and is a freelance researcher, editor and writer. She has published widely, writing anything from literary..
Paul O’Sullivan
Paul O’Sullivan is a voracious artist, philosopher and collector of ideas. He is the illustrator for Gary Crew’s latest picture book, The Visions of Ichabod X, published by Harbour Publishing. The detailed illustrations contain Steampunk-style elements..