The Island in Time

Charmaine is connected to the Noongar nations of the southwest of Western Australia. Formerly an Aboriginal Public Arts lecturer with Leederville TAFE, Charmaine continues to create work and is involved in communiy-based art projects and exhibitions in Western Australia. She holds an Associate Degree in Aboriginal Art and a B.A. in Fine Arts (Curtin University) as well as a B.A. in Visual Arts from WA Academy of Performing Arts. She is a self-taught digital artist, and her digital animation portraits of Noongar ancestors provided the Welcome to Country to an audience of 88,000 at the 2017 Kaleidoscope Festival. Charmaine sees herself as a historian researcher on the Whadjuk ancestors where she lives on Noongar Whadjuk boodja Boorloo

With a feature film, 16 half hours of television drama, and fourteen books to his credit, Trevor Todd's work has reached millions of people worldwide. Glad Rags (1995), his 13 part children's television series, was broadcast on the BBC, Nickelodeon UK and on the Nine Network in Australia. In 1994 he won the Australian Writers Guild AWGIE for Best Children's TV Drama with Old Sam, Jasper and Mr Frank. Ingrid Rules the Waves (shortlisted, WAYBRA awards) and Revenge of the Three Blind Mice (shortlisted, YABBA awards) were published by Margaret Hamilton Books. 2001 saw the release of Bone Idol (Pan MacMillan) and two readers for the Thomas Nelson series. Street Sister Madness appeared from Pan MacMillan in 2002. He is a member of the Australian Writers Guild and the Fellowship of Australian Writers. He lives in Western Australia and when not writing he enjoys playing his guitar and singing old Beatles' songs.