Love YA: Crossing Worlds

Dr Jared Thomas is a Nukunu person of the Southern Flinders Ranges, Research Fellow, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Material Culture at the South Australian Museum and University of South Australia, and an Indigenous Literacy Foundation ambassador. He is the highly regarded author of critically acclaimed books for young adults including My Spare Heart (Allen & Unwin 2021), Songs that Sound Like Blood, and Calypso Summer, for which Jared was awarded the Kuril Dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowship, and which was selected by the International Youth Library as a White Raven Book and short-listed for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. Jared is also the co-author of the Patty Mills series Game Day. 

Clare Atkins is the author of Between Us and Nona & Me. Nona & Me won the 2016 Book of the Year in the NT Literary Awards, was longlisted for the 2015 Inky Awards and Highly Commended in the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.

She has worked as a scriptwriter on many TV series including All Saints, Home and Away and Winners & Losers.

Brendan Lawley is a writer who lives in Melbourne. He grew up in north-eastern Victorian and Footscray.

Bonesland is his first novel.