Meena's Moving Day

Brenton Cullen is passionate about writing stories from the heart. He is a bookseller, reviewer, beta reader and manuscript assessor, and an enthusiastic advocate for children’s literature. Brenton has written for such publications as Books+Publishing, Magpies, Writing QLD and Good Reading. In 2023, he received the Ian Wilson Memorial Fellowship, and won the 2024 Just Write For Kids Pitch It! Competition (Middle-Grade Category). Brenton’s debut features a novel, The Prime Minister Problem (Riveted Press) in May 2026 and a picture book, Meena’s Moving Day (Wombat Books) in October 2026.

Jennifer Horn is a Brisbane-based illustrator and children’s writer. Her fairytale debut picture book The Precious Plum was shortlisted for the 2022 Little Pink Dog’s Authorstrator Prize. She illustrated the reallife-inspired picture book The Boy From The Sea and an entry in the anthology, Our Australian HeART. With a background in architecture and film, Jen draws on her experiences to create whimsical illustrations. She is a pen-and-paper sketcher, and brings the line drawings into Photoshop to colour and polish. Jen has a black cat too! She tried to coerce him to model for more of the sketches, but he’s too self-conscious.