Rose Allan, a New Zealander, lives at Coolum Beach on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. She is a prizewinning author and editor, and a highly skilled and experienced writing tutor.

For the past 10 years she has run a Writers Consultancy, specialising in empowering other writers and helping them to bring their works to fruition. She is passionate about writing that is honest and has the courage to dig deeply.

Her workshops, ‘Writing from the Heart’ and ‘The Art of Story Telling’ are eagerly sought after. A new workshop: ‘Editing is not for Wimps’ is in the pipeline.

Her teaching is informed by the breadth of her experience in both writing and publishing: as editor for medical and engineering journals; for Scholastic Publications in London and for Off Campus Studies at Deakin University; as a newspaper feature writer for the New Zealand Herald and as literary editor for Boardwalk  Magazine.

She has taught English in secondary schools, Literacy at a Technical Institute and Creative Writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

Her two published books, ‘Out of this Whirlwind’ (Heinemann) and ‘Spirit of Noosa, Noosa National Park’  (Spectrum Publications) combine word and photographic image and are decribed as  imaginative non-fiction.

Her short stories and poetry are published nationally and internationally in literary journals and have won a number of awards.

In  2004 she received the Booranga Writers Fellowship to work on her first novel ‘Darkroom’ about a photographer with a disturbing past..  (Publication now pending as ‘Uncut’)


She is currently writing a verse novel and collating her short stories for publication.

Rose acts as a judge of literary competitions, and is a frequent speaker at Literary and International Women’s Day events. She is a long term member of the Queensland Writers Centre and the Australian Society of Authors.