Timberdark

Darren Charlton lives in Hastings and has worked in social care for the last 15 years, most recently for the homeless team at Guy's and St Thomas' hospital in London. His lifetime obsessions with the National Parks of America, genre, film music and 80s kids movies have all worked their way into his writing. Darren's first book, Wranglestone, has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the YA Book Prize, and longlisted for the Branford Boase Award.

Hunter Stanford is a Naarm/Melbourne-based actor, hailing from a family of performers. Most notably, he appeared in the lead role of Jeremy Glass in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Poor Boy oppositeGuy Pearce. Hunter has accumulated many television credits to date, including lead role Lucas in the Network 10 children’s series For Real. Other television credits include Hamish and Andy’s TrueStory Season 2, Utopia Season 3, The Secret River, The Doctor Blake Mysteries and Underbelly:Squizzy.