Dr Helen Edwards Award-winning Australian Author and Writing Mentor

Meet Dr Helen Edwards, Award-winning Australian Author, Speaker & Psychology PhD. Writing & Wellbeing Mentor.

Dr Helen Edwards is an award-winning Australian author and speaker who writes books for kids, teens and adults. Helen has a PhD in Psychology and a long background working in mental health. She writes heartfelt stories of nature, history, mystery and magic. Helen offers writing and wellbeing advice and guidance via her Write Wellbeing services.

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Book Helen for an Author Talk or Workshop!

Helen offers author talks and workshops for kids, teens and adults, across Australia. She has a varied professional background, including founding a charity and running this award-winning organisation for 16 years. She is an advocate for type 1 diabetes, neurodiversity and ensuring all children see themselves in books.

Helen is an experienced speaker and has presented sessions across a range of audiences, topics and age groups. Helen has an ability to engage children and adults alike with warmth, humour and a passion for nature, history, mystery and magic.

If you're looking for a presenter who speaks from the heart, who laughs loud and loves deep, who's passionate about people and planet, and who understands we come in a glorious rainbow of human beings, Helen is your person.

Booking details below.

Dr Helen Edwards Award-winning Australian Author and Writing Mentor

Book a Write Wellbeing Mentoring Session with Helen

Are you looking for support and guidance around a writing project? Want tips on how to get started in traditional publishing? How to prepare for and survive the process of submission? Advice on dealing with blocks and rejection? Want to know how to manage the anxiety about sharing your work, or just need someone to walk beside you as you write?

In her new #WriteWellbeing mentoring sessions, Helen provides one-one mentoring and support services for writers at any stage of their career.

You may choose to focus on your wellbeing as a writer, to focus on your writing projects, or both.

This includes manuscript guidance and assessment, sensitivity reading of your manuscript (where themes are appropriate to Helen's expertise and personal experiences), help in developing a marketing and social media plan, and more.

Wellbeing services may focus on looking at how you are caring for your mental and physical health when writing, on submission, during editing and the days leading up to publication and beyond. Helen will help you to find your own path, stop the comparison game and feel confident enough to opt out of social media and other traps.

You may want to focus on your writing or combine mentoring and feedback about your manuscript, with some support for your wellbeing. You should have at least a writing project idea in mind.

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Awards & Memberships

1st Place Winner
Individual Project Grant 2023
Individual Project Grant 2023
History Trust Grant 2025
History Trust Grant 2025
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Recipient Richard Llewellyn Deaf and Disability Grant 2021
Recipient Richard Llewellyn Deaf and Disability Grant 2021
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