Chris Allen is available to attend your upcoming symposium, library talk, bookstore signing, writers festival, writing group, book club, or school event.

Chris talks on everything from Paratrooping to publishing, penning escapist action thrillers, and all that lies between. Chris is a popular choice for an entertaining, engaging speaker whose presents at events such as: 

• The Future of Writing Symposium
• Sydney Writers' Festival
• Perth Writers Festival
• NSW Writers' Centre
• Lake Macquarie Fellowship of Australian Writers
• Willoughby Hotel Meet the Author
• Wangi Wangi & Morrisset Library
• Hornsby Library
• Abbotsleigh Adult Discussion Group
• ASIAL National Conference

Chris is a founding member of the Action & Thriller Writers Association in Australia alongside other well-known storytellers Tony Park, Greg Barron and Luke Preston - a group that aims to increase literacy among teenage boys.

For more information on Chris Allen, see About the Author, or to ask about having a bestselling Australian author at your next event click here. 

Event Photo Gallery

Willoughby Hotel Authors Club

After the Author Chat at the Willoughby Hotel Authors Club. 

Willoughby Hotel Authors Club

Chris Allen ponders writing and publishing in 2013 at the Willoughby Hotel Authors Club. 

Willoughby Hotel Authors Club

Promotional flyer for Chris Allen at the Authors Club, Willoughby Hotel.

Willoughby Hotel Authors Club

The venue for the Authors Club at the old Willoughby Hotel in North Willoughby. 

Willoughby Hotel Authors Club

Jane and Greg Scarlett with Mal Grigg at the Willoughby Hotel Authors Club. 

Sydney Writers' Festival 2013

Chris Allen with Elizabeth Storrs, Dionne Lister and Anna Maguire at the NSW Writers' Centre-curated workshop at Sydney Writers' Festival 2013 called Forest for the Trees. Chris and his fellow authors discussed writing and publishing in 2013 in a panel session called 'The Author as Everything.' 

Carol and Sarah

At the Hornsby Library Author Chat, Carol and Sarah peruse Chris Allen's thriller. 

Signing at Hornsby Library

Chris Allen thriller writer signs copies of Defender and Hunter at the Hornsby Library Meet The Author talk on Paratrooping to Straddling the Traditional Publishing Divide on 11 April 2013.​

Meet the Author @ Hornsby Library

Chris Allen thriller writer with readers at the Hornsby Library Meet The Author talk on Paratrooping to Straddling the Traditional Publishing Divide on 11 April 2013.​

Meet the Author @ Hornsby Library

Chris Allen thriller writer with Dierk and Carol at the Hornsby Library Meet The Author talk on Paratrooping to Straddling the Traditional Publishing Divide on 11 April 2013.​

Meet the Author @ Hornsby Library

Attendees at the Hornsby Library meet thriller writer Chris Allen's talk on Paratrooping to Straddling the Traditional Publishing Divide on 11 April 2013.​

On The Writing Process

Chris Allen leads a session on The Writing Process, Lake Macquarie Fellowship of Australian Writers at Toronto Multi-Purpose Centre on 23 February 2013.

Hunter Book Launch @ Commodore Hotel

Signing books at the Hunter: Intrepid 2 Book launch at the Commodore Hotel, December 2012.​

Hunter Book Launch @ Commodore Hotel

Anne Treasure and Joel Naoum from Momentum Books with Andy and Bianca Vintner at the Hunter: Intrepid 2 book launch at the Commodore Hotel in North Sydney.​

At Defender launch party and signing

Chris Allen launches Defender in style on top of the Bendigo Bank building on Pitt St, Sydney in August 2011, just five months before Momentum Books sign him for a two book deal.​

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