Anna Dollard
Creative Director
Anna Dollard has worked in publishing and the Arts for over 30 years. She was Program Manager at Kids’ Own Publishing for 6 years and Director from 2017. Anna has unique experience in bringing together artists, authors, designers and communities, having worked on well over 100 community publishing projects. Anna has built a strong partnership with researchers from Melbourne University’s Graduate School of Education, and Australian Catholic University’s Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, to better understand and share knowledge about the processes, benefits and impacts of child centred community publishing. She designed the Kids’ Own Languages program of publishing as a new way to explore and celebrate all the languages that children know, and the way they use them. Anna has also driven new directions with form: she was a key driver of Kids’ Home Publishing, a video series by artists and authors, responding to COVID by offering resources and inspiration for children to publish books from home.
Ailsa Wild
Writer in residence
Ailsa worked as a teaching artist for Kids’ Own Publishing for 12 years, then became a lead trainer and mentor for new artists. She has facilitated over 30 innovative publishing initiatives with a diverse range of communities. Ailsa has a Masters of Creative Media (creative writing) from RMIT and has been a member of the Women’s Circus since the year 2000. In her life outside Kids’ Own Publishing, Ailsa is a much published and much loved author of children’s books including two junior fiction series: ‘Squishy Taylor’ and ‘The Naughtiest Pixie’ (Hardie Grant Egmont), is the lead writer of Small Friends Books (CSIRO Publishing and Scale Free Network) and has authored non fiction titles for older readers – The Care Factor: a story of nursing and connection in the time of social distancing and You’ll be a Wonderful Dad!
Sadia Dubow
Distribution & Digital Marketing Coordinator
Sadia Dubow came to Kids’ Own Publishing in mid-2025 as an intern, and has now joined the team as the Distribution and Digital Marketing Coordinator. She majored in Children’s Literature at Deakin University and seeks to advocate for children’s right to own voice representation. In 2025 she worked on My Place, Our Place, Benim Place, Uri Place and she has since been a support artist on various book projects, as well as the project manager for the K-Publishing program. Alongside her work at Kids’ Own she writes fiction and is currently developing her first short story collection.