Sarah Walker (Australian author)

Sarah Walker (born 1965) is an Australian author, screenwriter and script producer. She has written for several serial dramas, including Home and Away, Neighbours, and All Saints. She co-created the comedy drama Wonderland with Jo Porter in 2013. Walker has also written novels and worked as a journalist and actor, appearing in Man of Flowers (1983).^[2]

Sarah Walker
Born	1965 (age 59–60)[1] Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation(s)	Writer, script producer

Early and personal life

Walker was born and raised in Sydney.^[3] As a teenager she wrote scripts, and she briefly worked as an actress. She studied creative writing while working in the magazine industry, and she has a BA Communication from the University of Technology Sydney. She was the chief subeditor of New Weekly.^[1][3]

Walker is openly lesbian and came out when she was 16.^[3]

Career

Walker received a publishing contract for two novels,^[3] and she wrote the coming out story The Year of Freaking Out in 1997.^[4][5] She began her screen writing career with the serial drama Breakers.^[6] Following its cancellation, she moved onto Home and Away and All Saints.^[3][4] She helped create the character Charlotte Beaumont (played by Tammy MacIntosh), who was initially a lesbian, however, when Walker left the serial, Charlotte became straight.^[3] Walker has written for Neighbours, HeadLand, and A Place To Call Home. She helped develop Winners & Losers and co-created Wonderland.^[3] Walker has also worked on Wentworth.^[6]

In 2016, Walker received an Australian Writers' Guild nomination for "Episode 6381" of Home and Away in the Best Script for a Television Serial category.^[7]

In 2023, Walker was announced as part of the writing team for the second series of The Twelve (Australian TV series),^[8] Walker also wrote an episode for SBS series Erotic Stories.^[9]

Selected credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2022-present	The Twelve	Script Writer & Eexc producer	8 episodes
2023	Erotic Stories	Writer	1 episode
2023	Mother and Son (2023 TV series)	Writer	3 episodes
2019	Bad Mothers	Writer	1 episode
2013-15	Wentworth (TV series)	Script consultant	7 episodes
	Wonderland	Script producer	44 episodes
2011	Winners and Losers	Script producer	8 episodes
2001-05	All Saints (TV series)	Editor/Writer	24 episodes
2000-18	Home and Away	Script consultant/ Writer	289 episodes
1998-99	Breakers	Story editor	429 episodes

Books

• Simple Things - published by Pan Macmillan, 1996
• The Year of Freaking Out - published by Pan Macmillan, 1997
• Camphor Laurel - published by Pan Macmillan, 1998 (Winner Honour Children's Book of the Year)
• Water Colours - published by Hodder, 2000
• If Only - published by Published by Hodder Headline, 2001
• The Tin Man - published by Allen & Unwin, 2000
• Lucky Three - published by Hodder, 2003