Nerida Newton
 Nerida Newton (born 1972) is an Australian novelist whose first novel The Lambing Flat won the Emerging Author category for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. In 2004 The Lambing Flat was shortlisted the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Asia/Pacific region (Best First Book) and One Book One Brisbane. Later that year Nerida was named by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of Australia's best young novelists.