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August 4th, 2024

Book Week is coming, and all over Australia children’s authors are preparing for several intensive weeks of school visits. I’ll be visiting Sydney schools in the week starting Monday, August Continue reading

July 7th, 2024

A week ago, the people in my little dead-end street of twelve houses held a mid-winter feast. My neighbour Gina and I had the idea last year, but were too Continue reading

June 2nd, 2024

My big news is that Spellhound won the 2024 Aurealis Award for Best Australian Children’s Fiction (fantasy and sf)! This was wildly exciting because the Aurealis is one of the Continue reading

December 19th, 2022

To my astonishment and delight, Ella and the Ocean was declared the winner of the Minister for the Arts Prize for Books for Children and Young People at the 2022 Continue reading

October 3rd, 2021

One of most useful things I’ve learnt over the years is that no two books can be written the same way. I used to think that I just had to Continue reading

April 26th, 2020

Have you ever had a secret that you absolutely couldn’t tell anybody until a certain date? And you couldn’t wait to tell people about it, but at the same time Continue reading

April 12th, 2020

The nicest thing that has happened recently is that Ella and the Ocean has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s literary awards – specifically, the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Continue reading

January 19th, 2020

When my country is on fire, is writing children’s books still a useful thing to do? This is a question that has been puzzling me over the last couple of Continue reading

July 7th, 2019

Ella lived in the red-dirt country where the earth was as dry as old bones and it hadn’t rained for years and years and years. It’s four weeks and a Continue reading

May 26th, 2019

My parents met and married in the Northern Territory during the Second World War. My father was a soldier just returned from Palestine. My mother was an army nurse. That Continue reading

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