Meredith Downes

Pinquo starts with an ominous warning – a prologue that tells us the main character, a cute and no doubt lovable penguin we are about to...

Recently, I won the 2022 Storylinks Short Story Competition (For Writers 18+) for my young adult story, The Pop Girls. I was excited...

The year was 1920 and the city was Brisbane. Two fourteen year old boys decided they were going to write and illustrate their own...

Later this year, I will be heading to the 2022 CYA conference for writers and illustrators of children's and young adult fiction (and...

I am drawn to stories about animals and love to write them myself. I recently came across this little curiosity, a picture book from 1945...

I'm going to tell you about a friend of mine. Some people called him Bert. But I never paid much attention. To me, he was Hooty and that...