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Pinquo, the Penguin Hero
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...


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


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


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


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A Story About Ducks
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...


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Bert the Boobook owl
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...