Pip Harry's Are You There Buddha? is published by Hachette Australia and Mark Carthew's The Thing That Goes Ping! is shortlisted in the 2021 Speech Pathology Australia Book of The Year Awards.
It was all arranged. Flights booked, suitcase dusted off, meals cooked and frozen for the family. And then Perth had a sudden lockdown due to a case of COVID, not three days before my departure. South Australia closed its border...
These children’s authors and illustrators make a wonderful addition to our pool of 2021 and 2022 Creative Time Residential Fellowships. We look forward to seeing more of their inspiring work.
Our first Creative Time Residential Fellow for 2021 was award-winning Australian children’s author, poet, musician and educator Dr Mark Carthew. The author of many children's books including The Thing That Goes Ping! and The Dingle Dangle Jungle, Mark is well-known for his entertaining celebration of language, humour and wordplay.
Deb Fitzpatrick talks about her Creative Time Residential Fellowship in Canberra which included starting on a new novel and sightseeing around the nation's capital.
Fiona Levings talks about the opportunity provided by the 2020 Ian Wilson Memorial Fellowship that enabled her to advance work on the illustration of her non-fiction picture book Before the Mountain had a Name.
May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Applications for 2021 Creative Time Residential Fellowships are now open. Published authors or illustrators of at least one book for children or young people are invited to apply for “the gift of time”. The May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust provides accommodation, local support, and travel to our host city Adelaide.
We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the Ian Wilson Memorial Fellowship for 2020 is Fiona Levings, an illustrator and geologist from southern Tasmania. She will join us in Adelaide in March.
We have received very exciting news from Amelia Mellor, our second Ian Wilson Memorial Fellow, that her project, 'The Grandest Bookshop in the World' has been contracted for publication and will be on the shelves in 2021.