Congratulations to author and illustrator Kate Marie Lewis on being awarded an
She was awarded one of the two Emerging SA Literary Fellowships by Writers SA and the State Library of South Australia to research, write and illustrate her narrative nonfiction picture book about grey headed flying foxes.
Congratulations to illustrator Marjorie Crosby-Fairall for being chosen as a Finalist for the Bologna Book Fair 2025 Illustrators Exhibition.
The Bologna Children's Book Fair has been working for over 60 years to discover new trends and rising talents in global illustration.
This year, 4,374 illustrators entered for the Illustrators Exhibition 2025, with a total of 21,870 submissions coming from 89 countries and regions.
To determine the winners, the international jury shortlisted 324 finalist artists.
Marjorie’s illustration submission was a sequence of illustrations from her upcoming picture book Emmie Builds Something New. The book will be her debut as both author and illustrator and will be published in 2025.
Congratulations to author Pamela Rushby on winning the junior section of
a paperback middle grade fiction published by Walker Books
03 April 2024
Pamela Rushby's middle grade novel 'The Mud Puddlers' has won the junior section of Women Writers of NSW awards. Her historical fiction 'Those Girls' was commended in the adult section.
What an outstanding achievement!
