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Follow me! After loads of writing and editing and working to find a publisher, my first novel, Takeshita Demons, is on the way. Follow my progress into the world of the “published writer” at my blog on the road to getting published or on Twitter. |
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Takeshita Demons wins Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Book Award Takeshita Demons, my 20,000-word adventure romp for younger readers, has won the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book Award. The prize includes option for Frances Lincoln books to publish the MS. |
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Winner: Voices on the Coast 2008 One Weekend with Killiecrankie, has won the 2008 Voices on the Coast writing competition, held in Queensland as part of a youth literature festival. Thanks to Varuna House and Julia Lawrinson for all their help and advice! |
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National manuscript award My first children’s manuscript, One Weekend with Killiecrankie, has won a “Young and Emerging Writer” fellowship, awarded by Varuna House. This means I have been selected as one of five emerging young writers in Australia...Yee ha! |
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Going grid I’m currently working as an outreach coordinator for the GridTalk project, helping to promote a great technology called “grid computing” that uses shared computing resources to help scientists around the world collaborate on big projects, like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), or researching climate change, cancer cures and more. |
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Wish you were here... Check out the next issue of DestinAsian for my latest article, a travel piece on fabulous Ogasawara, a series of super-remote sub-tropical Japanese islands, home to some amazing diving and great food. What a fabulous trip! |
