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Children's Fiction, Young Adult Ficti ASA List of Mentors Catherine Bateson Location: Melbourne, Victoria Preferred genres: children’s fiction, young adult fiction, poetry Preferred method of contact: email and Skype. Catherine Bateson writes verse novels, fiction and poetry for children, young adults and adults. She has been published by UQP, Omnibus, Woolshed Press (Random House), A&U, and John Leonard Press. Her work has received numerous awards and short listings, including the Queensland Premier’s Children’s Book of the Year and CBCA Book of the Year. Catherine teaches professional writing and editing at Federation Training and The Literature Centre, Fremantle, and is also a partner in the Publishing and Editing services business, Tyle & Bateson. She has a BA with a double major in Art History, a B.Litt in Literary Studies and a Grad Dip in Creative Arts. Laura Bloom Location: Bryon Bay, NSW Preferred genres: fiction, young adult literature, graphic novels Preferred method of contact: phone, Skype and email. Laura Bloom is a writer of fiction and young adult fiction. Her novels have been published by Allen & Unwin, Penguin and Pan Macmillan in Australia, and in the USA, Canada and France. Her latest novel, The Cleanskin has just been released by The Author People and is available worldwide. Her work has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Awards and the ABC Fiction Prize, and her YA novel, Augustine’s Lunch, was runner up in the Young Australian Readers’ Awards. Laura has a BA, Communications, from the University of Technology, Sydney. She lives in a small town near Byron Bay with her family. Leslie Cannold Location: Melbourne, Victoria Preferred genres: adult literacy and general fiction and academic and general audience non-fiction Preferred method of contact: Skype Dr Leslie Cannold is a fiction and non-fiction author, educator, researcher and ethicist whose contributions to public life have been recognised by awards for Australian Humanist of the year and multiple gongs as one of Australia’s most influential public intellectuals and women. Founding Faculty at The School of Life and adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University, Leslie has taught and mentored fiction and non-fiction writers through the University of Melbourne, the ASA and the Wheeler Centre. Her books include The Abortion Myth, What, No Baby and the historical novel The Books of Rachael, as well as fiction and non-fiction contributions to multiple collections including Destroy the Joint, the Australian Book of Atheism and the Women of Letters series. She is currently working on her second novel At The Abbotsford Convent. Julie Chevalier Location: Sydney, NSW Genres: fiction, poetry Preferred contact: face-to-face, Skype, phone, email, mail Julie Chevalier believes that working with a mentor is the most efficient (not to mention pleasant) way to improve writing skills and manuscripts. Many manuscripts she has worked on have been published. She has taught writing courses, workshops and online courses for schools, TAFE Outreach, prisons, Poetry Australia, writers centres and the WEA. She has given guest lectures at universities. Julie's short fiction and poetry are often written in response to art or literature. She is a volunteer job adviser at the Asylum Seekers' Centre. She has MAs in Literature (University of Sydney) and Writing (UTS). Laura Daniel Location: Urunga, NSW Preferred genres: fiction Preferred method of contact: telephone, email, Skype Laura has worked in publishing for nearly 50 years dealing with a wide range of subject matter, both fact and fiction. She now specialises in fiction— literary, historical, romance, fantasy and the paranormal. Laura is a published novelist, poet, travel writer, and history author as well as a contributing author to many works of natural history and general-knowledge non-fiction and was formerly both Editor and Designer of The Australian Museum’s flagship journal, Australian Natural History magazine. She is a non-published screenwriter, lyricist and composer. Since 1979, she has worked freelance as a manuscript assessor and editor for publishing houses large and small in Australia and the US as well as working directly with individual authors worldwide. Nadine Davidoff Location: Melbourne, Victoria Genres: literary non- fiction, fiction Preferred contact: phone & email Nadine Davidoff is a freelance book editor and writing/editing teacher. Before starting her own editorial consultancy in 2006, she worked as a commissioning editor at Random House and Black Inc. As well as her freelance work, she lectures in publishing and editing at Melbourne University in the School of Culture and Communication. Sue DeGennaro Location: Melbourne, Victoria Preferred genres: children’s literature and picture books Preferred method of contact: phone, Skype, face to face Sue deGennaro has a degree in film, a diploma in fine art and a certificate in welding. In 2009 Sue received a mentorship from the ASA. In 2010 Sue was shortlisted for the Crichton award. The Pros and Cons of Being a Frog, which Sue both wrote and illustrated was a shortlisted CBCA book in 2013 and shortlisted for The Children’s Peace Literature Award. Since then Sue has illustrated 17 books. Her work has been published by Scholastic, HarperCollins, Allen and Unwin, Penguin, Walker Books and Simon and Schuster USA. Many of Sue’s books have been translated and sold in the USA, United Kingdom, France, China, Korea and Germany. Other CBCA Notable titles include One Funky Money, Button Boy and The Vegetable Ark. Sue teaches Writing for Children and at RMIT and CAE, and has taught Picture Book Illustration at NMIT in Melbourne. Sue’s second picture book, Eddie Frogbert, will be published in 2017. Garry Disher Location: Mornington Peninsula, Victoria Preferred genres: fiction, young adult fiction and children’s fiction (no fantasy or science fiction) Preferred method of contact: email & phone Garry Disher has published 50 highly-praised and widely translated books in a range of genres: crime thrillers, literary/general novels, short-story collections, YA/children’s novels, and writers’ handbooks. An experienced mentor and creative writing teacher, he has also toured Germany and the United States, where his crime and YA novels have appeared on best-books-of-the-year lists and won awards. His latest crime novels are Signal Loss, seventh in the popular Challis and Destry series (the fourth, Chain of Evidence was awarded best crime novel of the year), the highly-regarded Bitter Wash Road and the eighth Wyatt thriller The Heat. Hazel Edwards Location: Melbourne, Victoria Preferred genres: picture books, fiction for children and YA, as well as adult non-fiction Preferred method of contact: Skype webchat, telephone, email, face- to-face. Best known for There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake, which toured as a musical in 2016, Hazel writes across media, and has co- authored young adult novels such as f2m; The Boy Within with Ryan Kennedy using Skype, and non- fiction Difficult Personalities with Dr Helen McGrath and Authorpreneurship: The business of creativity. Hazel mentors gifted students, runs non- boring writing workshops for genealogists, web- chats at literary festivals and talks about writing for children, non-fiction projects and ‘Authorpreneurship’. Her memoir Not Just a Piece of Cake: Being an Author gives insight into the challenges of writing unconventional memoirs. Those she's mentored often call themselves her 'Hazelnuts'. Brook Emery Location: Sydney, NSW Genres: poetry only Preferred contact: email, face-to-face Brook’s first three books of poetry were And Dug My Fingers in the Sand (FIP 2000), which won the Judith Wright Calanthe Prize in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Misplaced Heart (FIP 2003) and Uncommon Light (FIP 2007). All three were short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. His fourth book, Collusion, was published by John Leonard Press in July 2012 and short-listed for the Western Australian Premier’s Prize. Individual poems have won the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and the Max Harris Literary Award. He directed the Australian Poetry Festival in 2008 and 2010, ran the Brett Whiteley Readings in Sydney for ten years, and was until recently Chairperson of the Poets Union. Kate Forsyth Location: Sydney, NSW Genres: fiction, children’s fiction & creative non- fiction Preferred contact: email, Skype, face-to-face Kate Forsyth wrote her first novel aged seven, and has now sold more than a million books internationally. Her adult novels include The Beast’s Garden, The Wild Girl, and Bitter Greens, which won the 2015 ALA Award for Best Historical Fiction. Kate’s children’s books include ‘The Impossible Quest’ series, The Puzzle Ring and The Chain of Charms series, which won five Aurealis Awards. Named one of Australia's Favourite 15 Novelists, Kate has a doctorate in fairy tale studies and is an accredited master storyteller. Kate is also a direct descendant of Charlotte Waring Atkinson, the author of the first book for children ever published in Australia. www.kateforsyth.com.au Twitter: @KateForsyth Diana Giese Location: Sydney, NSW Genres: non-fiction and fiction Preferred contact: email, face-to-face, telephone Diana has worked for publishers large and small, including Macmillan, Oxford University Press, HarperEducational and Brandl & Schlesinger, in Australia and overseas. She has collaborated with many writers to help them develop their best work, and produced and promoted prize-winners and excellent sellers. She is the author of six books, and has also worked as a literary journalist for major newspapers and ABC radio, and served on writers’ festivals and prize committees. http://www.dianagiese.com.au/ Sue Gough Location: Brisbane, Queensland Genres: adult literary fiction, young adult fiction, memoir Preferred contact: email, phone, Skype, face to face Sue Gough is an award winning novelist, critic and broadcaster. She has served as deputy chair of the Australia Council Literature Fund, and on the boards of the Queensland State Library and Brisbane Writers Festival.
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