May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust

June 02, 2014

A fantastic week in Adelaide and Millicent!

This past week I’ve been busy meeting children, teachers, librarians and parents in South Australia.  There were 14 school talks (to 17 different schools – some of whom were bussed into the venue), a workshop with…

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August 09, 2013

May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Days 22, 23, 24, 25, 26

Sometimes finishing a story is not quite as straightforward as you hope it will be.  My goal to have the draft completed by Tuesday didn’t eventuate.  Not because I wasn’t putting in 14 hour writing days…

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August 04, 2013

May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Creative Time Fellowship Days 19, 20 and 21

If you were to read this post and this post only, you might come to the conclusion that I’m having a complete holiday – that is not true at all.  But I did have a day…

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July 31, 2013

May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Creative Time Fellowship Days 15 and 16

This week I’ve had the pleasure of visiting East Marden Primary School where I spoke with two groups of students and today I visited Glenelg Library to speak to over 80 girls from two of…

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July 29, 2013

May Gibbs Children’s Literature Creative Time Fellowship Days 12, 13, 14

Friday was a great writing day.  I needed to make good progress and I did.  For whatever reason, a whole lot of threads started to unravel, characters came into focus and I can see where…

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