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Libby Hathorn workshop - "How to write for children"Last modified: January 21, 2009 - 11:18 AM
AUSTRALIAN children's author and Australia Day Ambassador Libby Hathorn will be holding a workshop on "How to write for children" as part of her visit to Aberdeen and Scone for Australia Day The workshop will be held at Scone Library, 214 Kelly Street Scone on Sunday 25 January 2009 from 2pm. For more information, phone 6545 1451. At the workshop, Libby will also sign her books for residents and read from one of her forthcoming publications due for release in April 2009. Libby Hathorn is an award-winning Australian author of more than 50 books for children. Her stories have been translated into several languages and adapted for stage and screen. Her work has won honours in Australia as well as in the United States, United Kingdom and Holland. Libby lectures part-time in Creative Writing, Children's Literature, at Sydney University. As an Australia Day Ambassador, she travels to country towns each year where she talks about the importance of Australian literature. She was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2003 for services to children's literature. Hallmark Hall of Fame has made a movie of her best-selling young adult novel, Thunderwith, re-titled The Echo of Thunder. It starred Judy Davis, nominated for an EMMY award in the US for her performance as Gladwyn. In 2004, Libby's children's picture storybook, Sky Sash So Blue, published in the United States, was performed as an opera in Birmingham, Alabama. Previously, Grandma's Shoes was performed as a children's opera by Opera Australia and Theatre of Image. Libby was awarded an AWGIE for the libretto. Her picture storybook Way Home won the Kate Greenaway Medal in the UK and a Parents' Choice in the US and was adapted as a stage play. Her most recent works include historical novel, Georgiana:Woman of Flowers (Hachette Livre) as well as the play, based on her picture storybook, The Tram to Bondi Beach (Currency Press), both released in 2008. With a life-long interest and passion for poetry, she is currently working on a special arts/literacy project entitled 100 Views in several schools, both here and internationally. 100 Views celebrates community through poetry, artwork and a festival. Her documentary 100 Views Kathmandu made while volunteering in Nepal this April, is being shown on community television in several states. Her collection of Australian poetry All Along the River and upcoming novel Fire Song, are both in development with the ABC for publication in 2009. Contact details |
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