by Akina Hansen | Aug 15, 2023 |
For 20 years, Red Room Poetry has supported Australian poets, from nurturing new and emerging talent to providing a platform for established voices.
In this special anniversary volume, A Line In The Sand, Red Room brings together over eighty pieces from leading poets and public figures in a retrospective that covers twenty years of the best Australian poetry.
With work from poets including Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Tony Birch, Eloise Grills, Sarah Holland-Batt, Jazz Money, Omar Musa, Bruce Pascoe, Maria Tumarkin and Uncle Archie Roach AC, this collection provides illumination, space to speak and to listen, connection between truth and dreams, loss and life.
by Rowena Morcom | Aug 14, 2023 |
Age range 3+
Bertie is perfectly safe, in her perfectly ordered room, with perfectly behaved pets, Bluebird and Billy. Everything sits in perfect order: her hair, her socks, her toys, her books. Until one day, when the window swings wide open…
Bertie’s story is all about bravery. With the help from her friends she discovers that fear is just a thought, and it doesn’t have to stop her from living her big adventure.
Bex Parkin is an artist and illustrator based in the UK. She studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins after completing her degree in Art History. It was her role sourcing antique and vintage textiles for the major fashion houses that inspired her love of pat-tern and colour. Bex’s preferred medium is traditional gouache, watercolour, coloured pencil and crayon.
Her client list includes Anthropologie, Design House Greetings, Museums and Galleries, Amber Lotus, Paperie and Djeco. Her collaboration with gelato company Nubocha won a GDUSA award for packaging.
by Rowena Morcom | Aug 14, 2023 |
What does a teenage boy do when he has no friends? When he is laughed at to his face? The answer is simple. That boy chooses his own path. That boy makes his own way in life. That boy grows stronger. He finds his secret place and there alone, in the dark he grows even stronger. Ben Gardner is such a boy.
Gary Crew is a masterful writer and In The Secret Place is an insightful and deeply moving example of his consummate art as a story-teller. The complex interweaving of themes of time and place with the mind of a boy trying to come to terms with his place in the world are beautifully evoked in this artfully structured and immensely satisfying novel. Helen Chamberlain, OAM. For Ben Gardner, lonely at home and bullied at school, his dreams of somewhere secret become reality when he chances on a cave and a stunningly powerful snake. Gary Crew has spun a compelling tale of a disabled adolescent finding his own place in the world. A powerful and thoughtful read. Libby Hathorn, Award-winning Author & Poet. A heart-warming, coming-of-age tale of friendship, resilience and courage. Simple yet eloquently written, the story immerses the reader into the life of a quirky and adventurous loner, struggling to cope with a disability, bullies and family upheaval. Unexpected friendships, an ancient granite stone, a secret cave and a giant python, all conspire to guide Ben down a road of redemption. Another timeless classic by a seasoned writer still at the top of his game. Jack Roney, Author. A genuine and sincere adventure of how adverse life situations burden children and how they find the strength to endure and survive, becoming the best version of themselves. Gary Crew writes with an authentic, youthful voice one cant help adopting and reflecting as their own on their own varying trials of youth. Lawrey Goodrick, Author.
by Rowena Morcom | Aug 14, 2023 |
It’s 1998, and Clara and her parents are staying at the Mount Buffalo Chalet. Struggling with grief after losing her twin brother, Clara’s life takes an unexpected turn when she befriends Guide Alice, an audacious rebel from the past. Their adventure is fraught with danger, as Clara discovers her courage was never far away…
Its 1998 and Clara and her parents are staying at the Mount Buffalo Chalet for the Centenary celebrations. This visit couldnt be more different from their lastthey were a family of four then. Now they’re just three separate people, orbiting around each other while trying to navigate their overwhelming grief. Without her twin brother, Clara doesn’t know who she is. Then she meets a girl who lives within the fern-filled valleys below Mount Buffalo. Clara is surprised to discover the girl is actually Guide Alice, a rebel of her time, an adventurous non-conformist who spent much of her life boldly leading people along rugged trails between granite tors and misty mountain peaks. When Clara and Alice come face-to-face with danger on the mountain, Clara must rediscover the courage she has always had and become the person she was always meant to be…
by Rowena Morcom | Aug 14, 2023 |
Age range 9+
Growing up in London, Michelle’s interests frequently bumped up against expectations of girls which she pushed through, including her love of playing soccer and chess, and later, her passion for science and technology. Professor Simmons is well-known for creating the field of atomic electronics. Since 2000 she established the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology dedicated to the making of tiny atomic-scale devices in silicon and germanium. Her research group at the University of New South Wales is the only group worldwide that can create atomically precise devices in silicon. It was also the first team in the world to develop a working ‘perfect’ single-atom transistor and the narrowest conducting doped wires in silicon.
In 2018 Michelle became Australian of the Year and is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She is passionate about encouraging girls to pursue a career in science and technology: ‘Seeing women in leadership roles and competing internationally … gives them the sense that anything is possible’.
Nova Weetman lives in Melbourne with her family. She has written for TV and is the author of many middle grade and young adult novels. The Secrets We Keep was shortlisted for the Readings Children’s Book Prize, the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards and the ABIA Awards. The sequel, The Secrets We Share, was a 2018 CBCA Notable Book and won the KROC Kids Reading Oz Choice Awards, NT – Best Fiction for Years 7 to 9. It was also shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards. Nova’s middle grade novel Sick Bay was a CBCA Notable Book and shortlisted for the ABIA Awards
