Allison Rushby made a wish when she was six years old. She wished to be a ballerina with pierced ears. Not long after this, she wrote her very first book (not about a ballerina) and decided to be an author with pierced ears instead.

She went on to write many more books, for both adults and children, though none of them were sticky-taped together like that first one. She lives in Brisbane with her family and her two not very useful assistants, Harry the Bordoodle and Titus the Sphynx.

www.allisonrushby.com

Talk and Workshop details

Talk: Author’s Secrets (Yrs 4-6)

Authors are solitary creatures, normally found tippity-tapping away on their laptops in their quiet studies, fuelled by cups of tea and surrounded by leather-bound books. They write every day, never get distracted and always meet their deadlines. Or maybe that’s not quite true? In Author Secrets, award-winning Junior Fiction and Middle Grade author Allison Rushby gives primary students a look into what it’s really like to be an author. Where do ideas come from? How do you write when you don’t really feel like it? Do you have to write every day? Secrets duly divulged, young writers will be shown tips and tricks that will help with their own writing, including how to find ideas, get the words down and draft something fabulous in a voice that is all their own.

Thurs 22 Feb : 9.30am - 10.15am; 11am - 11.45am; 12.30pm - 1.15pm

Fri 23 Feb: 9.30am - 10.15am; 11.00am - 11.45am; 12.30pm - 1.15pm