I write stories for all age groups:
The Rose Leopard (University of Queensland Press 2003)
Bloodlines (Strictly Literary 2009)
Drink the Air (Winner of the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Award for Young Adult Fiction)
Spring Rain (Self-published 2011)
Joyous and Moonbeam (Scholastic 2013; short-listed for the 2014 West Australian Premier’s Awards)
This Is My Song (Scholastic 2017; Winner of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Literature; Finalist in the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards)
The Happiness Quest (Scholastic 2018)
Other credits include:
- Medal in the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2011 for services to education, literature and performing arts
- Recipient of a 2015 May Gibbs Literature Trust Creative Time Fellowship for the creation of This Is My Song
- Winner of the 2016 FAW NSW Walter Stone Award for Life Writing for Homecoming, a memoir of my great-uncle who landed and died at Gallipoli on April 25th, 1915.
- Recipient of an Australia Council Literature Board Grant for Emerging Writers in 2011-2012
- Joint winner of the 2004 Queensland Theatre Company Expressions Play-script Competition for Heart
I offer workshops on the writing process to children and young adult groups via Speaker’s Ink: Richard Yaxley and Homegrown: Queensland’s Kid Lit Creators, Homegrown
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