Gabrielle Wang

Some time ago I put my hand up to join the Befriend a Child in Detention project and write letters to children in the Nauru Detention Centre. From the website: Befriend a Child in Detention is a community project committed to seeing an end to the detention of child asylum seekers. We aim to inspire and support…

Lately I find myself writing posts about other people’s blog posts and today I’m doing it again. Meg McKinlay has written a wonderful post about ‘quiet writing’, writing where action is not the driving force. She talks about how she has to focus on ‘things happening’ and that ‘forward narrative movement is the hardest thing of…

Read, Write, Draw is a Flipboard magazine collating selected recent blog posts by Australian authors and illustrators. It replaces OZKYAI (Oz Kids & Young adult Authors & Illustrators) which I curated on Scoop-it. Finally I have found a better-fit name. I struggle with titles – just look at the titles of my books. Polar Boy. Samurai…

These are my birthday books. These are the reasons I chose them: Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan –  It was CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers but that’s not why I chose it (although that would have been good enough to influence me). I read Tender Morsels last year and it really engaged my…

Today I have my fancy dress on – the one with the shiny things on the front, my coloured glass jewellery (more shiny things) and gold sandals – OK I’m not much of a fashion follower – but I do have an important job today. I’m launching a book. Not just any book. A book…