Sandy Fussell

Recently I headed to Sutherland Library for the launch of Georgie Donaghey’s gorgeous debut picture book, Lulu. It was a full house. A crowd of young people nabbed the front row seats eager to hear the story and get close to the author who was wearing a very cool polar bear beanie. Up the back,…

I have a new project and I am both excited by it and thrilled by the response to it. I probably sound over-earnest, over-enthusiastic and all too serious but this is something that is important to me. ReadWriteZone is a project aimed at fostering an interest in reading and writing though blog-based classroom interaction between…

I been a little blog absent of late. I’ve just been so busy – writing to an approaching deadline and doing a number of day trips into educational literacy. One of those excursions involved holding a Masterclass for primary school students at the State Library as part of the Sydney Writer’s Festival. For a number…

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…

I’m very excited to be part of Wollongong City Gallery’s Just Imagine 2010 project. I’m a sort-of author in residence – opening the exhibition and running writing workshops for students and teachers. The program “encourages children’s creative writing skills by the exploration of real and imagined worlds experienced through close engagement with art” to plagiarise…

My friends and colleagues are often involved in writing challenges like NaNoWriMo where they write a novel in a month. The mind boggles in admiration – I have neither the time nor the ability to produce this mega output. But recently I found that I have accidentally set myself a challenge after all. I have…