Ali’s Literary CV

SCBWI – QLD State Conference Executive Committee
Awarded arts grant – Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) from the Sunshine Coast Council for a mentorship with a top Australian kidlit author (Fabulous Mentor: TBA!)
Artist-in-Residence with Kellie Byrnes at the Crows Nest (photo below), Sunshine Coast Council Creative Spaces Initiative
CBCA Book Week Guest Author & Workshop Presenter – Saving Arcadia

Winner Australian Society of Authors Mentorship – Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Mentorship Program supported by Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, Children’s category. Mentor: Catherine Bateson
CBCA Book Week Guest Author & Workshop Presenter

Winifred Weatherby Saves the Century wins second place in Category 4b (MG) of the CYA Conference Competition.
CBCA Book Week Guest Author & Workshop Presenter
The Quest for the Scales of Time wins the runner-up position in WriteAway Spain.
Ever learning, always revising, Ali rewrites last year’s manuscript, making it a richer Gaslamp Fantasy, best described as a Peter Pan/Indiana Jones mashup. Presenting: The Temple of Lost Time.
A sequel, Flight of the Thunder Dragon, is well underway.
Ali outlines a middle grade historical caper with STEM and a YA Rom Com Caper Underdawgs .
Ali takes up a part-time employment opportunity in Marketing & Communications.

Screening Screen Use: Preparing Students for Healthy Technology Use published in Screen Education magazine [Issue 77, Autumn 2015]
Toby Fitzroy & The Quest for the Scales of Time, a middle grade novel, is born and launched into the literary world, receiving requests for full manuscripts from five Australian publishers and one American agent. Unfortunately, no one claims it.

The Hunting of the Muse ranks 6th in the CYA Conference Competition (Middle Grade Category) and generates full MS requests from an Aussie publishing professional and an agent
Ali wins a placement with AssistantPress.me as a blogging superhero (aka a Content Press Assistant)
Ali completes Set for Life Senior Secondary and Middle School Life Skills curriculum package

Summer of the Silk Dragon is shopped to several major US publishers but doesn’t find a home.
One Shandy Too Many short-listed and published on Australian Literature Review
Foul Play at Winterfest submitted to a well-known mystery series for ghostwriting op
1:1 Learning with iPads: One Middle School’s Experience is published in Adolescent Success journal [Volume 13, Number 2]

Saving Aggie Blue placed second in CYA Conference Contest (YA Category)
A Thousand Miles to Meet wasn’t short-listed in the CYA Contest, but it came in fifth place! (YA Category)
Alison completes e-Quipped Digital Citizenship & Cybersafety curriculum package

And while all of the above is going on, Ali is blogging up a storm here and on e-Quipped.

Image by Amador Loureiro on Unsplash