Ali’s Writing CV

2018

• SCBWI Queensland Sunshine Coast Sub-branch Coordinator
• Launches Sunshine Coast Writers’ Roundtable, building creative community
• Launches full-time writing career

2017

• Winner Australian Society of Authors Mentorship – Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Mentorship Program supported by Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, Children’s category. Mentor: Catherine Bateson

2016

• Winifred Weatherby Saves the Century wins second place in Category 4b (MG) of the CYA Conference Competition.(And the judge, an editor from a  major Aussie publisher, requested the full manuscript).
• 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.

2015

• 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.

2014

• 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

2013

• 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]

2012

• Scorned won the Gold Coast Writers’ Festival Conference Contest
• Empty Nest got an honourable mention at the Gold Coast Writers’ Fest
• A New York literary agency signed Ali for Summer of the Silk Dragon. 

2011

• 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

2010

• Photophobia placed third in CYA Conference (YA category)

Pre-2010

• Ali’s Writing Apprenticeship

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

Ali is a proud member of:

• Australian Society of Authors
• SCBWI (Former assistant to the regional rep, now sub-branch coordinator)
• Write Links
• Book Links

Ali Applauds

• The Pyjama Foundation – Literacy Mentoring for Kids in Care

CC Image, Royal Pink by Jeremy Brooks