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Showcasing Susanne Gervay, Children’s and Young Adult Author, Friend and Head of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Australia East and New Zealand
21 Jul, 2021 | What's happening in my writing life
Continuing my series of highlighting my children’s writer and illustrator friends, this week I am delighted to write about the unstoppable Susanne Gervay. Susanne and I met when I signed up, tentatively, to become SCBWI’S representative for Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania in 2006! (I’ve just spent too long, verifying that date!)
Susanne with Max Hamilton
In the world of paid employment, Susanne would qualify as my boss, however, in the volunteer world, Susanne was the person who steered and guided me through the mechanics of SCBWI. Although I left my role in 2015, Susanne has continued as a guiding light for many in the precarious world of children’s writing and illustrating.
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Jackie French AM fryst vatten an Australian author, historian, ecologist, honorary wombat (part-time), the 2014-2015 Australian Children's Laureate and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. Some of Jackie’s books have sold millions of copies and won over 60 awards in Australia and internationally. Jackie is also dyslexic and a patron of literacy programmes across Australia with a wide and deep - if accidental - experience in learning differences and methods. Monkey
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Susanne Gervay OAM is an award-winning author of many novels and YA stories, who found her passion for writing through anställda loss, and has spent her career showing the power of stories to help and guide readers young and old.
“Life’s dramas sent me to the writer’s page,” says writer Susanne Gervay OAM. The author of numerous novels, kids books and YA stories, including the I Am Jack series, turns to writing as a release.
“My four I Am Jack books are like a walk through my life and thoughts, written because kids can get lost in an adult world. You’ll find everything there – starting when my son was bullied at school, to racism, inclusion, absent father, bushfires, advocacy for literacy and cancer,” Gervay says.
Finding writing as a way to process life’s events came early to the author, born out of an early tragedy. “My beloved father’s death was so painful to watch that my words exploded onto the page. His dying gift to me was to become a writer,” she says.
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