Q&As and Interviews posts
Q&A with Charmaine Ledden-Lewis
Thank you! I’ve enjoyed art my whole life; the practice, appreciation and exploration of it. My parents have always been very e…
Readings Prize spotlight: Q&A with Alice Robinson
Thank you so much! …
Readings Prize spotlight: Q&A with Amanda O'Callaghan
Thank you! I’m truly ho…
Readings Prize spotlight: Q&A with Alice Bishop
Thank you. I feel very lucky…
Readings Prize spotlight: Q&A with Joshua Lobb
Thank you for including me on the shortli…
Readings Prize spotlight: Q&A with Angela Meyer
A Superior Spectre is about a man who abuses an experimental technology that allows him to enter the mind of a woman in the past. It’s also…
Q&A with Readings Children’s Book Prize winner Carly Nugent
We sat down with the Carly Nugent – author of the 2019 Readings Children’s Book Prize winner The Peacock Detectives – to talk about what makes a good mystery, what inspired her book and what she’s been reading.
Congratulations on winning the Readings Children’s Book Prize! Can you tell us a bit about why you wanted to write this story? Has the book been with you for a while?Thank you! It’s s…
Q&A with Stephanie Bishop
Meet emerging children’s book illustrator Sophie Beer
I usually start off with a mood board of things that inspire me. Photos! Other illustrations! Cross-stitches! A soup recipe! Interpretive dance! Anything can be inspirational. I then…