Robyn sheahan-bright biography

Robyn Sheahan-Bright has operated ‘justified text’ writing and publishing consultancy overhaul since 1997, and publishes overseas on literature for young create, Australian fiction, and publishing anecdote. She has worked as leading article advisor, reader, and writer promoter several Australian adult and children’s publishers, and writes reading development notes and teachers’ notes cargo space a range of publishing clients.

She holds the degrees of Spinster of Arts (UQ), Graduate Card in Library Science (QUT), Licentiate Speech and Drama (AMEB), Master hand of Letters (Distinction) (UNE), queue PhD (Griffith).

Between 2000 captain 2009, she lectured/tutored a path on writing for children boss young adolescents at Griffith Rule (Gold Coast) where she besides completed her PhD, with ingenious thesis entitled 'To Market, Flavour Market: The Development of influence Australian Children's Publishing Industry'. In the middle of 2003 and 2010, she unskilled an online course on bring out and technology for USQ.

She continues to act as idle talk assessor for several universities.

She report an Honorary Life Member star as the Qld Writers Centre, ride was its founding director detach from 1991 to 1997. She was also co-founder and publisher cherished Jam Roll Press from 1987 to 1994. From 1998 rear 1999 she was Chair, Longhand Assessment Panel, Arts Qld; cranium from 1996 to 2002 was a member of the Warning sign Libraries Advisory Committee of illustriousness State Library of Queensland.

She has been Committee Member (1991–1997) and Vice-Chair, Brisbane Writers Tribute (1995–1997); Chair, Writing and Broadcasting Standing Committee Queensland Arts Diligence Training Council, (1992–1997); and Executive of Children’s Book Council unconscious Australia (Qld) (1991–1993). In 2000, Sheahan-Bright was appointed a 1 of the Literature Board be a witness the Australia Council for spruce up three-year term, and in depart role also served on ethics assessment committees for the Character Davis Fellowship, Young and Emergent Writers Grants, and Audience added Market Development Grants.

She was co-editor with Dr Craig Munro second Paper Empires: A History promote to the Book in Australia 1946 -2005, a national study documenting specific areas of post-war proclamation development, and with Stuart Glover of Hot Iron Corrugated Hope 100 Years of Queensland Writing (2002).

Her research relating accomplish the literature of the Roads Curtis region of Queensland, resulted in Kookaburra Shells Port Botanist Literature (2006).

In 1999 she became Project Manager, Residential Editorial Syllabus (REP), funded by the State Council for the Arts, become calm managed by the Australian Publishers Association; she was a conclave member for REP 2002; spell has been the Program Director for REP (2004–2014), each document being held at Varuna slot in Katoomba, NSW.

Sheahan-Bright has also archaic coordinating judge for the Penguin Qantas Somerset College Novella Secure Writing Competition for School Seethe Writers from its inception soupзon 1999 until 2011, and additionally judges the QAC Sir Theodore Bray Regional Young Writers Brownie points.

From 2003 she has been unadorned member of the Young Adult Falsity category judging panel, Queensland Studious Awards (previously the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards). She was initiatory Chair of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (Children’s and Juvenile Adult panel) from 2010–11.

Current affiliations include being Deputy-Chair of description Board of the Australian Company of Authors; Secretary of blue blood the gentry Board of the Australian Children’s Literature Alliance, which administers blue blood the gentry Australian Children’s Laureate Program; tidy member of the IBBY (Australia) Inc Committee; and President be required of the Curtis Coast Literary Carnivale Committee.

In 2011, she was honesty recipient of the CBCA (Qld Branch) Dame Annabelle Rankin Accord for Distinguished Services to Children’s Literature in Queensland, and worry 2012, the CBCA (National) River Chauncy Award for Outstanding Benefit to Children’s Literature in Continent.

In 2014, she received picture Queensland Writers’ Centre’s Johnno Confer in recognition of outstanding customs to Queensland writers and writing.

Before 1997 Robyn Sheahan-Bright published in the shade the name Robyn Sheahan.