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Katy Watson-Kell

Katy Watson-Kell was born in Scotland and moved to Western Australia when she was ten. After leaving high school on a whim, she spent the next ten years talking her way into a smorgasbord of occupations including golf course attendant, handbag seller and professional luncher. Eventually her creative juices bubbled to the surface and her first young adult novel, Juice, won the Avis Page Award for the highest ranking Australian novel (Older Readers category) in the West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards 2002. Katie’s second novel mama’s trippin’ was shortlisted for a Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards and the West Australian Young Reader’s Book Awards (Older Readers’ Category).

Awards

Winner, Inaugural Katherine Susannah Pritchard Foundation Science Fiction Award, 1997
Winner, West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award, 2002
Short listed, Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, 2006

Books available from Fremantle Press

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Wilderness Society Award

Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things