April 2007

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Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards (8/09/2006)

• Lorraine travelled to Gunnedah where with Claire Saxby again judged the Dorothea Mackellar poetry awards for 2006.  Judging 11558 entries from 777 schools around Australia.

Check out this website to read the winning poems from primary and secondary schools around Australia.  http://www.dorothea.com.au

• I have just written the teachers' notes for the colour theme/topic for
  the Dorothea Mackellar awards for 2007. Check out the site and have a go
  at the techniques.
  
  http://www.dorothea.com.au/index.cfm?page_id=1005
   

Poetry workshops for schools 

• While in the Gunndeah region  I took workshops in Narrabri, Narrabri West, Gunnedah, Gunnedah South, St.Xaviers Gunnedah, Mullaley and Dubbo South Public schools.

(4/10/06-6/11/06)

• I have also completed poetry and creative writing workshops in Kangaroo Flat cluster here in Bendigo including : Kangaroo Flat primary, Specimen Hill, Lockwood South, Bridgewater,   Maiden Gully, Lockwood and also Kangaroo Flat Secondary school. As well as Spring Gully Primary school.  Contact me here if you’d like to book workshops for 2007.

info@lorrainemarwood.com

Upcoming publications

• ‘The Girl who turned into Treacle’ will be published in June 2007 as part of the Aussie Nibbles, Penguin series.  Have you ever wanted a birthday present so much that you were in danger of turning  into…

My second collection of children's poetry, that downhill yelling, was launched on 12 November 2005 in Bendigo, Victoria.

that downhill yelling, Publisher: Five Islands Press, ISBN: 174128 094 X

Here's what Jonathan Shaw, Editor of School Magazine, New South Wales has to say about the collection:

"Football, cows, bikes and geese; hillsides and long grass, books and the history of Bendigo; the classroom, the laundry, and even the freeway; the poems in this book visit all of these with infectious joy. If I ever use the phrase downhill all the way again, it will inevitably have a new, exuberant meaning."

In July 2005 I was part of a two judge team, with my friend Claire Saxby, which has done just that. The Dorothea MacKellar poetry award is one of the biggest poetry competitons Australia wide for primary and secondary school aged children.

The judges, Claire Saxby and Lorraine Marwood with poet Anne Bell