Rebecca

Newman

Writer & Poet

About

Official Bio

Rebecca M. Newman writes poetry and playscripts for children and short stories for adults and children. 

Rebecca's poetry has been published in anthologies with Bloomsbury, Bica Books, and Fremantle Press. You'll find her flash fiction for adults in anthologies published by Night Parrot Press. The School Magazine has published many of her pieces for young readers.

Rebecca is also the Managing Editor at Alphabet Soup Books. She was the 2023 & 2024 judge for the primary school category of the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards. 

Rebecca lives in Perth, Western Australia. When she's not writing you'll find her messing about with collage or playing Irish fiddle.

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Festivals & panels

• (2024) Australian Short Story Festival: Out of the Chrysalis panel. (Fremantle, Western Australia)

• (2024) Perth Writers Festival: children's creative workshop with Rebecca Newman and Tracey Dembo. State Library of WA. 

• (2024) Perth Writers Festival: Telling Tales panel with James Foley, Kylie Howarth and Rebecca Newman. State Library of WA.

• (2022) Scribblers Festival. Children's poetry & art workshop with Rebecca M Newman and Cindy Lane at Subiaco Arts Centre, Western Australia.

 

Awards & Honors

  • (2023) 2023 recipient of the  SCBWI WA Louise Schofield Award for Services to Children’s Literature
  • (2021) First place in the Toolangi CJ Dennis Poetry competition (children's choice category) for a poem 'Magpie Season'. 
  • (2021) Second place in the  Toolangi CJ Dennis Poetry competition (adults writing for children category, judged by adults) for a poem 'Magpie Season'.
  • (2021) Shortlisted for a flash fiction story 'Poetry', in the Love to Read Local Flash Fiction Competition (run by Writing WA, Night Parrot Press & Raine Square).
  • (2020) Shortlisted for a flash fiction story ‘Fish’, in Writing WA's Flashing the Cover flash fiction competition
  • (2019) Recipient of a Paper Bird Fellowship (Writer-in-Residence) at Paper Bird Books, Fremantle, Western Australia
  • (2019) Second place in Jacking Hosking’s Rhyming Poetry Competition for a poem ‘Bubble Wrap Stomp’
  • (2011) Shortlisted for the Picture Book: Preschool category in the 2011 CYA Writers & Illustrators Conference competition for manuscript Lizzie Blueboots

Interviews and Media

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