HEATHER GALLAGHER
Career Highlights
Other stuff...
#PBParty finalist 2022 – a competition for picture book writers where the finalist’s pitches went into a showcase for agents and editors to peruse.
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Pitch It Competition 2021 – Honourable Mention Junior Fiction, Fourth Place Picture Book
Judge for Children’s and Young Adult writer’s conference, Brisbane, Australia 2015-2020
Writer-in-residence Ardoch educational charity 2018-2024
Professional Writing and Editing Associate Degree RMIT, 2024
Five published books for children plus numerous articles in children's magazines.
Picture book Happy Pants recommended title in the Australian Family Therapists awards, 2015
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I am a professional member of the following organistions:
Bio
Heather Gallagher is a children’s author, book reviewer and award-winning journalist. She is passionate about children’s literacy and works as a writer-in-residence in disadvantaged primary schools for the educational charity, Good Shepherd, and as a Hokey-Pokey pro for Geelong libraries.
Her debut picture book, Happy Pants (Wombat Books, 2014) was a recommended title in the Australian Family Therapists awards for Children’s Literature. Her latest picture book, Scaredy Cat, is based on her anxious dog, Pip. Her debut middle grade novel My Brother, The Orangutan is forthcoming with Stag Beetle Books.
Heather is a graduate of RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing degree. She’s a professional member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Julie Hedlund’s 12 x 12 Picture Book Challenge and the US-based writing community, Inked Voices. She is also a long-term reviewer for the CBCA’s Reading Time.
Heather lives by the sea with her family and four feisty chickens.