Steven Herrick

Steven Herrick is the author of twenty-eight books for children and young adults. He has twice won the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and his books have been shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards on ten occasions. He is widely recognised as a pioneer of the verse-novel for children and young adults. In 2019, his novel by the river won the Katholischer Jugendbuchpreis, and the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany. His latest book is In times of Bushfires and Billy Buttons - a prose fiction novel for young adults.

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