About Me

The Short Version:

Emily Gale has worked in the children’s book industry for 25 years in various roles: in-house editor, consultant to a literary agent, children’s book buyer, award judge, reviewer, freelance manuscript assessor, and as a writer-in-residence in a high school library. Emily’s writing includes the Young Adult novels Girl, Aloud (2009), Steal My Sunshine (2013) and I Am Out With Lanterns (2018). For late primary/early high school readers she has written The Other Side of Summer (2016; a companion novel to I Am Out With Lanterns) and Aussie Stem Stars: Gisela Kaplan (2021). She wrote Eliza Boom’s Diary books 1 & 2 in 2014, for younger readers. Her latest novels are Elsewhere Girls (2021), with Nova Weetman, and The Goodbye Year (2022).

A video series produced with Nova Weetman, consisting of 10x 10-minute videos on all aspects of creative writing, is available for purchase. This is aimed at students aged (roughly) 9-14. Website: www.emilyandnova.com 

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