Allayne L. Webster Allayne L. Webster i(A108942 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Allayne grew up in the coastal fishing town of Kingston SE, South Australia. She now lives in Adelaide with her husband and teenage son. She's the proud recipient of three SA Arts Grants and a Board Member of the Salisbury Writers' Festival. She also helped to establish the Women's Professional Development Network Book Club at the University of Adelaide.

Allayne is stepsister to Amanda S. Clarke.

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y separately published work icon Selfie Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2023 25548344 2023 single work novel young adult 'Dene Walker picked me to be her best friend. She had the whole of Tonsley High's year eight to choose from-and she chose me. Me! Tully can't believe her luck. Dene is famous. Everyone loves her. She has thousands of followers online and hundreds of sponsorship deals. Being best friends with Dene Walker is a dream come true. Tully is soon hardly aware that her long-time bestie, Kira, exists, as she shapes her own interests and cares to be the person worthy of Dene's attention. And she's not prepared for the heartache and confusion when Dene's friendship is not all she imagined it to be. Selfie is an engaging and very real exploration of social media and the trickiness of separating what's real from the glossiness of the online world. It's a tender story about friendship and staying true to yourself.' 

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2023 shortlisted Children's Peace Literature Award
2024 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
y separately published work icon Sensitive St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2019 15643969 2019 single work children's fiction children's

'When thirteen-year-old Samantha moves to a new town, she decides to reinvent herself. She wants to be called SJ now. She's going to be cool and mysterious. But above all, she's going to pretend to be healthy.

'SJ suffers from chronic eczema and allergies - she's sick of doctors' appointments and tests, sick of itchiness and pain, sick of looking different, feeling different. All SJ wants is to be 'normal'. She'll do whatever it takes to keep her illness a secret. After all, would new friend Livvy or cute boy Sam still want to hang out with her if they knew the truth?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2020 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Eight to 10 Years
y separately published work icon The Centre of My Everything Sydney : Penguin Random House Australia , 2018 12959735 2018 single work novel young adult

'Justin's back, and wants to put the past behind him.

'Corey's a footy hero and high-school dropout who can't even find work picking fruit.

'Tara wants to be loved. But if her mother doesn't care, why would anyone else?

'Margo wants out, and she has a plan to get there.

'Plans change. Life happens. Some secrets won't stay buried. Peace isn't as simple as laying bones to rest.

'A story about love and loss. About tragic secrets and the lengths people will go to hide them. About intergenerational pain and desperate attempts to break the cycle. And about yearning for love and finding it where you least expect. ' (Publication summary)
 
2020 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Young Adult Fiction
2019 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Young Adult Book
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