Steph Bowe Steph Bowe i(A129912 works by)
Born: Established: 1994 Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: Jan 2020
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Steph Bowe was a judge for the 2009 Inky Awards, and subsequently published three young-adult novels: Girl Saves Boy (2010), All This Could End (2013), and Night Swimming (2017), all with Text Publishing. Originally based in Queensland, by 2018, she was dividing her time between Melbourne and the Gold Coast.

Bowe was a Stella Schools Ambassador for Queensland and the 2016 Mary Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Fellow.

Bowe was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic lymphoma in April 2019, and died in January 2020.

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y separately published work icon Night Swimming Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2017 10605094 2017 single work novel young adult

'Steph Bowe is back. Night Swimming is a love story with a twist, and a whole lot of heart.

'Imagine being the only two seventeen-year-olds in a small town. That’s life for Kirby Arrow—named after the most dissenting judge in Australia’s history—and her best friend Clancy Lee, would-be musical star.

'Clancy wants nothing more than to leave town and head for the big smoke, but Kirby is worried: her family has a history of leaving. She hasn’t heard from her father since he left when she was a baby. Shouldn’t she stay to help her mother with the goat’s-milk soap-making business, look after her grandfather who suffers from dementia, be an apprentice carpenter to old Mr Pool? And how could she leave her pet goat, Stanley, her dog Maude, and her cat Marianne?

'But two things happen that change everything for Kirby. She finds an article in the newspaper about her father, and Iris arrives in town. Iris is beautiful, wears crazy clothes, plays the mandolin, and seems perfect, really, thinks Kirby. Clancy has his heart set on winning over Iris. Trouble is Kirby is also falling in love with Iris…' (Publication summary)

2018 longlisted Davitt Award Best Young Adult Book
2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
y separately published work icon All This Could End Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2013 Z1908622 2013 single work novel young adult

'What's the craziest thing your mum has asked you to do?

'Nina doesn't have a conventional family. Her family robs banks—even she and her twelve-year-old brother Tom are in on the act now. Sophia, Nina's mother, keeps chasing the thrill: 'Anyway, their money's insured!' she says.

'After yet another move and another new school, Nina is fed up and wants things to change. This time she's made a friend she's determined to keep: Spencer loves weird words and will talk to her about almost anything. His mother has just left home with a man who looks like a body-builder vampire, and his father and sister have stopped talking.

'Spencer and Nina both need each other as their families fall apart, but Nina is on the run and doesn't know if she will ever see Spencer again. Steph Bowe, author of Girl Saves Boy, once again explores the hearts and minds of teenagers in a novel full of drama, laughter and characters with strange and wonderful ways.' (Publisher's blurb)

2014 longlisted Inky Awards Gold Inky
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