Sherryl Clark Sherryl Clark i(A34359 works by) (a.k.a. Sherryl Christine Clark)
Born: Established: 1956
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1978
Heritage: New Zealander
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BiographyHistory

After moving to Melbourne in 1981, poet and children's writer Sherryl Clark attended a creative writing class at the Footscray Women's Learning Centre. The Footscray writing class developed into the writing group, Western Women Writers. The group established the women's poetry magazine Poetrix (1993 - ) which Clark co-edited. After studying Arts at Deakin University, Clark worked for community writing projects, teaching writing workshops including self publishing. She was a member of Victorian Community Writers and Writing and also the Publishing Officer at Footscray Community Arts Centre. From the late 1990s Clark taught writing in the Diploma of Arts (Professional Writing and Editing) at Holmesglen TAFE and at Victoria University.

With the encouragement of Meredith Costain (q.v.) Clark began writing for children in 1996.

Source: Sherryl Clark's Website, http://www.sherrylclark.com (Sighted 26/02/2008)

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Clark coedited anthologies of women's autobiographical writing, Keeping the Home Fires Burning (1997) with Margaret Campbell and Tracey Rolfe, and In Our Time (1996) with Margaret Campbell. She also wrote books on writing, including Successful Self-Publishing (1997) and works for the children's educational series Crackers and Buzzwords
  • For information about this author's works for children not included in AustLit, see Australian Children's Books by Marcie Muir and Kerry White (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992-2004).

Personal Awards

2021 highly commended Scarlet Stiletto Awards — Best Crime Short Story for 'Death in Seventeen Syllables'.
2020 highly commended Scarlet Stiletto Awards — Best Crime Short Story for 'Delicious Leavings'.
2018 recipient May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Mad, Bad and Dead United Kingdom (UK) : Verve Books , 2022 24954789 2022 single work novel crime

'A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme's troubles aren't over yet...

'Already struggling to juggle co-running the local pub along with her new childcare responsibilities for her orphaned niece, Judi does not need her life to become any more complicated.

'Yet, as usual, complications arrive in spades: she starts receiving threatening, late-night phone calls before discovering one of her employees, Kate, shot dead.

'Judi finds herself caught up in a murder investigation, as well as the hunt for the Kate's fourteen year-old daughter, who has been missing since the murder.

'Add in the uncertainty of her relationship with Melbourne-based D.S. Heath and the fact that her estranged mother's nursing home keeps urging her to visit, and Judi might finally be at breaking point.'

Source: publisher's blurb.
2023 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
y separately published work icon Mina and the Whole Wide World St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2021 21279699 2021 single work children's fiction children's

'Mina wants her own bedroom more than anything else in the whole wide world. And it’s almost ready! Just one more lick of sunny yellow paint and it’s hers.

'But when Mina's parents take in an unexpected guest, they give her room away. At first, Mina is too upset to speak. She doesn’t care that this new kid, Azzami, needs a place to stay.

'At school, the other kids call Azzami names, and Mina wishes he’d stand up for himself. Then she sees his drawings, and for the first time really thinks about the life of the quiet boy in front of her.

'Told in candid verse, here is a story about finding friendship where you least expect it and making room for everyone across this big wide world.'

Source : publisher's blurb
2022 winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Children's Fiction
2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
y separately published work icon Dead and Gone UK : Verve Books , 2020 21186419 2020 single work novel crime

'Judi Westerholme has been through it. Brave and strong-willed, she's just about coping in her new role as foster parent to her orphaned niece, taking a job at the local pub to help make ends meet. Then the pub's landlord and Judi's friend, army veteran Pete 'Macca' Maccasfield, is murdered, and her world is suddenly turned upside down. Despite warnings from the city police to keep out of it, Judi can't help but get involved in the search for Macca's killer. But she soon becomes deeply entangled with some ruthlessly dangerous men. She must act fast and think smart to work out what they want - before anyone else gets hurt... Long buried secrets resurface in Sherryl Clark's pacey crime novel that pushes Judi Westerholme to her limits to protect the people she loves most.'

Source : publisher's blurb
2021 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
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