Meet Dr Helen Edwards, Award-winning Australian Author, Speaker & Psychology PhD.
Dr Helen Edwards is an award-winning Australian author and speaker who writes diverse stories of nature, magic and history. Helen has a PhD in Psychology and a long background working in mental health. Her aim is to raise hope through stories, because without hope, we have nothing.
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Helen offers author talks and workshops in schools, at libraries, festivals and more, across Australia. She has a vast background of different experiences, including founding a charity and running this award-winning organisation for 16 years. She is an advocate for type 1 diabetes, neurodiversity and ensuring all children see themselves in books.
She is an experienced speaker and has presented sessions across a range of audiences, topics and age groups. Helen has an ability to engage children and adults alike with warmth, humour and a passion for nature, history and magic.
If you're looking for a presenter who speaks from the heart, who laughs loud and loves deep, who's passionate about people and planet, and who understands we come in a glorious rainbow of human beings, Helen is your person.
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Helen's Journal
Why Connections to our Childhood Matter
A chat about why connections to our past are so important to our present and to raising our hope for the future. Featuring Black Cat and Alice in Wonderland from my childhood, as well as Who Sank the Boat by Pamela Allen from reading with my sons. Why books are so important in connections. Why…
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Helen’s Journal
Do you still visit blogs or people’s websites? I was a ‘professional’ daily blogger for many years and lots of posts from those days are still searchable on my website. I still use my own website for updates, book reviews and news, but find most of my connecting with Community ends up being via Facebook…
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Sonny & Tess by Nova Weetman
First job. First crush. But it’s complicated. It’s the end of year 7 and Tess wants a summer job. She’s keen to earn her own money and buy her own clothes. But her mum has other ideas: it looks like Tess will be stuck at home babysitting her twin brothers. Thirteen-year-old Sonny is tired of…
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On Gallant Wings Longlisted in the ARA Historical Novel Prize!
I am thrilled to announce that On Gallant Wings has been longlisted in the ARA Historical Novel Prize CYA category! This has been a long-held dream of mine! It’s an honour to be sitting beside such an incredible list of stories and authors. It’s over 20 years ago since we first discovered Lake Boga and…
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Anna’s War by DJ Taylor
Holland, 1943: In the last eighteen months of World War II, 14-year-old Anna’s life becomes a perilous world of secrets and danger. Her town in German-occupied southern Holland is transformed into a war zone , where trust is rare, and courage and resistance are everything. When the Nazis begin arresting local men and deporting them…
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Terry Fide and the Bakery Ghost by Jeanette Stampone
Ghost Detectives by Jeanette Stampone is a new three-book series of ghostly stories for junior fiction readers. The first book – Terry Fide (love the name!) and the Bakery Ghost, introduces readers to main character Terry, who is an unlikely ghost detective. He longs to be just like his dad and the other ghost hunters…
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The Disappearing Circus is Officially Launched!
It’s been a whirlwind since late June when I went to visit Canberra to launch On Gallant Wings (postponed from earlier in the year due to my illness) and to do a pre-launch peek of The Disappearing Circus at The Book Cow. While there, I also ran a workshop at the fabulous Canberra Libraries Dickson…
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Harper Wells: Renegade Timeline Officer by Bethany Loveridge
Harper Wells finally gets a room of her own, away from her annoying big brother. But on the first night in her brand-new bed, she wakes up in the past and meets a young girl named Edie. Has what Harper said to her changed the course of Australia’s history? And who does her strange time-travelling…
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