For all bookings please contact Becky’s Literary Bookings.
We had the privilege of hearing Alys speak at our reading hour today in the Barr Smith Library at University of Adelaide and what a wonderful experience it was. Alys is a born speaker and I could have listened to her all day. I’ll certainly be looking out for her books and for my young granddaughter’s budding library too! What a wonderful childhood she had and she shared so many stories with us … well done Alys 😊 Margaret Galbraith, Barr Smith Library.
August 2021
Words and Nerds Podcast – with Dani Vee and Coral Vass. Words and Nerds Podcast is an entertaining and conversational podcast that aims to get inside a writer’s mind.
How to Write a Picture Book: Filming a Virtual School Holiday Workshop/University of Adelaide.
July 2021
SCBWI Speed Launch of Hugo’s Runaway Legs – launched by Kristin Martin.
Children’s University book workshop at Renmark Library – I was unable to attend for to personal reasons
Radio ABC Riverland interview with Matt Stephens.
June 2021
Children’s workshop and book reading of Hugo’s Runaway Legs at CU Saturday – Children’s University workshops held on the campus of the University of Adelaide.
May 2021
Before you Were Born by Katrina Germaine – Book Launch at Shakespeare’s Bookshop, Blackwood
April 2021
How to Build a House by Mike Lucas – Book Launch at Shakespeare’s Bookshop, Blackwood
Picture Book Writing Workshop, Kingscote Library, Kangaroo Island
Storytelling and Children’s University activities, Kingscote Library, Kangaroo Island
March 2021
Australian Space Discovery Centre VIP opening, Adelaide.
Book Signing at Shakespeare’s Bookshop, Blackwood.
February 2021
HUGO’S RUNAWAY LEGS BY Alys Jackson – released on 1st February 2021.
LAUNCH of Kaleidoscope, Box Factory, Adelaide. Friendly Street Poets anthology 44. Poems included.
Kylie Covark and Andrew Plant: Attended Book Launch of Float or Sink (Ford St Publishing).
November 2020
Guluwatu Writers Retreat.
October 2020
Author visit and Book Week workshop: Flinders View Primary School
SCBWI SA event – Professional Day.
September 2020
Book launch – Mike Lucas launched Bad Herbert (Larrikin House) at Shakespeare’s Books, Blackwood.
June 2020 – August 2020
Writers Retreat – Gooluwatu
Read, A Dark Kind of Living, on The Listening Place, 4th June, 2020.
Time for reflection and editing during COVID 19. I completed my Middle Grade novel; Myth.
May 2020
SCBWI Sketch and Scribble – Virtual workshops on writing Haiga and Haiku poetry with Julia Wakefield-Houghton.
Virtual Launch of Griffith Review 68, Getting On, May 12th.
April 2020
Virtual Launch of Thrill Me, Saturday 4th April.
March 2020
New Poets 20 Event – guest poet at the Artisan Cafe, Blackwood. Cancelled due to COVID.
Hills Poetry Reading – Aldgate. Guest Poet.
February 2020
Poetry Event – February 22nd 2pm – 4pm at Once and Again Book Cafe, Adelaide. Book Tickets HERE.
Well Versed 2: Attended the launch of Well Versed 2 at PBA-FM 89.7
December 2019
Author visit and workshop – Hamra Centre Library, Sunroom, 1 Brooker Terrace, Hilton.
Author visit and workshops – Coromandel Valley Primary School, Adelaide.
SPIN – Southern Performers Interactive Network – poetry reading. Poetry, stories, music and wine.
November 2019
SCBWI SA Christmas Dinner, Adelaide.
Well Versed, Podcast – PBA FM radio, Adelaide.
LAUNCH of New Poets 20, 25th November – Box Factory, Adelaide.
SPIN – Southern Performers Interactive Network – poetry reading. Poetry, stories, music and wine.
October 2019
Andrew Joyner – book launch at Shakespeare’s Books, Blackwood.
SCBWI SA event – Professional Day, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide.
Friendly Street Poets – poetry reading.
Children’s University Event: Storytelling and Activities: Len Beadel Library, Salisbury. 8th October, 10:30am – 11:30am. Register here.
Children’s University Event: Storytelling and Activities: Stretton Centre Library. 8th October, 1pm – 2pm. Register here.
September 2019 
Children’s University Event – Storytelling and Activities: Mon, Sept 30th: 11am –
12pm. Register here.
22nd September – LAUNCH of The Land Belongs to Me, Mitcham Library. Illustrated by Shane McGrath: Big Sky Publishing
Author visit and workshops – Fulham North Primary School, Adelaide
Author visit and workshops – Coromandel Valley Primary School, Adelaide
19th September: Guest Author for Australian Reading Hour event, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide. Click on the link above to make a free booking.
Friendly Street Poets – poetry reading.
August 2019
The Land Belongs to Me is released by Big Sky Publishing
SPIN – Southern Performers Interactive Network – poetry reading. Poetry, stories, music and wine.
Beverly McWilliams and Timothy Ide: Attended Book Launch of Born to Fly.
Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA)- SA Branch Dinner
Debra Abela Book Launch of third book in the Grimsdon Series, Final Storm at Shakespeare’s Books.
FSP – my debut poetry manuscript, Wolf Ghosts, chosen to be published in New Poets 20 with Julia Wakefield Houghton and Sharon Foulkes.
July 2019
Writers Retreat – Gooluwatu
Kristin Martin, poetry workshop, Coventry Library, Stirling
South Australian Society of Children’s Book Authors and Illustrator’s Winter Retreat, Stirling
I am Wolf published in Orbit, Australia
Book launch of Joey and Riley by author/illustrator Mandy Foot, Stirling Library, Adelaide
Book launch of Sensitive, by Allayne L Webster, UQP – Greenlight Comics, Adelaide with Dan McGuiness
Hosted Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
June 2019
South Australian Society of Children’s Book Authors and Illustrator’s – Meet and Greet, Adelaide
The Utter Absence of Everything long listed in the Wigleaf 50 Best Short Fiction of 2019
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills –
May 2019
Book launch of Chandani and the Ghost of the Forest by Roseanne Hawke and Lenore Penner with Mandy Foot.
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
April 2019
Attended a workshop: How to Write a History, Longwood Institute, presented by author Danielle Clode.
SCBWI Dinner – speaker Sue Whiting, The British Hotel, Adelaide
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
March 2019
Adelaide Festival Fringe Event: The Final Draft – 10 Years of Ja Pisem – performed short stories and poetry as part of a festival event at Ekhidna Winery
Book launch of To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme by Kristin Martin, poet and author. Launched by Janeen Brian.
Finding George published in Touchdown, Australia
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
February 2019
Rehearsal of Final Draft – Adelaide Fringe Festival event
Finding the Magic long-listed in the Buzz Words Short Story Prize, 2019
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
January 2019
Book launch of The Great Billy Cart Grand Prix, illustrated by Lauren Mullinder and written by Michael Johnston, Adelaide
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
December 2018
Workshop – Coordinated running of Growing Edible Produce: speaker Pauline Woodward (preserving produce), Adelaide
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
November 2018
Book launch of Vanishing by Mike Lucas, MidnightSun Publishing, Adelaide
Workshop: introduced speaker, Mel Marsh, Growing Edible Produce, Adelaide
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
October 2018
Attended Quart Shorts, Literary Readings, Adelaide
Workshop: introduced speakers’ Harald Ehmann and Hellen Coleman: Growing Edible Produce, Adelaide
The New Kid published in Orbit, Australia
SCBWI SA Professional Day, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide. Wrote the BLOG Post.
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
September 2018
Workshop: introduced speaker, Malcolm Campbell, ABC Gardening Presenter: Growing Edible Produce, Adelaide
Jake’s New Family published in Touchdown, Australia
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
August 2018
Workshop: introduced speaker Diane Bickford, Bickleighvale Farm: Growing Edible Produce, Adelaide
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
July 2018
Co-presented Writing for Magazines with Kristin Martin: South Australian Society of Children’s Book Authors and Illustrator’s Winter Retreat, Stirling
Workshop: Introduced Sophie Thomson, ABC Gardening Presenter: Growing Edible Produce, Adelaide
Annie and the Shipwreck published in Blast Off, Australia
Second Chances published in Touchdown, Australia
Onkaparinga Grants Award Ceremony: received grant on behalf of Garden Grub Community Food Swap
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
The Green Sash published by Orbit, Australia
Book launch of Sebastian and the Special Stack of Stories by Kelly Hibbert, HarperCollins Australia, – in Adelaide
June 2018
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
May 2018
SCBWI SA Midyear Dinner with author, Kathryn Apel, Adelaide
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
April 2018
Book Launch of The Extremely Weird Thing That Happened at Huggabie Falls by Adam Cece, Stirling
The Very Last Jar – part 2, AQUILA, UK
Short story, Survivors of the Night, Quart Shorts performed at , Literary Readings
Read by Claire Glenn
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
March 2018
The Utter Absence of Everything published by Jellyfish Review
Hollow Bones published by Storgy Magazine
The Very Last Jar – part 1, AQUILA, UK
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
February 2018
SCBWI SA – Meet and Greet event, Tower Hotel, Magill SA
The Notebook Thief published in Touchdown, Australia
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
January 2018
Unexploded published by Flash Fiction Magazine
Coordinated Garden Grub, Community Food Swap, Adelaide Hills
Tilted Winter published by The Wild Word
Red Sky at Night published in Caterpillar Magazine, Ireland
2017
Attended Awards Presentation – Henry Lawson Festival of Arts, June 2017. Recipient of Harold Goodwin Short Story Award and Statuette for Prose and Poetry – presented by Tara Moss.
Momo and Hana, published in Orbit Magazine, Australia
Water for Everyone published in Orbit Magazine, Australia
Polite Racism published in Right Now Magazine
You Can Lead a Horse to Water published in Caterpillar Magazine, Ireland
Isaac and the Australian published in Orbit Magazine, Australia
Attended Australian Short Story Festival, UniSA
Book Launch of Plane Tree Drive Lynette Washington ( Highly Commended in the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award)
Synopsis and Pitching Workshop with Victoria Purman, Writers SA
Attended Salisbury Writers Festival