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Dr Helen Edwards, Psych PhD, Australian Author & Speaker
@drhelenedwards.bsky.social
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Award-winning Australian Author on Kaurna Land.
🪶SA Literary Fellow 2025
✨️The Rebels of Mount Buffalo✨️Legend of The Lighthouse Moon✨️On Gallant Wings ✨️The Disappearing Circus 7/25 with Kate Gordon
🪶Nature, Magic & History
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Dr Helen Edwards, Psych PhD, Australian Author & Speaker @drhelenedwards.bsky.social · Apr 8
On Gallant Wings has arrived.
A sweeping WWII adventure about family, courage and knowing when to break the rules that shines a light on many little-known aspects of the war's impact on Australians at home.
Available in all good bookshops in your town and online.
It's time soar 🕊
#Authors #Books
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#Canberra I'm coming to your gorgeous city in June for a DOUBLE book launch at The Book Cow! Tickets free but bookings essential below. I'll be launching On Gallant Wings and a special pre-release launch of The Disappearing Circus co-written with Kate Gordon.

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RESCHEDULED - Double Book Launch Author Event: On Gallant Wings by Helen Edwards AND The Disappearing Circus, co-written with Kate Gordon
Join author Helen Edwards for her latest book releases, On Gallant Wings and The Disappearing Circus
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April 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
drhelenedwards.bsky.social
Looking forward to joining family & friends this afternoon at The Gums Tranmere to celebrate the launch of On Gallant Wings. Drop-in between 2-4pm. I'll be doing a reading & talk around 2.30 if you would like to hear that. Don't forget your chair, or picnic blanket. Books for sale! #Adelaide
Helen wears a black and white cardigan. She's smiling and looking at the camera as she signs a book. A soft toy pigeon watches her.
April 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Thanks to Your Kid's Next Read & @altait.bsky.social for this fabulous interview about On Gallant Wings, the history behind it, how I juggle research with story, pigeon voices, character development & more!!
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#AustralianAuthors #Australianbooks #Writing
Episode 197: 10 minutes with Helen Edwards - Your Kid's Next Read Podcast
Helen Edwards chats to Allison about her latest middle-grade historical fiction novel 'On Gallant Wings', plus Megan has library tips
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April 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Wonderful day across #Adelaide signing copies of On Gallant Wings at Dymocks Hyde Park, Mostly Books, Shakespeares bookshop & Matilda Bookshop. Bumped into gorgeous Sam Ellen Bound signing copies of her stunning new book in Mostly Books! Thank you booksellers 🙏 #Australianbooks #AustralianAuthors
April 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Here are signed copies of my book #Septopus in Abbey's bookshop in Sydney CBD. The story of a 7-legged octopus - waiting to be read by someone. 8-12 year olds will particularly love it but really - a story for everyone! family, friends, action, sports, fun!
Signed copy of Septopus by Rebecca Fung illustrated by Kathy Creamer on shelf in Abbey's bookshop, Sydney CBD
December 1, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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Come with me on my outing to sign copies of On Gallant Wings in two of my favourite local #Adelaide bookshops Dillons on The Parade & Dymocks Rundle Mall. Signed copies of both Legends of the Lighthouse Moon and On Gallant Wings now available at both shops.
#Australianbooks #AustralianAuthors
April 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Thanks for the shelfie Rachel Jackson On Gallant Wings in the wild at Sydney airport! Hopefully they'll fly off the shelves 🤣

#AustralianAuthors #Australianbooks ##LoveozKidLit #OzKidLit #loveozmg #WW11 #WWIIAustralia
April 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
drhelenedwards.bsky.social
On Gallant Wings has arrived.
A sweeping WWII adventure about family, courage and knowing when to break the rules that shines a light on many little-known aspects of the war's impact on Australians at home.
Available in all good bookshops in your town and online.
It's time soar 🕊
#Authors #Books
April 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Legend of the Lighthouse Moon has come in FIRST place in the Forevability awards Category two, with the amazing Tania Ingram and Kate Buffay Jr. in second and third places! What a list to be on. I am very grateful to everyone at Forevability for creating these awards to champion diverse books
April 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Legend of the Lighthouse Moon @drhelenedwards.bsky.social - is a middlegrade historical tale that blends mystery and magic, set at a lighthouse. I love the sea atmosphere and the warmth that pervades the book - a beautiful sense of family while exploring the magical environment.
Legend of the Lighthouse Moon by Dr Helen Edwards
April 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
drhelenedwards.bsky.social
So nice to discover Legend of the Lighthouse Moon is a book marked with a 'We Love' sticker on the Harry Hartog website this afternoon when planning my bookshop visits in Canberra 🙏❤️
#KangarooIsland #SealBay #CapeWilloughby #SeaLions #selkies #oceanconservation #type1diabetes
March 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Tropical #Cyclone #Alfred - #Animals #AnimalRescue
#wildlife (koalas, marine life, gliders, birds)

If you find injured or orphaned wildlife, please call WIRES immediately at 1300 094 737 for assistance.

WIRES Emergency Wildlife Advice > www.wires.org.au/blog/tropica...

#cyclonealfred
Tropical Cyclone Alfred – Emergency Wildlife Advice - Wildlife Blog - WIRES
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March 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Expect more of this: Australian publisher Black Ink Books tries to rush authors into signing a contract addendum that allows generative AI to train on their works www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements
Authors were asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’
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March 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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It's so weird that we've sort of forgotten this but there was like, maybe a 3-4 year period where climate deniers and 'lukewarmists' insisted that warming had 'paused', ended up just being flat-out and incredibly wrong about it, and then just go to move on

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a chart showing the warming 'pause'
March 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Law Way®: Safeguarding Stories – Protecting Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Publishing Process

Register here: events.humanitix.com/lawway_publi...

#mobsky #authors #writing #publishing
Law Way®: Safeguarding Stories – Protecting ICIP in the Publishing Process
Get tickets on Humanitix - Law Way®: Safeguarding Stories – Protecting ICIP in the Publishing Process hosted by Terri Janke and Company. Online. Friday 30th May 2025. Find event information.
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March 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Black Inc. AI licensing – what authors need to know with thanks to the Australian Society of Authors

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Black Inc. AI licensing - what authors need to know - Australian Society of Authors
The ASA has heard from concerned writers about a sublicence arrangement that would allow Black Inc. to license their work for AI training.
www.asauthors.org.au
March 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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On Gallant Wings includes censored letters which show handwriting from the 1940's. Where deemed necessary sections of letters were blacked out or had pieces cut from them. I'm sharing the full letters over coming weeks. Here's the first two www.helenedwardswrites.com/on-gallant-w...
#Kidlit #WWII
March 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Two lovely-looking reads by @drhelenedwards.bsky.social arrived today! I look forward to exploring them both. On Gallant Wings and Legend of the Lighthouse Moon.
March 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Looking forward to presenting at the National Education Summit Diverse Learners Symposium in #Melbourne on 28th August

#DiverseBooks #OwnVoices #Australianbooks #AustralianSchools #neurodiversity
February 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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🌟MY BOOK IS OUT, MY BOOK IS OUT🌟
Grinning like a loon here 😄 ALL SHALL MOURN is out in the world.
This book that was orphaned by my publisher, then supported by readers so much that I released it myself...It's finally arrived 😊
Hope you dig it🖤
linktr.ee/allshallmour...
A large closeup of the purple cover of ALL SHALL MOURN by Ellie Marney, the third book in the None Shall Sleep series - on the cover, a skull rests in a bed of marigold flowers below the black title which drips with red blood.
February 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Are you an Australian YA writer under 25?

Enter The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers for the chance to win $1000, a 20-hour mentorship to develop your manuscript, and a professional development package worth $200!

stephboweprize.com

#LoveOzYA
A violet square with white text in the middle that says ‘Enter The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers for the chance to win $1000, a 20-hour mentorship to develop your manuscript, and a professional development package worth $200! stephboweprize.com’. There are illustrations of yellow, white, bright blue and bright purple books around the edges. The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers logo is in the corner.
February 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Sitting at Lake Boga as the sun comes up, reading the final manuscript of On Gallant Wings...it's a surreal feeling to be here, where a large part of Ava’s story takes place, immersed within her world...

Tonight, I'll speaking beneath the wings of a Catalina Flying Boat. Very grateful for this life
January 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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On Gallant Wings Launch Events in Canberra and Lake Boga www.helenedwardswrites.com/on-gallant-w...
On Gallant Wings Launch Events - Dr Helen Edwards Writes
On Gallant Wings will officially be launched in Canberra at The Book Cow on 29th March and in Lake Boga at the Catalina Flying Boat Museum on Anzac day! I will be holding a more intimate gathering in ...
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January 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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So you fuckers don't want your taxes to go towards school children who don't get to have lunch, but you don't mind that same money going to billionaires for their lobster and prawns. FRO!!!!! 😡
ericbanana.bsky.social Eric Bananarama @ericbanana.bsky.social · Jan 22
It should go without saying that this is appalling public policy.

Of all the things small businesses can spend money on, business lunches are the least likely to improve productivity or business viability.

Any Australian Govt would be better giving school kids free lunch than this BS.

#auspol
Dutton may think voters no longer care about good government. But there’s no such thing as a ‘free lunch’ | John Quiggin
Australian politics has become a vehicle for personal enrichment in a way that would have been considered shocking last century
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January 22, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Karrak
Calyptorhynchus banksii naso
Forest red-tailed black cockatoo
SW Western Australia
Around 15,000 birds, considered 'Vulnerable' in Western Australia

Feeding on cape lilac berries in parkland, Menora, Perth, WA - sound on! (better for the 2nd video 😬)
January 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM