Allayne is an internationally published Children's and Young Adult author who lives in South Australia. She plays the guitar, sings, and sometimes she illustrates. Allayne is a multiple arts grant recipient and a South Australian Premier’s Reading Challenge Ambassador. She's served on literary boards, and her novels have been listed for various awards.
Paper Planes (Scholastic) was a 2016 CBCA Notable, shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and is included in the Australian Heritage Literary Project Untapped Collection. A Cardboard Palace (MidnightSun Publishing) was a 2018 CBCA Notable, published in Sweden. Our Little Secret (Scholastic) was listed for the Golden Inkys, and in 2022 a new edition was released by Ligature Press. The Centre of My Everything (Penguin RandomHouse) was listed in the 2019 Davitt Awards and shortlisted in the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Sensitive (UQP) is published in Russia, and was shortlisted in the 2020 Australian Speech Pathology Awards, and is a 2023 Outstanding Book for Young People with Disabilities - awarded by IBBY - International Board on Books for Young People. That Thing I Did was released March 2022 and has received rave reviews, including five stars in the Australian Book Review. Selfie - YA novel (Text Publishing) is out April 2023.
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This podcast episode is produced by Jen Pitch: @virtualcreatrix