Read Around Gladstone
Lance Balchin and Samantha Wheeler Regional Tour
Gladstone City Library
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 1050 minutes
Children’s authors Lance Balchin and Samantha Wheeler are heading to Gladstone in November to share their love of storytelling in a tour presented by UPLIT and Gladstone Regional Council.
The tour will include a special community event at the Gladstone Library where each author will discuss the creative process behind their writing and the unique role digital art plays in developing their characters and story world.
Lance and Samantha will also visit schools across the region, including Gladstone State Schools, Miriam Vale, Mt Larcon and schools in the Boyne Valley.
#Artist
Samantha Wheeler
Samantha Wheeler studied agriculture, worked with dairy farmers and taught science, until writing her first story for middle grade readers, inspired by koalas. Her books, which include Smooch & Rose, Mister Cassowary, Turtle Trackers, Devils in Danger and Everything I’ve Never Said, have been shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards, the Readings Children’s Book Prize, and the Wilderness Society’s Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Samantha is now completing a PhD at the University of Queensland, investigating the creative devices which might best encourage young people to care for our environment.