Interned and War History in Australia

Fri 27 Jan 2023

Online Event

Word Play Online

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Through the experiences of two girls during World War 1, Interned investigates propaganda, prejudice and changing attitudes in society. It explores the effects of long-term incarceration in an internment camp on young people: how they deal with it and make a life for themselves. Pamela will discuss the novel’s contemporary parallels with Megan Daley.

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Content will be available to watch from May 3^rd until the end of Term 4.

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#Artists

Pamela Rushby

Pamela Rushby is the author of over 200 books for children and young adults, as well as children's TV scripts, documentaries, short stories and freelance journalism. Pam has been an advertising copywriter, pre-school teacher, and producer of educational television, audio and multimedia. She has won many awards, including the NSW Premier's Ethel Turner Prize, seven CBCA Notable Books, a Qld Writers Fellowship — and a bag of gold coins at a film festival in Iran! Pam believes the strangest, most riveting, heart-breaking, laugh-out-loud stories aren't fiction. They're real. They come from history. And she loves tripping over unusual incidents from history — and then writing about them. Her website is www.pamelarushby.com.

Megan Daley

Megan Daley is the author of the bestselling book Raising Readers (UQP, 2019) as well as Teacher, Teacher (Affirm Press, 2023) and The Beehive (Walker Books, 2024). Megan is a Teacher Librarian and early years educator and has been awarded the Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year and the Queensland Teacher Librarian of the Year, as well as the national Dromkeen Librarian’s Award. A former national vice-president of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, Megan is also a regular literary judge, a workshop presenter, the creator of the popular website Children's Books Daily and co-creator of the Your Kid's Next Read podcast.