Manly Daily Write Up of Davidson High Creative Writing Workshop

quoted from – Manly Daily Saturday September 21st 2011 @Davidson High  Local author Alice Flanagan held a creative writers’ workshop for 60 year 7 to year 10 students at Davidson High School. The focus was to get past writer’s block and get a “rollicking good story”, Ms Flanagan said. One challenge was learning to structure a good story in an interesting, informative and fun way. The...

Teen Reads – Finding Books which Don’t Suck

Even with the many literature choices available to the teen reader today it is still often difficult to find books which don’t evoke the response ‘That book sucks!’ from our avid or not so avid teen reader. Sadly, gone are the days when the classics like Pride and Prejudice were all we needed to roll out to have our teens reading. Today things are more complex and the distractions of the non-reading type...

Articles and interviews

Press Manly Daily feature article (Sydney Northern Beaches) Village Voice, source Inner West Courier, 29th May 2007 Newcastle Star Radio Interview 2EC March 2007 Interview 2VM March 2007 Interview 2BS 9 March 2007 Interview 2EC 11 December 2006 Interview 101fm ...

Manly Daily 10 Apr 07

A C Flanagan is a Sydney based author and mother of two. Born in Newcastle, NSW she is the middle child of seven. She grew up in a era where imagination was the main source of entertainment. In the 1960s, playing makeshift games in the streets of the inner city, she and the friends she grew up with, made their own fun. In these streets the art of make believe was cultivated and her passion for storytelling...