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My name is Philippa Werry and I write for children and young people. I write fiction,
non-fiction, stories, poems, plays, and newspaper & magazine articles.
In this website you can find out more about my books.
You can find out more about my other writing. You might have acted out one of my plays from the School Journal or Readers' Theater. Maybe you've come across my stories or poems in anthologies, or learnt something you didn't know from one of my articles.
You can read about how I became a writer.
In the activities page, you can check out my five top writing tips, take a quiz on my writing and see how many of my favourite books you've read.
If you want to know more about my writing, or tell me about something you've discovered on this site, send me an email. I'd love to hear from you.
Don't forget to make a booking for me to come to your school.
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What I'm reading
The graveyard book by Neil Gaiman
This book was published with two different covers (for adults and children) and it's loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's The jungle book, about a boy who is brought up by animals. Nobody Owens (Bod for short) grows up in a graveyard and is brought up by the ghosts, spectres and dead people who dwell there.
I wasn't lucky enough to hear Neil Gaiman 
when he was in Wellington for Writers and Readers Week, but if you want to know more about him, look at his website.
News & Events
July 2010A few weeks ago, I was very excited to get a phone call telling me I had been shortlisted for the 2010 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing. This is an annual prize awarded to an outstanding unpublished manuscript by an Australian or New Zealand writer. You can read more about the prize, and other four shortlisted authors.
It's a big thrill to be shortlisted for an award like this, even if you don't win. Sometimes you have to wait on tenterhooks for a long time to find out – but fortunately this time the wait wasn't too long. Congratulations to Jane Higgins, the winner (and another New Zealand writer.)