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Certificate Of Short Story Writing: Holmesglen College of Tafe, 1995

Diploma of Arts: Professional Writing and Editing, 2000

BSZ40198 Certificate IV in Assessment & Workplace Training, 2004

TEACHING

Community Based VCAL Program
Numeracy & Literacy Tutor, 2004

Developing and delivering numeracy and literacy program to CBVCAL students at Seymour, Victoria. Covering writing, reading, numeracy, oracy and general curriculum.

Wallan Primary School
Author Mentor Program, 1997-2003

Coordinating and teaching: a creative writing competition and workshops to develop children’s stories and creative writing talents. Stories published annually as anthologies, picture books or calendars and publicly launched. Students from this program have been awarded significant prizes at shows and in writing competitions, including Imagination Creation and Nestle Write around Australia.

Author visits by request

Bernadette often visits schools, both secondary and primary. Her programs are tailored to meet teacher’s requirements

PUBLISHED CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Pearson Education:

Cartwheeling Carlie (fiction)
Special Talent (fiction, also featured in audio set)
Bugs Away! (fiction)
Puppy Puzzle (fiction)
Long Jump (early maths)
Gold Dust (compilation)
Mind Games (thinking games)

Horwitz Martin:

Weather Works (non-fiction)
In Flight (non-fiction)
Nature's Wonders (non-fiction)

Nelson Thomson:

Encyclopedia Of Dangerous Animals (non-fiction)
Country Vet (non-fiction)
Saving My Sister (fiction)
Rules Rule (fiction)
Crazy Cuisine (fiction)
Hamid's Heroes (fiction)

Black Dog Books:

Riding High series (fiction)
If Wishes Were Horses
Making The Grade
Leap of Faith
Team Challenge
Heads or Tails?
Balancing Act
Making Waves
Pony Trek

Pony Patch series (fiction)
Naughty Norton
Losing Norton
Norton Saves the Day
Norton’s Blue Ribbon

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Weekly Times

'Trotting a Path to Adulthood' Personal recount, 1995

Hume City Gazette

A series of information articles and interviews for AUSTSWIM, 1996.

Herald Sun

"Women Get The Big Push" Opinion piece, 1998

Stage Whispers Performing Arts Magazine

Contributor - interviews and reviews, 1997-2003

IB World

Feature article for IB World, Geneva, 2000

Together Alone: Poems and Stories for Daffodil Day

'War Hero' (Edited by John Clarke), Text Publishing

WRITING COMPETITIONS

Shortlist judge:

Glen Eira Literary Awards, 1999-2000

Judge:

Beveridge festival young writer's short story competition, 2003

PUBLISHING & EDITING

Freelance editing:
Masters theses, business reports and health industry reports

Black Dog Books:
Editing non-fiction and fiction text for the children's educational market

Australian Book Review:
Proofreading and copyediting for Melbourne based literary magazine

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