Allayne L. WebsterAllayne L. Webster is an internationally published children's and young adult author. She also plays guitar/sings and sometimes she illustrates. She is the proud recipient of three arts grants and a South Australian Premier's Reading Challenge Ambassdor. She has served on literary festival boards and her novels have been listed for various awards.

Paper Planes (Scholastic) was a 2016 CBCA Notable, shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards, and has recently been included in the Australian Heritage Literary Project Untapped Collection. A Cardboard Palace (MidnightSun Publishing) was a 2018 CBCA Notable, published in Sweden. Our Little Secret (Scholastic) was listed for the Golden Inkys, and The Centre of My Everything (Penguin RandomHouse) was listed in the 2019 Davitt Awards and shortlisted in the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards. Sensitive (University of Queensland Press) is published in Russia and was shortlisted in the 2020 Australian Speech Pathology Awards.

That Thing I Did - Young Adult Fiction (YA) (Wakefield Press) is Allayne's ninth publication. Read More Read Less