She’s an active author.
Karen Collum presented a speech during the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka’s M.A.D.E for Kids panel discussion as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival on August 25. The topic: how writing for children intersects with freedom, democracy and power.
“Although I write for almost the youngest audience imaginable, these concepts are very present in what I do,” says the Manifest Creative Arts Festival alumna, author of Samuel’s Kisses, Fish Don’t Need Snorkels and When I Look At You. “My vision is to share hope, to tell the truth and to empower children who live in a world where ‘no’ is a common word and where they’re told they’re too little. But in good picture books, the adults are in the background and the children are the agents of change in their own lives.”
Since the appointment, Karen’s also presented workshops at Sunbury Primary School during Book Week and spoken at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in northern New South Wales’s Adventurer and Family Camporee.
Kingdom Karen, as she called herself at the camp, has written a fourth picture book, Small And Big, which Windy Hollow Books will publish in August next year.
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