The Friends of Corryong Library have been fortunate to secure some fantastic judges for this Award!

    

	Charlotte Calder Charlotte Calder was born in Adelaide and grew up in the Adelaide Hills and Darwin. She has worked as, among other things, an actor and a photographer and has written columns for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian. She is the author of four novels for young adults: Settling Storms, Cupid Painted Blind, Surviving Amber and Paper Alice, which will be published by Pan Macmillan in June 2008. A childrens' picture book, Stuck!, illustrated by Mark Jackson, is to be published next year by Walker Books. Charlotte lives with her husband and the youngest of their three children near Orange, in the Central West of NSW. She loves white cockatoos, emails, cats, dogs, horses, trips to Sydney, and most other things that distract her from getting on with her next novel.
	Dr Louise Hard Louise Hard is Head of the Murray School of Education at Charles Sturt University. In this role she manages and leads the School and teaches in both internal and distance education subjects in the Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary) and the Bachelor of Teaching (Birth to Five Years). Louise specialises in early childhood leadership, wellness and wellbeing and administration and taught an early literacy subject for many years. She lived in Corryong for over 10 years and very much enjoyed the community and environment…and believes it to be a great rural town! http://athene.riv.csu.edu.au/%7Elhard/
	Fiona Inglis Fiona Inglis grew up at The Rock, riding ponies and reading The Silver Brumby books. She graduated from Melbourne University in 1978 and began work in the publishing industry, firstly in sales and marketing and eventually in editing. She worked in London in the mid-eighties and returned to Australia where she settled in Sydney. She is now a literary agent and Managing Director of Curtis Brown (Aust) Pty Ltd, the agency which represented Elyne Mitchell during her long writing career, and now manages her Estate. Fiona is the mother of two small boys and she and her partner take them down to visit the country of her childhood as often as they can.
	Dr Noella Mackenzie Noella is a member of the academic staff of Charles Sturt University and specialises in Literacy Education. Prior to 2004 Noella worked for the NSW DET in various roles including classroom teacher and senior education officer with a particular focus on literacy development. Throughout her career Noella has worked in schools in NSW, Victoria and the ACT. She has also worked for California State University and the Canadian campus of Charles Sturt University in Ontario. Noella's current research projects focus on 'literacy' and 'reading and using' research. Noella has had articles published in Australian and international academic journals and has reviewed articles for a number of journals including the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education and The Australian Journal of Early Childhood. Noella is a recipient of the Australian College of Educators and NSW Minister for Education Quality Teaching Award in recognition of demonstrated excellence in teaching.
	Jenni Munday Jenni is on the academic staff of Charles Sturt University, teaching in the Faculty of Education in Arts and Technology.  Also on the Board of Trustees of the International Center for Women Playwrights, and locally, on the Board of Murray Arts, the regional Arts Board.  She has been a judge for the School Rock Challenge for several years in a row, as well as be a member of the planning committee for the Write Around the Murray, Writers Festival.  Her most recent piece of writing is a web essay from an interview with the author, Margaret Atwood, about her adaptation of her novel, The Penelopiad, for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Arts Centre, Canada: http://www.nac-cna.ca/en/theatre/the_penelopiad/atwood_interview.asp
	Charlotte Wood Charlotte Wood is the author of The Children, The Submerged Cathedral and Pieces of a Girl. She grew up in Cooma on the Monaro, the bare and beautiful plains at the foot of the Snowy Mountains, and lived for several years in the Central West of NSW. She now lives in Sydney but gets out of the city as often as she can - often to visit family and friends in rural NSW, Tasmania and Far North Queensland. She has been a judge of The Australian / Vogel Award and a University of Sydney short story prize, and a member of the fellowship selection panel for Australia's only national writers' centre - Varuna, the Writer's House in the Blue Mountains of NSW. Charlotte's novels have been shortlisted for several awards including the Miles Franklin and most recently, the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards for The Children. She's now at work on her fourth novel.