Robyn Sheahan-Bright
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}
{{short description|Australian author, editor and publisher}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| nationality = Australian
| alma_mater = Griffith University
| occupation = Author, Editor, Publisher
| known_for = Children's Literature
}}
Robyn Marie Sheahan-Bright {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} is an Australian author, editor and publisher of, and on, children's literature and publishing itself.{{cite news|last1=Tung|first1=Caroline|title=Families Foster Lifelong Reading|url=https://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/news/families-foster-lifelong-reading/3208553/|accessdate=7 January 2018|publisher=The Observer|date=4 August 2017}}
Career
Based in Queensland Sheahan-Bright co-founded Jam Roll Press with Leonie Tyler and Robyn Collins in 1988 to publish children's picture books and young adult fiction. It was later sold to University of Queensland Press in 1994.{{cite web|title=Jam Roll Press|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A39461|website=AustLit|publisher=The University of Queensland|accessdate=7 January 2018}}
Sheahan-Bright was the inaugural Executive Director of the Queensland Writers Centre (1991–1997).{{cite web|title=Robyn Sheahan-Bright|url=https://www.speakers-ink.com.au/speakers/robyn-sheahan-bright|website=Speakers Ink|accessdate=7 January 2018}}
Sheahan-Bright received a PhD from Griffith University in 2005 for her thesis, "To Market to Market: The Development of the Australian Children's Publishing Industry".{{cite web|title=To Market to Market: The Development of the Australian Children's Publishing Industry|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/3758509|website=Trove Books, National Library of Australia|accessdate=7 January 2018}}
Sheahan-Bright chaired the judging panel Children's Fiction and Young Adult Fiction for the 2010 and 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.{{cite web|title=Past Judges, Prime Minister's Literary Awards|url=https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards/about-awards/past-judges|website=Dept of Communications & the Arts|accessdate=7 January 2018}}
Since 2017 she has been a board member of the Australian Children's Literature Alliance (founded in 2008) which selects and appoints an annual Australian Children's Laureate.{{cite web|title=The Inaugural Australian Children's Laureate|url=http://www.childrenslaureate.org.au/news-article/the-inaugural-australian-childrens-laureate-by-robyn-sheahan-bright-magpies-magazine-volume-28/|website=Australian Children's Laureate|accessdate=7 January 2018}} In 2018 she was elected president of IBBY Australia.{{Cite web |date=2010-04-14 |title=About |url=https://ibbyaustralia.wordpress.com/about/ |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=IBBY Australia |language=en}}
Awards and recognition
- 2011 Dame Annabelle Rankin Award for Distinguished Services to Children's Literature, Qld Branch of Children's Book Council of Australia{{cite web|title=Dame Annabelle Rankin Award for Distinguished Services for Children's Literature in Queensland|url=https://qld.cbca.org.au/dame-annabelle-rankin-award|website=The Children's Book Council of Australia|accessdate=7 January 2018}}
- 2012 Nan Chauncy Award for her outstanding contribution to the field of Australian children's literature{{cite web|title=Other CBCA Awards – The Nan Chauncy Award|url=https://cbca.org.au/other-cbca-awards|website=The Children's Book Council of Australia|accessdate=7 January 2018}}
- 2014 recipient of the Johnno Award for her contribution to Queensland Writing.{{cite news|last1=Dale|first1=Madelaine|title=Robyn Sheahan-Bright Wins 2014 Johnno Award|url=http://www.thecreativeissue.com.au/robyn-sheahan-bright-wins-2014-johnno-award/|accessdate=7 January 2018|publisher=The Creative Issue|date=28 December 2014}}
- 2021 Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to children's literature, and to the promotion of reading"{{cite web |title=Dr Robyn Marie SHEAHAN-BRIGHT |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2007777 |website=It's An Honour |access-date=2021-01-25}}
Publications
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- Nightmares in Paradise : A Collection of Short Stories, University of Queensland Press, 1995, {{ISBN|9780702227059}}
- Paradise to Paranoia, co-written with Nigel Krauth, University of Queensland Press, 1995, {{ISBN|9780702227851}}
- Original Sin, (collection of young adult short stories), compiler/editor, University of Queensland Press, 1996, {{ISBN|0702228761}}
- Hot Iron Corrugated Sky: 100 years of Queensland writing, co-edited with Stuart Glover, University of Queensland Press, 2002, {{ISBN|0702233447}}
- Paper Empires: A history of the book in Australia 1946–2005, also titled A history of the book in Australia, co-written with Craig Munro, University of Queensland Press, 2006, {{ISBN|9780702235733}}
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