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SHORT BIO:
Brenton Cullen is a Queensland writer, bookseller and passionate advocate for children’s literature.
He writes stories from the heart for all ages.
MEDIUM BIO:
Brenton Cullen is a Queensland writer, bookseller and passionate advocate for children’s literature. He writes stories from the heart for all ages.
He has written articles, interviewed authors and reviewed children’s books for Good Reading, CBCA Reading Time, Magpies: Talking About Books for Children and Books + Publishing.
Brenton is the recipient of the 2023 May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust’s Ian Wilson Memorial Fellowship and the winner of the 2024 Just Write for Kids Pitch It! Competition (Middle-Grade).
Visit Brenton online at brentoncullen.com and on Instagram @brenton_cullen
LONG BIO:
Brenton Cullen is a Queensland writer, bookseller and passionate advocate for children’s literature. He writes stories from the heart for all ages, with a particular love for picture books and middle-grade fiction.
Brenton wrote his first book, The Dingo with No Teeth, at the age of six, collecting wool, bark and leaves to make the collage illustrations. Inspired by a love of Jeannie Baker’s books, this early experiment sparked a lifelong desire to be an author. By the age of nine, Brenton was submitting manuscripts to publishers.
From the age of eleven, Brenton published short stories, articles and columns in anthologies and magazines. From fourteen to sixteen he wrote a weekly entertainment column for a local newspaper.
He has written articles, interviewed authors and reviewed children’s books for Good Reading, CBCA Reading Time, Magpies: Talking About Books for Children and Books + Publishing.
Brenton is the recipient of the 2023 May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust’s Ian Wilson Memorial Fellowship and the winner of the 2024 Just Write for Kids Pitch It! Competition (Middle-Grade).
He lives between the bush and the beach, with his partner, a quartet of fish named The Supremes, eight house plants, and an ever-growing picture book collection. When not writing, Brenton is walking, going to arthouse cinemas, watching sitcoms or losing track of time in second-hand bookshops.
Visit Brenton online at brentoncullen.com and on Instagram @brenton_cullen
Brenton Cullen is a Queensland writer, bookseller and passionate advocate for children’s literature.
He writes stories from the heart for all ages.
MEDIUM BIO:
Brenton Cullen is a Queensland writer, bookseller and passionate advocate for children’s literature. He writes stories from the heart for all ages.
He has written articles, interviewed authors and reviewed children’s books for Good Reading, CBCA Reading Time, Magpies: Talking About Books for Children and Books + Publishing.
Brenton is the recipient of the 2023 May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust’s Ian Wilson Memorial Fellowship and the winner of the 2024 Just Write for Kids Pitch It! Competition (Middle-Grade).
Visit Brenton online at brentoncullen.com and on Instagram @brenton_cullen
LONG BIO:
Brenton Cullen is a Queensland writer, bookseller and passionate advocate for children’s literature. He writes stories from the heart for all ages, with a particular love for picture books and middle-grade fiction.
Brenton wrote his first book, The Dingo with No Teeth, at the age of six, collecting wool, bark and leaves to make the collage illustrations. Inspired by a love of Jeannie Baker’s books, this early experiment sparked a lifelong desire to be an author. By the age of nine, Brenton was submitting manuscripts to publishers.
From the age of eleven, Brenton published short stories, articles and columns in anthologies and magazines. From fourteen to sixteen he wrote a weekly entertainment column for a local newspaper.
He has written articles, interviewed authors and reviewed children’s books for Good Reading, CBCA Reading Time, Magpies: Talking About Books for Children and Books + Publishing.
Brenton is the recipient of the 2023 May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust’s Ian Wilson Memorial Fellowship and the winner of the 2024 Just Write for Kids Pitch It! Competition (Middle-Grade).
He lives between the bush and the beach, with his partner, a quartet of fish named The Supremes, eight house plants, and an ever-growing picture book collection. When not writing, Brenton is walking, going to arthouse cinemas, watching sitcoms or losing track of time in second-hand bookshops.
Visit Brenton online at brentoncullen.com and on Instagram @brenton_cullen
