AustLit logo
Kay Kerr Kay Kerr i(17949054 works by)
Gender: Female
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

BiographyHistory

Formerly a journalist and editor of community newspapers in Brisbane, Kay Kerr was based on the Sunshine Coast and working as a freelance editor when she published her debut book, Please Don't Hug Me.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
2020-2021 shortlisted Adaptable (Queensland Writers Centre)

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Social Queue Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2021 20449877 2021 single work novel young adult

'Zoe has just finished school and started an internship at a local newspaper. Her first assignment is to write about romance, but where to begin? Zoe hasn’t been in love. She doesn’t think anyone has ever even liked her. So when her article is published and she’s contacted by a number of young men who had been interested in her in their schooldays, Zoe realises that somehow she had missed the social cues.

'Social Queue is a funny-serious own-voices story about being a young autistic woman navigating the dating scene and sorting out complex and often confusing feelings on the road to finding love.' (Publication summary)

2022 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
y separately published work icon Please Don't Hug Me Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2020 17949090 2020 single work novel young adult

'The most stressful interactions for me are ones like this, where the person’s face says one thing but their words say another. Which one am I supposed to believe? Faces seem to be more truthful, but people always act as though their words are the only things that matter.

'ERIN is looking forward to schoolies, at least she thinks she is. But her plans are going awry. She’s lost her job at Surf Shack after an incident that clearly was not her fault, and now she’s not on track to have saved enough money. Her licence test went badly, which was also not her fault: she followed the instructor’s directions perfectly. And she’s missing her brother, Rudy, who left almost a year ago. But now that she’s writing letters to him, some things are beginning to make sense.

'Kay Kerr’s Please Don’t Hug Me depicts life on the cusp of adulthood—and on the autism spectrum—and the complexities of finding out and accepting who you are and what’s important to you.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 shortlisted Ena Noël Award
2021 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
2021 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
Last amended 25 Feb 2021 10:48:27
Other mentions of "" in AustLit:
    X