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Terry Whitebeach Terry Whitebeach i(A30049 works by) (a.k.a. Terry Anne Whitebeach)
Also writes as: Pardalote ; Pravina
Born: Established: 1948 Tasmania, ;
Gender: Female
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Terry Whitebeach is a writer, teacher and community artist originally from Tasmania. She has lived and worked in Central Australia. Terry has taught creative writing and undergraduate literature, establishing the Indigenous Creative Writing programme at Batchelor Institute, Alice Springs, and has done research in the area of biography. She has published poetry and young adult novels and has written radio plays.

Whitebeach has also authored Women and Unemployment in Tasmania (1985), A Study of the Housing Needs of the Elderly Citizens of the Brighton Municipality (1986), Parents' Perceptions of the Educational Needs of Aboriginal Children in Tasmania (1987), and edited Some Say Hello, Some Can't See You: Stories of Tasmanian Migrants (1992). The anthology Poetry: The Second Collection (1993) by students at Jabiru Area School, Northern Territory, resulted from a visit to the school by Whitebeach while she was at the Darwin Poetry Festival.

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y separately published work icon Tyenna Tyenna : Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2021 23586017 2021 single work children's fiction children's

'An engaging and suspenseful novel about one girl's experience of the terrifying Tasmanian bushfires.

They huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm. The bush and everything she loves will be lost.

'It's the summer holidays, and Tye is staying at her grandparents' lodge at Chancy's Point in Tasmania's beautiful Central Highlands. But her plans for fun with best friend Lily and working on her pencil pine conservation project are thwarted as fire threatens the community and the bush she loves - and when Tye discovers Bailey, a runaway boy hiding out, she is torn between secretly helping him and her loyalty to her grandparents.

'As the fire comes closer and evacuation warnings abound, Tye is caught up in the battle of her life. Will she and Bailey survive? What will happen to her beloved pencil pines and the wildlife at risk? Can she and her close-knit community make a difference in a world threatened by climate change?' (Publication summary)
2023 shortlisted The Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature — Fiction
Touch 2009 single work prose
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2009 2009; (p. 207-215)
2008 Winner Jacqueline Cooke Short Story Award
My Daughter i "My daughter, as much herself as ever,", 2000 single work poetry
— Appears in: Northerly : A Journal of Arts and Letters in the Northern Regions of Australia and Beyond , August vol. 1 no. 2 2000; (p. 47-48)
— Appears in: Thylazine , no. 2 2000; Living Room : Poems from the Centre 2003; (p. 93-95) All the Shamans Work In Safeway : Poems for Young Adults 1990-2005 2006; (p. 55-57)
2000 joint winner Northern Territory Literary Awards — Poetry Award
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