An illustration portfolio assessment and 1 hour zoom chat with multi-award winning children’s author and illustrator Briony Stewart

Briony Stewart is an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books. In 2022 she won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in the catagory of Children’s fiction for her work with Sheryl Clarke on the verse novel ‘Mina and the Whole Wide World’.

She is the receipient of a Children’s Book Council of Australia Honour Book Award for her book ‘We Love You Magoo’ and has been shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award for ‘Bedtime Sorted’ which she co-created with comedian and T.V personality Jimmy Rees.

Briony’s first book Kumiko and the Dragon was published in 2007 and won an Aurealis Award. It soon became a trilogy and in 2012 the final book in the series, ‘Kumiko and the Shadow Catchers’. won The Queensland Literary Award’s Children’s Book Prize. In 2012 Briony was selected by the British Council as one of 3 Australian Artists under 30, excelling in their creative field for the ‘Realize Your Dream Awards’. She spent 9 months in the UK developing as a children’s author and illustrator.