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Hi I'm Ian!

I am a self published children’s book author, poet and speaker.

        2017

  • Launched online Junior Writers Master Class
  • Guest Presenter- Mt Isa School Of The Air Home Tutor Seminar
  • Guest Author – Savannah Writers Festival, Townsville
  • Guest Speaker- Rise Of The Entrepreneur Conference, Gold Coast, QLD.
  • Weekly guest for author segment on 99.9 Live FM

       
        2016

  • Guest MC, Burdekin Shire Council Christmas Carols

  • Winner of Townsville City Council short story competition, “Bindal Boy”

  • Guest author, Burdekin Readers And Writers Festival

  • Delivered over 50 author talks, creative writing sessions and story time sessions in schools, Kindergartens, Day Cares and public libraries across North QLD

  • Set a Guinness World Record for “The most people wearing sock puppets in one place at one time.”

  • Launched “Junior Writers Club”

  • “I want to be a Jellyfish” live show at Reef HQ Aquarium, Townsville


    2015

  • Self published “Silly Socks,Sleepy Socks” 

  • Guest Author, Savannah Writers Festival

  • Top 3 finalist for NQ Arts Awards in Writing And Publication

  • Delivered over 50 story time sessions and author talks in schools, Kindergartens, Day Cares and public libraries across North QLD

    2014

  • Self Published “Watch Out For The Bickie Monster” 

I am the founder of Junior Writers Club (JWC) in Australia…

JWC is for children between 8 and 12 years of age and has been established to encourage and inspire the next generation of creative writers.

 I am Mr Balloonman…

I can make around 100 balloon creations from a tiny mouse to a giant balloon arch. I attend birthday parties and a variety of other events and bring smiles to the faces of kids and kids at heart. 

More about me…
I love to write bush poetry as well as other kinds of poems.

I was born in Victoria. I mostly grew up in Normanton in Queensland’s Gulf Of Carpentaria.  Among other things, I used to be a rodeo clown and a Real Estate Agent.

I love to encourage, motivate and inspire others to discover their passion and what they want to do in their life.  I love to help others to develop their business ideas. I attend a really cool church on Sunday’s and help out with the children’s program. I also donate blood on a regular basis. 

My favourite…

  • Book when I was growing up was Bottersnikes and Gumbles by S. A. Wakefield.

  • Book now is Richest Man In Babylon by George S Clason

  • Sports are AFL (I barrack for Hawthorn!) and Rodeo