Simmone Howell

Author

Simmone Howell has written everything from advertorials to short plays to soap opera dialogue. But mainly, she writes realistic teenage fiction and runs zine workshops.

What themes are recurring in your work?

Art, Music, Alienation, image, outsiders, relationships, personal mythology, freedom, love. Religion, sex, revolution.

What have been the highlights of your career?

My short film Pity 24 won the 2004 Awgie Award for best short screenplay and screened in far flung places like LA and London and Barcelona. Notes from the Teenage Underground was a CBCA notable and won the 2007 Victorian Premiers Awards for YA fiction and the inaugural inky Teenage Choice award. Everything Beautiful was a finalist in the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Best Writing. In 2010 I traveled to London and Edinburgh to talk teen fiction and run zine-making workshops.

Haven’t I seen you before?

I’ve appeared at Adelaide Writers Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Newcastle Young Writers Festival, Reading Matters Conference, the Worlds Literary Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival. I have also been a resident guest blogger on Inside a Dog.