Fleur Ferris

Fleur Ferris spent the first seventeen years of her life growing up on a farm in Patchewollock, North West Victoria. She then moved twenty times in twenty years.

During this time, Fleur sometimes saw the darker side to life while working for a number of years as a police officer and a paramedic.

She now lives a more settled lifestyle on a rice farm in Southern New South Wales, with her husband and three young children.

Fleur’s colourful and diverse background has given her unique insight into today’s society and an endless pool of experiences to draw from. When she isn’t weaving this through young adult fiction, reading or spending time with her family, you will find her with friends, talking about art, books and travel.

Fleur’s first YA novel, Risk, won the Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature, the Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards for Best Young Adult Novel and Best Debut Book 2016, as well as a YABBA in 2017. She has also written Black, Wreck and Found for young adults. Her novel Seven Days won the Sister’s In Crime Davitt Award for Best YA Crime Novel.

For the past five years Fleur has been working hard to broaden her writing skills to screen. She has done a number of workshops with AFTRS (Screenwriting for feature films and TV Series), Corey Mandell (Story Development, Professional Screenwriting & TV Writing), and University of Canberra (Screen Development).

Fleur’s novel Nullaboo Hullabaloo is being adapted to an animated feature film in Hollywood. You can watch the 90 second teaser here

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