Amelia Michell
Amelia Michell is a clever and surprising young writer from the Hunter Valley. She is a farm girl with a big heart and a quick wit, and she is always so much fun to have at our workshops. Our Milly is just as comfortable writing YA horror as she is writing sweet animal stories—we never know what to expect, but we always know it will be good.
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  • Wind
    AN EXTRACT by Amelia Michell Prologue The fire flared. Four women, Fire, Water, Earth and Wind, stepped out of the glowing coals. Eyes focusing on the crackling fire, the sisters joined hands, forming a circle. The shortest sister, Fire, narrowed her fox-orange eyes, muttering. She opened her mouth and a snake, the colour of poison, slithered from between her teeth into her gnarled hand. The snake crawled across each of the sisters’ hands, moulding them together, one by one. It ...
  • Maia and the Giant Sloth
    By Amelia Michell The moon shone, illuminating the screeching bats. The dense jungle covered up every bit of soil it could muster. Lush grass and ferns stood brave, while ants carried fallen and rotting mangoes from the ground. Monkeys swinging from tree to tree chattered excitedly, and all the while dark shadows moved silently, making Maia jump. She began to feel very tired. Setting up her tent at last, Maia yawned. She got into her sleeping bag and fell asleep. ...
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Amelia's work features in four of our Talented Kids anthologies. Her published short stories include:

  • Land of the Unknown
  • Maia and the Giant Sloth
  • Zombie Attack
  • The Men on the Horses
  • Wind
  • Twisted Tales

She has also published various haiku and other poems.

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  • Wind
    AN EXTRACTby Amelia MichellPrologueThe fire flared. Four women, Fire, Water, Earth and Wind, stepped out of the glowing coals. Eyes focusing on the crackling fire, the sisters joined hands, forming a circle. The shortest sister, Fire, narrowed her fox-orange eyes, muttering. She opened her mouth and a snake, the colour of poison, slithered from between her teeth into her gnarled hand. The snake crawled across each of the sisters’ hands, moulding them together, one by one. It reached the last ...
  • Maia and the Giant Sloth
    By Amelia Michell The moon shone, illuminating the screeching bats. The dense jungle covered up every bit of soil it could muster. Lush grass and ferns stood brave, while ants carried fallen and rotting mangoes from the ground. Monkeys swinging from tree to tree chattered excitedly, and all the while dark shadows moved silently, making Maia jump. She began to feel very tired. Setting up her tent at last, Maia yawned. She got into her sleeping bag and fell asleep. ...
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Amelia's work features in four of our Talented Kids anthologies. Her published short stories include:

  • Land of the Unknown
  • Maia and the Giant Sloth
  • Zombie Attack
  • The Men on the Horses
  • Wind
  • Twisted Tales

She has also published various haiku and other poems.

Visit our bookshop
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