Dr Pamela Freeman is the award-winning author of more than 30 books. Her most recent book, published under the name of Pamela Hart, is The Desert Nurse, a WWI historical novel set in Cairo and the Sinai, and covers the entire war, ending on Armistice Day. 

In 2017 A Letter from Italy, a historical novel set at the height of World War I was published. In 2016, The War Bride, a historical novel set shortly after World War I was published, sequel to The Soldier’s Wife (2015) (all published by Hachette Australia).

For children, her most recent publication is Amazing Australian Women – a non-fiction picture book about 12 women who shaped history (Hachette Australia 2018) and Fastest Ship in Space – a fantastic space adventure (Christmas Press 2018).

Her award-winning Desert Lake, tells the story of the dry salt bed of Kati Thanda – Lake Eyre which shimmers in the desert heat. (Walker Books Australia 2016). Pamela also writes fantasy fiction for adults. She is best known for the Castings trilogy (published in the US, the UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany as well as Australia) and for Ember and Ash, winner of the Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel. Another children’s book, Victor’s Challenge, was published in 2009 in Australia and the UK and won the Aurealis Award for Best Children’s Fantasy.

Pamela started as a children’s writer, and many of her books have been shortlisted for the State Literary Awards, the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Awards, the Koala Awards and the Wilderness Society Environment Awards. Pamela – who is also an accomplished scriptwriter – taught creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney for many years. She has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Sydney and taught writing workshops around Australia for the National Book Council and various state libraries.  She continues to be an examiner for postgraduate manuscripts for universities around Australia.

Pamela has a Doctor of Creative Arts in Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney. She has published numerous short stories and has spoken at various writers’ festivals around the country.

Her most recent book for young adults, The Black Dress, a fictional account of the childhood of Mary MacKillop in the Australia of the 1840s to 1860s, won the NSW History Prize for Young People. Pamela is also Director of Creative Writing Faculty here at the Australian Writers’ Centre.

Find out more about Pamela at www.pamelafreeman.com.

Pamela teaches Creative Writing Stage 1, Novel Writing Essentials, Fantasy, Science Fiction and More, Write Your Novel 6-month Program, Inside Publishing, Reboot Your Writing, How to Write for Children and Young Adults, Fiction Essentials: Characters, Fiction Essentials: Dialogue, Fiction Essentials: Point of View.