Sue Lawson
Author, teacher & interviewer
Award-winning Australian author Sue Lawson writes books for children and young adults. Her books include picture book, The Biscuit Maker, illustrated by Liz Anelli, and young adult novels Freedom Ride, shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year and the NSW and WA Premiers’ Literary Awards, and Pan’s Whisper, which won the Australian Family Therapist Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award.
Sue also collaborates with other authors, including Boonwurrung Elder, Aunty Fay Stewart Muir, OAM. Their books include acclaimed picture books, Respect, Family and Sharing, from Magabala Books’ Our Place series. Their collaboration Always Was, Always Will Be, won the Eve Pownall Award, Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, 2025. Their latest picture book, Possum Skin Cloak is illustrated by the talented Leanne Jones.
To learn more about Sue, her young adult fiction, junior fiction, non-fiction and picture books, or about her workshops and interviewing roles, take a look around the website.
Please feel free to contact Sue to ask about her work, online writing session or interviewing or faciliating role.
Sue's latest work
*NEW*
From the moment you’re born, you’re cloaked in your possum skin.
Your possum skin cloak wraps you in the warmth of belonging, showing all who you are and where you are from.
Winner
CBCA Book of the Year Awards, 2025 Eve Pownall Award
Shortlisted
Wilderness Society’s 2025 Karajia Award for Children’s Literature
2025 Australian Book Industry Awards, Small Publishers’ Children’ Book of the Year.
Also from Sue Lawson
Author Sue Lawson
Sue Lawson is an award-winning author who writes books that challenge and delight. Sue spent many years working in radio, with both ABC and commercial stations, and as a teacher.
She currently works full-time writing, running workshops and facilitating literary interviews and festivals. Sue’s biography and large-format photo are available for download.
Acknowledgment of Country
Sue Lawson is proud to live, work and play on Wadawurrung Country. She believes it is a privilege to live and work on the beautiful coastal region that always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
Sue acknowledges the Wadawurrung people and all of Australia’s first people as traditional owners of this land.
She pays her respects to Elders, past, present and future, and thanks them for their ongoing care for Country, their rich storytelling tradition, and for the role their stories play in our lives.