Hazel Edwards

This engaging collection features five thought-provoking plays designed specifically for classroom performance. Written by acclaimed Australian author Hazel Edwards, the plays tackle contemporary themes including technology, life choices, media influence, bureaucracy and time management, while being perfectly crafted to fit within a standard forty-minute lesson. More than just entertainment, these plays serve as powerful teaching tools, combining literacy development with active learning and social skills. Whether exploring technological change in 'The Not-So-Great Excuse Machine', grappling with life's big decisions in 'Everyperson', satirising modern media in 'The Fairly Fake TV Show', unravelling mysteries in 'The Mt Paperwork Whodunnit', or diving into reader's theatre with 'The Minutes of Time', these plays promise engaging experiences that spark meaningful classroom discussions.

IS IT WASTED? OR A NEW OPPORTUNITY? Faced with visa challenges, the asylum seekers prove to be innovators, not victims. Drawing on their resources, they repurpose, recycle and re-create a new state trading bio-fuel via the mid-ocean garbage patches. Teenage Kit illustrates how you can draw a new future as activists turn to science. But what happens in this new world order?

A user-friendly resource book for teachers, Kaleidoscope of Ideas contains numerous classroom activities that are designed to help middle primary to junior secondary students develop creative thinking skills. These practical and enjoyable activities require very little preparation and may be used in the classroom immediately. Covering topics that range from the everyday to larger global and more serious issues, each activity can be used as a tool to help the development of systematic creative thinking. The hands-on activities in Kaleidoscope of Ideas will appeal to gifted and talented students, encouraging cooperative social skills, different techniques and approaches to creativity and more.

Authorpreneurship is about investing in your creativity to increase your professional opportunities. Today, a creator needs to be an 'authorpreneur': an originator and an entrepreneur. Apart from crafting words and books, or other creative work for specific audiences, this means learning the marketing, publicity, technological, legal and entrepreneurial skills to establish and maintain self-employment in the business of ideas. The creator is the brand, which is overwhelming, if there's only you. This book offers strategies for beginners, mid-career and highly experienced creators needing to adapt to a fast-changing, digital, global industry. It's about sharing ideas so you can work effectively at what you most enjoy creating, and providing ways to help sell your work for longer, in varied new formats and to larger audiences. Great ideas won't reach audiences unless the creators can stay in business and survive financially.

Workplays provides school to work transition play scripts and activities for secondary school students. This approach provides students with a realistic understanding of a variety of professions, trades and careers, fosters collaboration between subjects and develops essential skills for the workplace world. This second edition of Hazel Edwards' well-loved and used teacher resource, highlights the practicality of integrating plays and simulated workplace experiences in schools in addition, or in lieu of work placements. Multiple play scripts, activities and discussion points provide for all level of reading skills. The book advocates for the value of incorporating simulated workplace experiences, offering a practical and inclusive skills approach to preparing students for future work.

Issues contains a collection of scripts, discussion prompts and activities for use in the classroom, as a way of opening up students to understand and process topical and sensitive issues in their world, from a range of perspectives. The art of performing harnesses the students engagement in the subject and offers a chance to immerse themselves within the protection of a character or role. This book gives middle school and secondary school students a chance to discuss contemporary topics problems during the classroom rehearsal and performance of these scripts. There are enough parts for all the class to participate, and discussion prompts and activities are provided to extend and deepen classroom discussion. Extensively workshopped and already used in classrooms across Australia this is a large collection of student play scripts allows students and teachers to improve their ability to understand, navigate and discuss sensitive issues in the classroom.

Hazel Edwards has a cake-eating hippo on her roof, an OAM for literature, and thousands of book-children-as well as a real family. Plus the Hazelnuts she has mentored and a readership in 13 languages. Using 'anecdultery', which is Hazel's term for story-telling, she explains where her ideas come from and why writing long-term is mentally risky but culturally vital and contributes to a non-boring life. The hippocampus is where memories are kept-even those from Nepal to Antarctica, where Hazel was an expeditioner. Now Hazel's hippocampus is overflowing. Her stories have given adult fans and child readers diverse insights into other worlds, both fact and fiction. She is now sharing the creative process of her quest and the quandary of how much to reveal.(OAM is not for Hippo as an Outsized, Awesome Myth.)

'I buried my father, married my sister and sorted the missing will.'Quinn, a celebrant with style and a few obsessions but a good heart, solves quirky problems, mysteries and the occasional murder at weddings, funerals and naming ceremonies in her country town. Ex-actor with a great voice who writes eulogies to die for Not forgetting a few quotable 'Quinn's Laws of Relativity'. A romantic, but asexual, Quinn lives with her long term partner Art who runs community Channel Zero. The workstyle of a celebrant is never routine. Fake I. D. Fraud. Fights, even to the death, over wills and inheritance ... Mislaid rings. Lost bride. Food poisoning. Clients of varied ages and cultures are well looked after. Even vintage millionairess Flora with the much younger lover who might be a con-artist. Quinn solves most problems but not always in the expected way. About the Author: Longterm Sisters-in-Crime member and cultural risk-taker, Australian author Hazel Edwards has diverse genres amongst her 200 published books. She is best known for 'There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake' now touring as a musical. 'f2m: the boy within' her co-written YA coming of age novel about trans youth was a first. In 2013, Hazel was awarded an OAM for Literature.

What happens when who you are on the inside clashes with who you are on the outside? Skye plays guitar for the all-girl Chronic Cramps, and is part of the punk scene. Then a life-changing decision turns her world upside down. Skye becomes Finn, transitioning from female to male. How will Finn's friends and family cope?

We all have people in our lives who frustrate, annoy, or hurt us: workplace bullies, those who always claim to be right, or those with anxious or obsessive personalities. And most of us hurt others occasionally, too. Now, authors Dr. Helen McGrath, a clinical psychologist and professor, and Hazel Edwards, a professional writer, offer this highly readable, extremely practical guide to dealing with the difficult personalities we encounter every day--in others, and in ourselves. Taking the American Psychiatric Association's widely used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) as its starting point, Difficult Personalities helpfully outlines over a dozen different personality traits and types, detailing their common characteristics and underlying motivations. It also equips readers with numerous strategies for dealing with difficult behavior, including: - Anger and conflict management - Optimism and assertion training - Rational and empathic thinking - Reexamining your own personality. Readers will also benefit from sections on making difficult decisions and maintaining romantic relationships. Perfect for anyone who has ever wished that other people came with a handbook, Difficult Personalities illuminates the personality differences that so often serve as barriers to cooperation in the workplace and harmony at home.