The Prize for Young Adult Fiction: Judges 2004

Clare Renner (Convenor)

Clare Renner  started her professional life as an English teacher, before moving on to write educational resource books. She has always had a strong interest in youth literature, was a member of the Dromkeen committee and has reviewed regularly for Viewpoint. She now writes fiction and non-fiction for both children and young adults and is currently teaching Writing for Young Adults at RMIT as part of their Professional Writing and Editing program.

Chris Girdler

Chris Girdler is one of the advisers at children's books specialists The Little Bookroom, following a history of working at chain bookstores and libraries. He divides his spare time between stage direction and acting for theatre and a post-graduate course in Editing and Publishing. Chris was born and brought up the South Island of New Zealand but now calls Melbourne home.

Pam Macintyre

Pam Macintyre is a lecturer in children’s and young adult literature at the University of Melbourne. She was the Victorian Judge for the Children’s Book Council Awards in 1996 and 1997, a member of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Committee from 1994 to 1996. She is vice-president of the Victorian Branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia. She is Chair of the Youth Literature Programming Committee of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival and a member of the Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR) and regularly reviews children’s and young adult books for the Australian Book Review and has a monthly column ‘Generation Next’ in the Australian’s Review of Books. She is the editor of the quarterly journal Viewpoint: on books for young adults.