Allayne Webster
ALLAYNE L. WEBSTER
Allayne is an internationally published Australian Children's and Young Adult Author. She plays guitar, sings, and sometimes she illustrates. A multiple arts grant recipient and a former SA Premier’s Reading Challenge Ambassador (2018-2024 inclusive), Allayne has served on literary boards, and her novels have been listed for various awards. Paper Planes (Scholastic) was a 2016 CBCA Notable, shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and is included in the Australian Heritage Literary Project Untapped Collection. A Cardboard Palace (MidnightSun Publishing) was a 2018 CBCA Notable, published in Sweden. Our Little Secret (Scholastic) was listed for the Golden Inkys, and in 2022 a new edition was released by Ligature Press. The Centre of My Everything (Penguin RandomHouse) was listed in the 2019 Davitt Awards and shortlisted in the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Sensitive (UQP) is published in Russia, and was shortlisted in the 2020 Australian Speech Pathology Awards, and is a 2023 WINNER Outstanding Book for Young People with Disabilities - awarded by IBBY - International Board on Books for Young People. That Thing I Did was released March 2022 and has received rave reviews, including five stars in the Australian Book Review. Selfie - YA novel - 2023 (Text Publishing) was shortlisted for the 2024 Ethel Turner Prize - New South Wales Premier's Prize for Literature and the 2023 Children's Peace Literature Award - APS, Australian Psychological Society. In 2024, Allayne was shortlisted for the Max Fatchen Fellowship, 2024 South Australian Literary Awards, and was the winner of a grant (Arts SA.) Her latest YA novel, Maisy Hayes is Not For Sale, was released Sept 2025.
Allayne is an internationally published Australian Children's and Young Adult Author. She plays guitar, sings, and sometimes she illustrates. A multiple arts grant recipient and a former SA Premier’s Reading Challenge Ambassador (2018-2024 inclusive), Allayne has served on literary boards, and her novels have been listed for various awards. Paper Planes (Scholastic) was a 2016 CBCA Notable, shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and is included in the Australian Heritage Literary Project Untapped Collection. A Cardboard Palace (MidnightSun Publishing) was a 2018 CBCA Notable, published in Sweden. Our Little Secret (Scholastic) was listed for the Golden Inkys, and in 2022 a new edition was released by Ligature Press. The Centre of My Everything (Penguin RandomHouse) was listed in the 2019 Davitt Awards and shortlisted in the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Sensitive (UQP) is published in Russia, and was shortlisted in the 2020 Australian Speech Pathology Awards, and is a 2023 WINNER Outstanding Book for Young People with Disabilities - awarded by IBBY - International Board on Books for Young People. That Thing I Did was released March 2022 and has received rave reviews, including five stars in the Australian Book Review. Selfie - YA novel - 2023 (Text Publishing) was shortlisted for the 2024 Ethel Turner Prize - New South Wales Premier's Prize for Literature and the 2023 Children's Peace Literature Award - APS, Australian Psychological Society. In 2024, Allayne was shortlisted for the Max Fatchen Fellowship, 2024 South Australian Literary Awards, and was the winner of a grant (Arts SA.) Her latest YA novel, Maisy Hayes is Not For Sale, was released Sept 2025.