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Asian Festival of Children’s Content
21—24 May 2026

Novels in verse are growing in popularity around the world. Award-winning verse novellist Sally Murphy shares her process, exploring how (and why) she chooses to shape narratives using free verse rather than prose.

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Sally Murphy

Sally Murphy (Australia)

Sally Murphy is an author, poet and academic. Her award-winning books include Pearl Verses the World, Worse Things and Queen Narelle, and she has poems published in magazines and anthologies across the world. Also a passionate educator, she lectures in literacy education at Curtin University in Perth.

Crispin Rodrigues

Crispin Rodrigues (Singapore)

Crispin Rodrigues is the author of 4 collections of poetry, the latest being dragon.paper.wind. (Pagesetters, 2024). He is also the co-editor of Crazy Little Pyromaniacs, an anthology of young Singapore poets. His work has been featured in several online and print journals. He is currently working on a new poetry collection.

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