Dimity Powell is an award-winning children’s author and Kids’ Lit reviewer who has been around the world a couple of times, or maybe more.

Her words appear in school magazines, anthologies for children, online, as immersive digital narrative, in junior novels, in picture books and as creative content for children’s apps, one of which, Circus School features in Virgin Australia’s inflight kids’ entertainment program.

Her choose-your-own-adventure styled digital narrative for the  Story City app. The Chapel of Unlove was Shortlisted in the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards 2016. Her short story, Concrete Boots won First Prize in the 2016 Charlotte Duncan Award. You can view more of her notable achievements here.

Dimity’s debut junior novel PS Who Stole Santa’s Mail? unashamedly celebrates the magic of Christmas. Her poignant picture book, The Fix-It Man graced bookshops across the planet in 2017. Comprehensive teachers’ notes for The Fix-It Man can be found, here.

Dimity's second picture book At The End of Holyrood Lane has been announced the winner of The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Members Choice Award for 2019! 

At The End of Holyrood Lane is a poignant yet uplifting picture book that deals with domestic violence in a way that provides understanding and offers hope to young children. Visually arresting and emotionally incisive, this beautifully crafted picture book provides a sensitive glimpse into one aspect of domestic violence and how it can affect young lives without the use of overt explicitness or didactic overtones.

Pippa (2019) is a fun, uplifting picture book that has won the hearts of school children everywhere. This plucky little pigeon has even appeared (with Dimity) on national TV as part of the 2020 learning@home initiative.  

Oswald Messweather (March 2021) is Dimity’s forth picture and is about a young boy’s struggle in acknowledging details, letting go and moving on from the abyss of OCD, illustrated by Siobhan McVey. Continuing her winning partnership with Nicky Johnston and EK Books.

Dimity released her latest picture in 2022. This Is My Dad is a tender story about Leo, whose normal love of show and tell turns to dread when he is asked to talk about his father, who he has never known. Leo’s solution is ingenious and proves that families come in many shapes and sizes.

Pippa and the Troublesome Twins - illustrated by Andrew Plant, was released in June 2023. Pippa loves her new twin baby brothers, Pepi and Penn. But their constant mess and cries for attention are driving her batty! She yearns to take off on her own but she has to babysit instead. For more details, see Pippa and the Troublesome Twins in the Links section.

Dimity believes kids and great stories are life-essentials, like ice-cream. She fills her spare time reviewing the ones she loves (stories that is, not ice-cream flavours) at DIM’S re VIEWS and Kids Book Review for whom she is the Managing Editor. She is also a Books in Homes Role Model, an accredited Write Like an Author facilitator and online and in-school presenter for G.A.T.E.WAYS Education.

Dimity lives on the Gold Coast where dreams sparkle. Discover more at Dimity's Website

NEW ONLINE INITIATIVES: 

 See Dimity's YouTube Channel which includes Free Stories

Dimity is also willing and able to conduct online meet and greet hook-ups, one on one discussions, Q & A sessions, story readings or group presentations and workshops.

Her virtual presentation Having Fun and Being Brave is now available on Powerpoint  (see run sheet in Links)

Dimity features with a book reading of, Pippa in Episode 2 of the Qld Department of Education's Reading at Home TV Show - below.

Read about the experience at:

Dimity's Blog - Making a TV Show