Mem Fox
Awarded Author, Academic & Keynote Speaker
Mem Fox is one of Australia’s most loved children’s authors and a passionate literacy advocate. She has written over 40 books for children, including Possum Magic, and speaks widely on the transformative power of reading, creativity and equality.
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Mem Fox is one of Australia’s most beloved children’s authors and a passionate advocate for literacy. She has written over 40 books for children—including Possum Magic, Time for Bed, Where Is the Green Sheep? and Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes—as well as non-fiction books for adults, including the acclaimed Reading Magic. Her stories often carry subtle messages of equality, tolerance and respect, inspiring young readers across Australia and around the world.
A former Associate Professor of Literacy Studies at Flinders University, Mem taught teachers for 24 years and remains deeply committed to demonstrating the importance of the first five years of life in developing literacy. She speaks extensively to schools, community groups, corporate audiences and associations, sharing her personal story of literary success, creative thinking, and the transformative power of reading.
Born in Melbourne and raised in Africa, Mem brings a unique perspective on Australia and a lifelong passion for its culture and communities. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages, earned numerous civic honours and awards, and three honorary doctorates. Mem brings drama and creativity, warmth and compassion and most importantly, a contagious joy for life, literacy and creativity to all her keynote presentations.
Mem lives by the beach in Adelaide but travels widely to advocate for literacy and the joy of storytelling.
Topics
- What makes a writer, and then what makes a writer successful? These are two very different things.
- How did I come to be who I am, when my first book Possum Magic was rejected five times over nine years?
- Is it networking, luck, or one’s actual work-and-product that breeds success?
- Why reading to our children will change their lives forever.
- Why successful writers are always readers first.
- Where the heck do all those ideas come from?
- Is your child’s school killing an interest in reading by the way reading is taught?
