Our second Fairy GOFFmother is Anna Barnes!

ANNA BARNES is an award winning young adult non fiction writer and playwright.

Her plays and monologues have been performed around Australia and in 2013 she was awarded the Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White playwrighting award. She is currently developing new work with Bell Shakespeare and the Griffin Theatre Company.

She spent her teenage years making zines and joining countless bands that would never play a single gig. In 2009 she and close friend and amazing babe, Eliza Sarlos (Amazing Babes, Scribe 2013) created a blog (fyi or die) where they talked about all things music, feminism, reality TV and basketball.

In 2012 her first book, a non-fiction book for girls, Girl! The Ultimate Guide to Being You, was published by Penguin Australia. In April 2013 Girl! was named as one of the Eva Pownall Notable Books of 2013 by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. She regularly speaks to girls at schools about topics as varied as how to make your own media tools and how to improve self esteem. In 2013 she was host to Rookie Mag’s Tavi Gevinson (USA) for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s Rookie Day and this year returns to MWF to host Amazing Babes with Eliza Sarlos.

We’ve some special plans for girls at GOFF, and Anna is a big part of them – we can hardly wait to tell you what’s in store! Suffice to say, with Anna at the helm, it’s gonna rock.