Welcome to the official website of Helen Lowe.
Double Sir Julius Vogel Award Success!
The Sir Julius Vogel Awards recognise achievement in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by New Zealanders and were announced on Sunday 31 May, as part of the national Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention 2009.
Thornspell won the Sir Julius Vogel Award 2009 for Best Book: Young Adult; and Helen won the Sir Julius Vogel Award 2009 for Best New Talent
You can see photos here
Spinning Gold
I will be a panelist at the Spinning Gold: Children's Book Writing and Illustration Conference in Wellington from September 18-20, discussing "the fine art of selling your work" with fellow panelists John McIntyre, Noel Murphy, and Frances Plumpton. And given that it is such a wonderful programme, a keen participant in the conference as well!
Thornspell a Storylines "Notable" Book of 2008
The Storylines Childrens' Literature Trust have just released their Notable Books List 2009, for books published in 2008 — and Thornspell has been included as a "notable" book in the Junior fiction category!
I live in Christchurch, New Zealand, and write Fantasy-SciFi novels, poetry, and short fiction, and host a monthly poetry feature for Women on Air, Plains 96.9 FM.
I am represented by Robin Rue of Writers House Literary Agency in New York.
Thornspell
Thornspell is my first novel and is published by Knopf (Random House Children's Books, USA).
The Wall of Night Series
The Wall of Night is the first in a 4-book epic fantasy that is to be published by Eos (HarperCollins USA).
I have also been published by the NZ Listener, Takahe, a fine line, the NZ Electronic Poetry Centre, Blackmail Press, Poetry NZ, JAAM, Bravado, Yellow Moon and foam:e (Australia), and Carve (USA) literary journals, the Christchurch Press and Waikato Times newspapers, and broadcast on both Radio New Zealand and Plains 96.9 FM. I have been anthologized in Home: New Short Short Stories by New Zealand Writers (Random House New Zealand, 2005), The Best of Carve Magazine (USA, 2006), tiny gaps (NZ Poetry Society, 2006) and the taste of nashi, the third New Zealand haiku anthology (Windrift, 2008).