News - Tanya Heaslip

The Telegraph Magazine (UK) 6 June 2020

7 June, 2020

London based journalist, Jonathan Margolis, interviewed me, my great friend Janie Joseland-Bennett, Kate McMaster, the Alice Springs School of the Air Visitor Centre and other former students on the subject of remote schooling.

The Alice Springs School of the Air Visitor Centre is now a go-to place from counties around the world for advice on remote/distance learning during COVID-19.

Here is a short video by Jonathan Margolis introducing his story in the 6 June edition of The Telegraph Magazine, followed by the story itself.

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Centralian Advocate 15 May 2020

20 May, 2020

Front page (and page two) of the Centralian Advocate. Perfect timing for the launch of An Alice Girl. How lucky am I! A huge thank you to Alyce, Emma, Anthony and the team at the Advocate for their incredible support.

The Cattle Duffers

7 May, 2020

Prologue – The Cattle Duffers [An extract from An Alice Girl ]

‘Cooeeeee!’

The call ripped through the hot, still air. I swivelled in the saddle, hands tight on the reins, straining to catch the direction of the sound. My skewbald mare Sandy moved restlessly under me, her ears pricked, sensing my anxiety. To the west lay a rocky rise, shrouded by bluegrey mulga, but if the sound had come from behind the rise it was impossible to tell. Behind me a dry creek bed dropped away to the south, lined by river gums wilting in the afternoon heat. There was no sign of anyone there. Nor did it seem a likely hideout.

I cupped my hands around my mouth and shouted in return, ‘Cooeeeee!’ The words hit the low hills and reverberated back, while above a hawk rose high into the vastness on the currents of a willywilly. Like my shout, the hawk was soon a speck in the emptiness, swallowed by the big, blue bowl of sky above. Sweat ran down the back of my thin cotton shirt. The sun burned my arms. Time was running out.

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Pedals – April 2020 Edition

2 May, 2020

Pedals – The Magazine of the Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association has included a feature story ‘Becoming An Author‘ in their April 2020 edition. (more…)

Collins Booksellers Autumn Reading Guide

2 May, 2020

So wonderful to have An Alice Girl feature in Collins Booksellers Autumn Reading Guide.

Please do drop in and visit your local store. Not sure where your nearest Collins Bookseller is located; take a look at their store locator.

Desert Tracks

8 May, 2020

Desert Tracks

By Emma Haskin on Saturday Mornings with Rohan Barwick

ABC Alice Springs journalist Emma Haskin interviews Tanya on growing up on Bond Springs station, her love of learning and working in the Czech Republic.

Duration: 55min 25sec

Broadcast: Sat 21 Mar 2020, 6:00am

Imprint – December 2019 Edition

4 May, 2020

So wonderful to have this review of Alice to Prague by Glenn Morrison in the December edition of the NT Writers’Centre Journal.

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Territory Q – October 2019 Edition

4 May, 2020

Thanks to the team at Territory Q for their support. A one-page article ‘A Home Like Alice’ by Jack Adlam appeared in the October-December 2019 Edition.

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SMH – SPECTRUM

26 April, 2020

Spring Arrives

8 May, 2020

Spring Arrives [An extract from Alice to Prague ] I leapt back into teaching with my soul restored, eager to embrace all that lay ahead of me. We played lots of music in class, working the nouns, verbs and adverbs around the songs, while the students continued to learn more vocabulary related to the wild …