About Kate
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'Kate O’Neil' is the pen-name of Dianne Cook who has taught literature for over thirty years, first as an English teacher and currently as a teacher of Speech and Drama at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music. She has worked with students of all ages preparing performances for exams, competitions and auditions. She enjoys sharing their discovery and appreciation of the language of poems, stories and plays. She hopes all her students will contract a serious addiction to literature and is pleased to report some confirmed cases.
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Kate has written poetry, mostly for children, since her school days. Her poems have appeared in publications such as:
The Voice, the magazine of the Speech and Drama Association of NSW. Editor: Zita Denholm. Triple D Books Wagga.
The Crock of Charms project edited by Sally Odgers. Prints Charming Books 2013.
The Prints Rhyming anthology edited by Sally Odgers 2015
Caterpillar Magazine Issue 5 Summer 2014
Poetica Christi anthology 2014 A Lightness of Being
and her poems have also been placed in a number of competitions:
Ipswich Poetry Feast, Toolangi C J Dennis Poetry Competition, Kathleen Julia Bates Poetry Competition, Jackie Hosking Spring Poetry Competition, Stonnington Libraries Poetry Competition.
Let in the Stars
In 2014 Kate was short-listed for the inaugural Manchester Writing for Children Prize.
Three of her poems appear in the competition anthology Let in the Stars:
High Achievers, Paragliders Bald Hill Lookout and Sondry Folk.
The book is now available to buy online from both Manchester Children’s Book Festival bookshop: http://www.mcbf.org.uk/books and from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk
“This powerful collection of moving, clever and funny work sends an important message that poetry for children must be taken seriously, must be cherished and must be made available.” Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy
Poet and educator Mandy Coe came to the Manchester Writing School at MMU in late 2013 on a mission. Troubled by a severe decline in the number of publishers launching new poetry for children, and the lack of opportunities for writers of children’s poems to reach an audience in print, she made an ardent case for the genre’s place on bookshelves. Galvanised by Mandy’s passion, Carol Ann Duffy and her team in the School launched an international search for the best new poetry written for children. Thousands of poems were submitted and the work of 30 poets – based in the UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Uganda, and the USA – was selected by Mandy, Imtiaz Dharker and Philip Gross, and collected into a beautifully illustrated anthology: Let in the Stars.
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The Voice, the magazine of the Speech and Drama Association of NSW. Editor: Zita Denholm. Triple D Books Wagga.
The Crock of Charms project edited by Sally Odgers. Prints Charming Books 2013.
The Prints Rhyming anthology edited by Sally Odgers 2015
Caterpillar Magazine Issue 5 Summer 2014
Poetica Christi anthology 2014 A Lightness of Being
and her poems have also been placed in a number of competitions:
Ipswich Poetry Feast, Toolangi C J Dennis Poetry Competition, Kathleen Julia Bates Poetry Competition, Jackie Hosking Spring Poetry Competition, Stonnington Libraries Poetry Competition.
Let in the Stars
In 2014 Kate was short-listed for the inaugural Manchester Writing for Children Prize.
Three of her poems appear in the competition anthology Let in the Stars:
High Achievers, Paragliders Bald Hill Lookout and Sondry Folk.
The book is now available to buy online from both Manchester Children’s Book Festival bookshop: http://www.mcbf.org.uk/books and from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk
“This powerful collection of moving, clever and funny work sends an important message that poetry for children must be taken seriously, must be cherished and must be made available.” Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy
Poet and educator Mandy Coe came to the Manchester Writing School at MMU in late 2013 on a mission. Troubled by a severe decline in the number of publishers launching new poetry for children, and the lack of opportunities for writers of children’s poems to reach an audience in print, she made an ardent case for the genre’s place on bookshelves. Galvanised by Mandy’s passion, Carol Ann Duffy and her team in the School launched an international search for the best new poetry written for children. Thousands of poems were submitted and the work of 30 poets – based in the UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Uganda, and the USA – was selected by Mandy, Imtiaz Dharker and Philip Gross, and collected into a beautifully illustrated anthology: Let in the Stars.
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