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In 1998 he bought the Tye Estate, 850 acres of natural bush, on the northern edge of Melbourne, and later added the property next door. For eight years he ran enormously popular writers' courses and camps at Tye, before starting his own school there, Candlebark, in 2006.
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Early life. Marsden was born in Victoria and spent the first 10 years of his life living in the country towns of Kyneton, Victoria, and Devonport, Tasmania. [4] He is a great-great-great-great nephew of colonial Anglican clergyman and magistrate Rev. Samuel Marsden. [4]
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I first came up with the idea when I was 15 and sitting in school, fantasising about a world without adults, because pretty much all the adults I encountered were authoritarian, were not interested in fairness or justice, they lacked compassion, they lacked imagination and they were really a bloody nuisance. I think the reason I connect with young ...
I went to university because it was just the expected thing to do. When I got there, I found it alienating and so huge that I couldn't connect with anything or anyone. It was a very lonely and disturbing time, and I got more and more emotionally ill, and went to see a counsellor eventually who suggested I discontinue the course and seek professiona...
There was no instant cure from being in a psych hospital. I didn't come out of there beaming with happiness and joy and immediately apply myself to becoming a school principal ... It was another eight years before I finally decided to try teaching as a career. By then, I'd dropped out of four different degrees, so I thought, "I'll just take the eas...
All through my teenage and adult years, I kept wondering what a good school would look like and how you could make a school good, and I made a few tentative attempts to start a school but they didn't work out. I finally thought, "The only way I can do this is to make enough money to do it myself." And the day did come when I had made enough money f...
So, I started the school Candlebark near Romsey in Victoria, which is now in its 13th year, and which is a wonderful place to be. We occupy what we claim is the biggest campus in the world, and most of it is forest. It's very important that young people get their hands dirty, both literally and metaphorically. When I tried to start the school, we g...
Running a school is probably the most intense and complicated job I've had in my life. The only thing I can compare it to is when I worked in the emergency department at Sydney Hospital when I was about 19. You don't know what the next phone call, the next email, the next knock on the door will be. It might be something delightful, like someone bri...
John Marsden is an Australian writer and teacher. He has been writing YA literature for three decades and has made an indelible mark on generations of readers and writers in Australia. John's first book, So Much to Tell You, was published in 1987.
Jun 12, 2018 · In what is almost the ultimate sacrifice for a prolific writer, in recent years Marsden has put down his pen in lieu of full-time teaching at Candlebark, one of two independent schools he founded on bush properties outside Melbourne.
Jul 11, 2024 · He has sold over five million books and has won every major award in Australia for young people's fiction. John founded two schools in Victoria, Candlebark and Alice Miller. The two schools enrolled 380 students in 2019.
Tomorrow series - Wikipedia. The Tomorrow series is a series of seven young adult invasion novels written by Australian writer John Marsden, detailing the invasion and occupation of Australia by a foreign power.
