Steph Bowe (1 February 1994 – 20 January 2020) was an
Australian
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novelist and blogger. She published three
young adult
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novels between 2010 and 2017, while her
blog
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, which she began at age 15, received about 12,000 hits per month.
Bowe was diagnosed with
T-lymphoblastic lymphoma in April 2019, and died from the condition on 20 January 2020. She was 25 years old.
In February 2021
Text Publishing
Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction, based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria.
Company background
Text Media was founded in Melbourne in 1990 by Diana Gribble and Eric Beecher, along wit ...
announced the Steph Bowe Mentorship for Young Writers. It is open to writers under 25 years of age and provides 20 hours of manuscript development assistance and writers' centre membership to the winner.
Bibliography
*''Girl Saves Boy'' (2010)
*''All This Could End'' (2013)
*''Night Swimming'' (2017)
References
External links
Official website
Australian women writers
Australian writers
1994 births
2020 deaths
21st-century Australian women
21st-century Australian people
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