STATIONERY PASSIONS Sue Wallman


This month, author Sue Wallman shares her stationery passions with Anita Loughrey. 

Sue Wallman is a SCBWI member and has three YA books published by Scholastic. She started her writing career as a magazine journalist and an editorial assistant for an American newspaper in Paris. She has also worked as a sub-editor, letters page editor and deputy feature’s editor, and is now a highly acclaimed author and secondary school librarian.


In an interview with me, Sue Wallman revealed she is a real pen fanatic. Her love of pens was probably triggered by winning a Crackerjack pen. Yes! Sue was on the television reciting a poem dressed in a home-made costume and won herself an amazing Crackerjack pen. I am totally envious. I would have loved a Crackerjack pen. What’s a Crackerjack pen, you say? Well I’m afraid you just missed out! Here is a picture of it for you instead:



But Sue’s favourite pen and she admits it may just be her favourite all-time possession, is an old Parker fountain pen which was her mum’s. It was a gift from her grandparents to her mum who used it for her O-level exams in the Fifties. Out of the blue, when Sue was a student, she gave it to her. The nib has never been changed – the way Sue and her mum both hold it must be similar because the pen writes smoothly for both of them. Sue used this pen to sign her first book contract.



Sue also has a whole drawer full of Sharpies. Whatever colour you need, she has it. She loves the sound of the click when the lid snaps on. She also loves to share her passion for pens with her friends and family.

At her book launches, she had pens printed with her book titles and web address as take-home presents.



This article is abridged from an original interview on the Papers Pens Poets blog. You can find out more about Sue and her stationery there.




Papers Pens Poets is a blog where writers can share their passion for all things stationery. It is the brain child of SCBWI member Jo Franklin and co-run by her and SCBWI’s membership coordinator, Anita Loughrey. The blog contains reviews, articles, and weekly interviews with a wide range of authors, covering books of all age ranges and genres.

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