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Northern Books - bringing literary events to readers and writers across Victoria. Passionate about promoting Australian authors, great books and reading.

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A gem short video (7min) exploring and appreciating the landscape with unique Trace Balla creator of graphic novels like no others. Her latest book is 'Leaf-light' @AllenAndUnwin abc.net.au/gardening/how-…


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My interview with #sallyrippin new #australianchildrenslaureate in the #weekendaustralianreview Sally is Australia’s biggest selling author of #childrensbooks & reading advocate. ⁦@DMCPRmedia⁩ ⁦@HardieGrantCP#allkidscanbereaders #pollyandbuster

joylawn1's tweet image. My interview with #sallyrippin new #australianchildrenslaureate in the #weekendaustralianreview Sally is Australia’s biggest selling author of #childrensbooks & reading advocate. ⁦@DMCPRmedia⁩ ⁦@HardieGrantCP⁩ #allkidscanbereaders #pollyandbuster

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👏Congrats to Australia's amazing Indigenous Literacy Foundation @IndigenousLF Their much-loved book and character, Moli det bigibigi, has a sequel! Written in Kriol and English and based on a true story, it follows the adventures of a real- life pig called Moli.

NatCentAusChLit's tweet image. 👏Congrats to Australia's amazing Indigenous Literacy Foundation @IndigenousLF  Their much-loved book and character, Moli det bigibigi, has a sequel! Written in Kriol and English and based on a true story, it follows the adventures of a real- life pig called Moli.

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⭐️ATTENTION SCHOOLS Sign up today to join new Australian Children's Laureate Sally Rippin for her official program launch. It's FREE ... LIVE... and ONLINE ➡️Tuesday, 20 February 2024 ➡️11–11.45am AEDT REGISTER ➡️wheelercentre.typeform.com/to/LsvRRM5A @aslanational @PETAAConnect #sallyrippin

Ozlaureate's tweet image. ⭐️ATTENTION SCHOOLS
Sign up today to join new Australian Children's Laureate Sally Rippin for her official program launch.

It's FREE ... LIVE... and ONLINE
➡️Tuesday, 20 February 2024
➡️11–11.45am AEDT

REGISTER  ➡️wheelercentre.typeform.com/to/LsvRRM5A
@aslanational @PETAAConnect #sallyrippin
Ozlaureate's tweet image. ⭐️ATTENTION SCHOOLS
Sign up today to join new Australian Children's Laureate Sally Rippin for her official program launch.

It's FREE ... LIVE... and ONLINE
➡️Tuesday, 20 February 2024
➡️11–11.45am AEDT

REGISTER  ➡️wheelercentre.typeform.com/to/LsvRRM5A
@aslanational @PETAAConnect #sallyrippin

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Just over two weeks to go until applications close for The Wheeler Centre's Hot Desk Fellowships. Be sure to get your 500-word writing sample and full application in by 5pm AEDT, Monday 26 February. Learn more about how to apply below. tinyurl.com/mpkpzdk6


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Publisher-at-Large Dr @AnitaHeiss is thrilled to announce that her second acquisition under her Simon & Schuster Bundyi imprint is A Song of Time by author, media commentator and public intellectual, Stan Grant. simonandschuster.com.au/p/BUNDYI-ANNOU… Photo credit @ Kathy Luu

SimonSchusterAU's tweet image. Publisher-at-Large Dr @AnitaHeiss is thrilled to announce that her second acquisition under her Simon & Schuster Bundyi imprint is A Song of Time by author, media commentator and public intellectual, Stan Grant.

simonandschuster.com.au/p/BUNDYI-ANNOU…

Photo credit @ Kathy Luu

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The new Australian Children’s Laureate has just been announced! Congratulations Sally Rippin. What a legend! And love her mission statement: All kids can be readers! ❤️📚😃

Announcing SALLY RIPPIN as our Australian Children's Laureate for 2024 and 2025. Sally's mission is 'All kids can be readers!'. What an exciting two years ahead. @HardieGrantCP @creative_gov_au @CopyrightAgency #ozchildrenslaureate #allkidscanbereaders #sallyrippin



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‘My main advice [to aspiring writers] is write for yourself. Don't think about your readership, your audience. And listen to your own creative instincts, too.’ — Grace Yee (@nolotusblossom), #VPLA2024 It’s not too often that a poet gets on @ABCTV’s News Breakfast program!

GiramondoBooks's tweet image. ‘My main advice [to aspiring writers] is write for yourself. Don't think about your readership, your audience. And listen to your own creative instincts, too.’ — Grace Yee (@nolotusblossom), #VPLA2024 

It’s not too often that a poet gets on @ABCTV’s News Breakfast program!

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🎉 Congratulations Ellen van Neerven and Melissa Lucashenko for their wins tonight at the 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards! @wheelercentre 🏆 Prize for Fiction: 'Edenglassie' by Melissa Lucashenko 🏆Prize for Non-Fiction: 'Personal Score' by Ellen van Neerven

UQPbooks's tweet image. 🎉 Congratulations Ellen van Neerven and Melissa Lucashenko for their wins tonight at the 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards! @wheelercentre

🏆 Prize for Fiction: 'Edenglassie' by Melissa Lucashenko
🏆Prize for Non-Fiction: 'Personal Score' by Ellen van Neerven

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The Indie Book Awards 2024 shortlist has announced the finalists for the Fiction, Non-Fiction, Debut Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction, Children's and Young Adult categories. The category winners and the Overall Book Of the Year winner will be announced on Monday 25 March.


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This is so important - books read as children change lives forever. Michael Morpurgo backs call to ensure poorer children have access to books theguardian.com/education/2024…


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Deal news! Delighted to share that @catherinefmilne at @HarperCollinsAU has acquired @PaulDalgarno’s third novel, “The Travelling Library”, for 2026 pub! booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/…


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Just published! Open access! ABR Podcast featuring the five shortlisted poems (as read by the poets) in the 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize | @nataliednapo @judith_nangala @dzenanabanana @packetofchips #merediortega australianbookreview.com.au/podcast/760-th…


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Congratulations to @RobbieArnott for making the longlist! The Library nominated his novel ‘Limberlost’ for the 2024 @DublinLitAward. “An extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and kindness, blood ties and love.” – @text_publishing dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/bo…

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Limberlost - Dublin Literary Award

Limberlost - Dublin Literary Award

70 books. 80 libraries. 35 countries. THe 2024 #DublinLitAward longlist is a treasure trove of stories and worlds just waiting to be explored! Find out more at bit.ly/DLA_2024 Brought to you by @DubCityCouncil with kind support from @dubcilib and @DublinCityofLit



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📢 Acquisition news! UQP is delighted to announce that we acquired world rights to two new books from Tony Birch, a novel and a short story collection. 👉Read full announcement here: uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-acqui…

UQPbooks's tweet image. 📢 Acquisition news! UQP is delighted to announce that we acquired world rights to two new books from Tony Birch, a novel and a short story collection.

👉Read full announcement here:
uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-acqui…

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Congratulations to the UQP authors shortlisted for the 2023 #PMLitAwards! 📚 George Haddad #LosingFace, Rohan Lloyd #SavingtheReef, Rae White #ExactlyAsIAm, @the_shb #TheJaguar, Gavin Yuan Gao #AtTheAltarofTouch ow.ly/k4Af50Q0SyM

UQPbooks's tweet image. Congratulations to the UQP authors shortlisted for the 2023 #PMLitAwards!

📚 George Haddad #LosingFace, Rohan Lloyd #SavingtheReef, Rae White #ExactlyAsIAm, @the_shb  #TheJaguar, Gavin Yuan Gao #AtTheAltarofTouch 

ow.ly/k4Af50Q0SyM

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The following is a list, far from exhaustive, of some of the claims – made with varying degrees of sincerity or substance – that have helped define this frequently ugly campaign… Martin McKenzie-Murray delves into the “No” camp’s lies. #auspol satpa.pe/R9z4eqd


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My thoughts on Rupert Murdoch’s legacy? “Murdoch will be looked back on by historians as someone who used their media monopoly to influence the destabilisation of the Earth’s climate.” theguardian.com/media/2023/sep…


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