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25.01.2022 The BUMPER eNews for Friends of the Cairns Tropical Writers Festival. CLICK. https://bit.ly/2RPpOzS If you didn't get this Jan 2020 eNews directly into your inbox, then please contact us to be added so you don't miss out on the latest. ... https://bit.ly/2RPpOzS

25.01.2022 Writing from your life. LOOK OR BOOK HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/life-writing-workshop-with-

25.01.2022 BBC: Recommended reads for September. http://www.bbc.com//story/20190823-10-books-to-read-in-sep

24.01.2022 Amazing Greys ~ read more about these 6 amazing speakers coming to tell stories at this Seniors Week Lunch on Sun 25 August here: https://amazingreys.com/

24.01.2022 Goodbye Winter. Spring into Spring with the latest eNewsletter now. Let us know if you want to subscribe directly via your in-box. Click for more . . . ... https://bit.ly/2LcDjrd

24.01.2022 Click for the latest eNews for Friends of the Cairns Tropical Writers Festival. https://mailchi.mp//may-2020-enews-for-friends-of-cairns-t

23.01.2022 #AuthorsforFireys is trending across social media right now. Look it up on Google to see how authors are auctioning their books to raise $$$ for Rural Fire Service.

21.01.2022 L’un des montages les plus forts que je n’ai vus depuis longtemps...

20.01.2022 Register to catch this free event. 12.30 Tuesday 11 August 2020. ZOOM TALK Gods and Demons with Deborah Cassrels... https://smsa.org.au//eve/gods-and-demons-deborah-cassrels/

20.01.2022 This is sooo fun! Vote for your own favourite books of 2019. Nice way to remind yourself of some little beauties you meant to read, but forgotten to get hold of too. https://www.booktopia.com.au/favourite-austr/promo3091.html

19.01.2022 MILES FRANKLIN ONLINE. If you missed the announcement live, this link still works. Join the 2020 Miles Franklin Award WINNER announcement at 4.00pm today, with Cassie McCullagh from ABC Radio’s The Bookshelf program.... The 2020 winner will receive $60,000 in prize money for the novel judged as being ‘of the highest literary merit’ and which presents ‘Australian life in any of its phases’. This year's Shortlist: Tony Birch, The White Girl - University of Queensland Press Peggy Frew, Islands - Allen & Unwin Books John Hughes, No One - UWA Publishing Philip Salom, The Returns - Transit Lounge Publishing Carrie Tiffany, Exploded View - Text Publishing Tara June Winch, The Yield - Penguin Random House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzWUffW2It0&feature=youtu.be

17.01.2022 HAPPY INDIGENOUS LITERACY DAY! Today, we share an important story told by the communities that we work with. A story that celebrates the joy, excitement and pow...er of the books children in remote communities are creating. To support Indigenous Literacy Day, donate here now so every child has equal access to books in their language: go.ilf.org.au/donate See more

14.01.2022 Congratulations to the eight finalists in the running for The Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award! Vote now for your favourite Queensland book! https://bit.ly/34aKhEF

11.01.2022 For the first time, ABC RN devoted an entire weekend in June to a celebration of books, readers and writing. There were wonderful and inspiring conversations with some of the best writers from here and around the world. OK, so you missed it, right ? But, but , but . . . here's the link to all sessions. ... So enjoy ! ABC Book Club https://www.abc.net.au/radionational//big-weekend-of-books/

10.01.2022 Helen Garner is on Guardian Book Club this Friday 6 Nov 2020. You can register to watch here. https://australiaathome.com.au//guardian-australias-book-c

10.01.2022 LAST CHANCE to book for these two events in Cairns 12 and 15 February, part of Cairns Tropical Writers Festival year-round events. Bjelke Blues Stories of Repression and Resistance in Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s QLD 1968 1987. FREE author's talk with Editor Edwina Shaw and 3 of the local contributors. More: https://bit.ly/2vFEbze... Life Writing Workshop with Edwina Shaw Sat 15 Feb. More: https://bit.ly/393GcUs

10.01.2022 To write a great picture book...you need to get the words just right.’ Damon Young, author of MY DAD IS A DRAGON, shares his picture book writing tips in The Australian. University of Queensland Press SCBWI Australia East & New Zealand Before you write a word, ask yourself: What kind of children’s picture book do I want to read? Celebratory? Silly? Poignant? Thrilling? Then ask: What books already do this well, and how is mine better? (Yes, better. You may as well be ambitiou...s.) Put aside at least six months from start to finish. Picture books seem easy because they’re short. And some rely on illustrations more than words. But to write a great picture book (remember that ambition) you need to get the words just right. It’s not a huge impressionist canvas, it’s a Persian miniature. Obviously you’ll have your own style, but my picture books all feature three things: rhyme, alliteration and rhythm. These give the work a musical power. This helps kids, making the books easy and fun for them to say aloud. It also helps parents, carers and teachers avoid boredom, as they read the same books every night. After a long day, nobody wants to be yawning over dull phrases. Who’ll be reading your picture books? If your answer is lots of different people, then try to include lots of different people in them. If you’re not an artist, your publisher will usually find an illustrator for you. Think of them as your partner, not as your hired help. Your picture book will be better when you work together with the editors, tweaking as you go. If this all seems overwhelming, remember this vision: a child sitting on someone’s lap, enchanted by your words. Damon Young is an author and philosopher. Reproduced from The Australian 31 August 2019 (usually behind the paywall)

07.01.2022 Totally BUMPER eNews edition for Friends of the Cairns Tropical Writers Festival, out just NOW. Click link for more. Happy browsing. https://bit.ly/2maHjOR

06.01.2022 The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) is delighted to announce the longlist for the 2019 Colin Roderick Award. 15 amazing titles have made this years' cut. Congratulations to all of our 2019 longlisted authors! www.jcu.edu.au/fals/colin-roderick-award

05.01.2022 Latest eNews for Friends of Cairns Tropical Writers Festival - 25 September 2020 Feel free to Share. https://mailchi.mp//enews-for-friends-of-cairns-tropical-w

05.01.2022 In Memorium. Author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. Her 1987 book Beloved told the story of a runaway female slave and was made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey in 1998.... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49254776

05.01.2022 Cairns Post story - Barbara and Elliot Hannay are two of the Amazing Greys speaking at the Seniors Week lunch this Sunday at Rydges Esplanade. MORE ON 6 SPEAKERS & MC: https://amazingreys.com/speakers/... BOOKINGS: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amazing-greys-seniors-week-

04.01.2022 Well, that's all sorted. Make sure you Like and Follow this page, and feel free to post a picture of your own current books pile. University of Queensland Pres...s Black Ink Scribe Publications Pan Macmillan Hachette Australia Books Penguin Random House Simon & Schuster Text Publishing Magabala Books Giramondo Publishing See more

02.01.2022 Now for something completely different. Pour yourself a glass of vino or your preferred beverage depending on where you are in the world and join us tonight fo...r the . . . Asia Pacific Writers & Translators and New York Writers Workshop reading series event Isolation Break v.6. What a line up! In this edition. Join T.S. Eliot Prize winning poet and memoirist . . . George Szirtes , Moth International Short Story Award winner and novelist Mandy Beaumon poet, columnist for the Financial Express and cofounder of The Indian Novels Collective Ashwani Kumar, 2020 Varuna Fellowship winner and Queensland Premier's Award nominated playwright Emilie Collyer, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow Himalayan poet Yuyutsu Sharma . Hosted by Pushcart Prize winning poet and memoirist Ravi Shankar APWT / NYWW Isolation Breaks are archived on YouTube and open to all. Click on this link to get a reminder when the event goes live: https://www.facebook.com/137962856262442/posts/3532451040146