ACLAR

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📢A/Prof Sue Chen interviewing graphic novelist Mark Crilley – Registration link below ⬇️ 📅Date: Friday 8 November ⌚Time: 10:30am (AEST) Registration: eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-lo… (4/4)

His latest book, The Mighty Onion, was selected as one of Amazon’s Best Books of April 2024. His work has been featured in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, & on CNN Headline News. His popular YouTube videos have been viewed more than 400mil. times. (3/4)

ACLAR board member A/Prof Sue Chen will be interviewing graphic novelist Mark Crilley about his book Lost in Taiwan on 8 November at 10:30 AM (AEST) on Zoom. Please feel free to pass this invitation along to anyone who might be interested. (🧵- 1/4)

📢 ACLAR Conference CFP extended 📢 The submission date for abstracts for the 2024 ACLAR Conference has been extended to 15 March 2024. Theme: Children’s Literature and Whenua (the land) 📍 University of Waikato, Hamilton New Zealand 📅 27-30 Nov 2024 aclarlit.org/conferences/?f…

📢2024 ACLAR Conference📢 The biennial ACLAR Conference will take place at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 27-30 November 2024. The conference theme is Children’s Literature and Whenua (the land). You can read more here: aclarlit.org/conferences/?f… CFP closes 15/2.

Join us for the ACLAR Lunchtime Seminar series TOMORROW! Kit Kavanagh-Ryan (Deakin University) is presenting 'Crip worldbuilding: Representing disability in young adult speculative fiction' 📌Thursday 30/11 📌12:30 pm AEDT | 2:30 pm NZDT | 9:30 am AWST 📌charlessturt.zoom.us/j/67966532469

📢CFP📢 The 2024 ACLAR Conference will be held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, from 27-30 November 2024. The conference theme is Children’s Literature and Whenua (the land). The deadline for abstracts is 15/2/24. More info available: aclarlit.org/conferences/

A new issue of Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature has now been published! You can access the issue here: ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/pecl… Thank you and congratulations to Papers editors and contributors!

Finalists for the seven categories in the 2023 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (NZCYA) have been announced! You can read more here: nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-bo… 🏆📚

Dr Helen Adam (Edith Cowan University, Australia) will be presenting a Zoom lecture titled ‘The overwhelmingly white, middle-class & heteronormative world of award winning picture books in Australia’. Date/time: Thursday 15 June, 2023 · 1pm – 2pm (NZST) · 11am-1pm (AEST) 💻

...and Natalie Hsieh (Second-year Phd researcher at the University of Glasgow), who will be discussing Growing Up in the Diaspora: Hybrid Identities in Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature.

Dr Tessa Thorniley (Research Associate at University of Westminster [School of Media & Communications]), who will be discussing Chiang Yee's Children 's Books and Representations of China in Wartime Britain (🧵):

The British Chinese Studies Network will be hosting a talk discussing ‘Representations of China in British Children's and Young Adult Fiction’ ⏰May 25 (9pm AEDT) 💻Join via Teams using Meeting ID: 361 914 902 973 and Passcode: td9LKj (🧵):

ACLAR is excited to share news about a new journal! 🎉 Leaf Journal is a UK-based Children’s Literature and Writing journal. Leaf Journal has recently published its first issue, which you can access here: leafjournal.org

Call for Papers! Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature seeks contributions for a special issue on War and Displacement in literature for children and youth. Deadline: 10.01.23. #Bookbird #CallForPapers #ChildrensLiterature

The deadline for submissions to the 2022 conference issue of Papers has been extended to Mon 21 Nov. Presenters are invited to submit essays of 5000-7000 words developed from their conference paper. Visit the website for further submission details!

Working on our queer YA research project has been one of the most rewarding experiences I've had as an academic! @BettsDN & my new article is out: Queering the Book Club: Empathy Development Through Young Adult Literature in Australian Discussion Groups link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The new issue of International Research in Children's Literature is out. Read about: - Reading and Authoring Young Adult Transmedia Storyworlds - Articulate Silence: Books and Readers in Jason Chin’s Coral Reefs and Redwoods And more! euppublishing.com/toc/ircl/15/2