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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-…

@sam_grumont Love these Sam!

I’ve been painting small on postcard size greeting cards I made. An enjoyable process. #greetingcards #aquarelle #watercolourpainting

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

👏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.

⭐️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

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

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

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! ❤️📚😃

‘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!

🎉 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

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.

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…

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/…

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…

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…

Nonfiction to look out for in 2024 theguardian.com/books/2024/jan…

📢 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…

@LaTrioli @Qantas One job…

Sydney-Melbourne @Qantas flight this morn delayed, then delayed again, then slowed down by ATC, then plane moved incorrectly into landing bay and had to be towed back out to meet aerobridge and now they can’t find our bags.

@joellegergis The Five of My Life with Nigel Marsh

Fractured knee is getting me down. Movie, book and podcast recommendations please!

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