
🌈✏️👭 Gay writer lady | winner of @textpubYA’s Text Prize | Dancing Barefoot out now
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TODAY'S THE DAY: Dancing Barefoot is making its way out into the world! This book has been a labour of love over the course of many years. I'm so proud and excited to finally share it with you all!
#LoveOzYA #QueerLit #QueerYA

ALT Alice Boyle, a light-skinned woman with dark hair, glasses, and wearing a striped t-shirt, is holding a copy of Dancing Barefoot and looking excited. The book has a reddish-pink and lilac cover and illustrations of the three main characters on the front. There's also a metallic silver stamp that shows that the book won the Text Prize.
I'm thrilled to announce that DANCING BAREFOOT has been shortlisted for the Readings Young Adult Prize 2023! My queer little book is in stellar company, selected by a brilliant team of booksellers. Thank you @ReadingsBooks!
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DANCING BAREFOOT has been shortlisted for the 2023 Readings Young Adult Prize! This queer romance is set in Melbourne and filled with diverse characters, musical references and heart.
Congratulations @AliceBwrites 🥳✨
@ReadingsBooks #DancingBarefoot #AliceBoyle #ReadingsPrize
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The shortlist for the 2023 @ReadingsBooks Children’s Book Prize has been announced. Congratulations to the authors and illustrators of shortlisted titles. 👏 🎉🥳
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No matter what happens, I am proud of the brave lesbians who have defended our country from the British
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Live footage of me whenever I come into the office 🤭
#AllStars8 is now streaming on #ParamountPlus! 🩷
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Pride Book Club! Found a bunch of local titles on the library shelves to throw at/gently recommend to attendees tonight... What are your favorite queer Aussie novels? Are they in this stack?
Sydney Writers Festival was FAB! I talked about the evolution of the rom-com with the brilliant @NinaKenwood, Leanne Yong, and @JennaGuillaume and met some amazing young readers. Thank you @SydWritersFest for having me! #SWF
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How do you write characters with a different sexuality or gender identity to your own? @AliceBwrites: carefully and with great care. Research, talk to people with lived experience, sensitivity readers. @leannewrites: write with respect! #AllDayYA #LoveOzYA #SydneyWritersFestival
Alice Boyle retweeted
.@AliceBwrites: when you’re writing romance for young people you have a responsibility/duty of care in what you depict, for example in Dancing Barefoot there is consent asked for and answered clearly on the page. #AllDayYA #LoveOzYA #SydneyWritersFestival
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How do you make your #LoveOzYA rom-com stand out? @NinaKenwood and @AliceBwrites say authentic characters! @leannewrites adds write what is true to you - bringing elements of your voice and experiences to your story will make it shine #AllDayYA #SydneyWritersFestival
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#sydneywritersfestival @AliceBwrites says a love interest must be cute, but what people find attractive is different to what we're told we should want. They have to be interesting and flawed, with hidden depths. There needs to be more than just generically good looking
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#sydneywritersfestival @NinaKenwood feels that tropes are fun for marketing, but her tropes can't about from solving narrative problems. @AliceBwrites is less aware of tropes while writing and makes sure that there's conflict to advance the story
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It was important for @AliceBwrites to write “sexy” romance in Dancing Barefoot because traditional depictions of women loving women in #LoveOzYA have been more “soft” and “pretty”, somewhat sanitised, and she wanted to actively address that #AllDayYA #SydneyWritersFestival
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#sydneywritersfestival @AliceBwrites has seen queer romance and sexuality either presented as very innocent and sanitised or it's extra raunchy and edgy. Like it needs to be normalised
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.@AliceBwrites deliberately wrote Dancing Barefoot with a queer romance as the focus to actively address the lack of representation she saw growing up queer. All young queer readers deserve to see themselves reflected on the page! #AllDayYA #LoveOzYA #SydneyWritersFestival
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#sydneywritersfestival @AliceBwrites says that teenagers deal with some heavy things and it's important to reflect that on the page. Leanne looks at how the romance leads the protagonist forward on their journey. Does the love interest have their own arc?

















