Northern Books - bringing literary events to readers and writers across Victoria. Passionate about promoting Australian authors, great books and reading.
Castlemaine, Victoria
Joined July 2017
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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-to/…
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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
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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.
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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/t…
@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.
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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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🎉 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/20…
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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/ar…
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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
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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-l…
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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Nonfiction to look out for in 2024 theguardian.com/books/2024/j…
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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-acquires…
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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
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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.”
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ABR: What prompts a new poem?
AJ: The inability to absorb or let go of an experience, feeling or thought, and a suspicion that there might be a voice that could hold it, a vessel which could be useful in some way.
Poet of the Month with Andy Jackson
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