Articles tagged “young adult”
We’re delighted to announce the shortlist for this year’s Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing.
Zac and Mia by Amanda Betts (Perth) Zac and Mia opens in an oncology ward in Perth, where 17-year-old Zac is recovering from a bone marrow transplant for leukaemia.
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson is on the longlist for this year’s Green Carnation Prize, an annual award open to all LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) writers, celebrating the best of modern gay writing.
Congratulations to Maurice Gee, whose YA novel The Limping Man has been shortlisted in the Young Adult category in the Read more
Many congratulations to Leon Davidson, whose fantastic history of the Anzacs on the Western Front, Zero Hour, won in the non-fiction category at last night’s New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.
Today marks the official start of the 2011 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. You have until 3 June to finish your manuscript and get it in to us for consideration for this year’s Prize.
The winner of the 2010 Text Prize was the post-apocalyptic action novel Read more
This week’s Friday Book Club pick is John Marsden’s brilliant take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
We know the story. Hamlet’s father has just died. By the time they’ve filled in the grave his mother has remarried. Hamlet suspects foul play, and it’s troubling his spirit.
Leon Davidson’s Zero Hour: Anzacs on the Western Front has been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year in the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books category.
Bernard Beckett, author of the award-winning Genesis and August (out on Monday), will be giving the keynote speech at the relaunch for the Centre for Youth Literature’s website, insideadog.com.au.
This week saw the jubilee conference for the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. Text went along to gain invaluable face-to-face time with teachers, and also ran a competition to give away a class set of The Unidentified by Rae Mariz.
The Centre for Youth Literature has now announced the shortlists for the Gold (Australian) and the Silver (International) Inkys. Voting is now open for readers aged between 12 and 20.
We’re thrilled that Will Grayson, Will Grayson has been shortlisted for the Silver Inky.
