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28 March 2009 |
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Congratulations Tracey Hawkins on the release of your book Martha’s Journey. Mr Andrew Barr, Minister for Education, will officially launch Martha on Saturday 28 March at 4pm. The event takes place at Paperchain Bookstore, 34 Franklin St in Manuka, ACT. I’ll be there for sure and will post some pictures on this site later. |
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| 31 March 2009 | |
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| The release of Something More, the eleventh title in the Girfriend series. | |
April 2009 |
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Just Imagine 2009 The Just Imagine exhibition run by Wollongong City Art Gallery will soon be launched and I’ve been invited to be their ‘Author in Residence’ this year. |
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| 1 April 2009 | |
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Further information about Boofheads and Something More can be found at these links this week. |
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Something More did make it to Bologna after all. Sandy Fussell was right. Allen & Unwin very kindly sent me the pictures and if the poster makes it back in one piece they are going to send it to me. How good is that? I’ll make some giant photocopies and every time my kid annoys me I’ll paste one over his favourite cricket poster. |
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I’ve been invited to be the blogger in residence on insideadog. Of course I agreed. Click here www.insideadog.com.au |
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Had a great day at the launch of Tracey Hawkin’s book Martha’s Journey. The book store was crowded and she was kept busy signing for hours. |
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| 2 April 2009 | |
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On Tuesday at 12 noon the Children’s Book Council of Australia announced its Shortlist and Notable books of the year for 2009. Massive congrats to Sandy Fussell on Polar Boy being shortlisted in the six books for the Younger Readers category. For more info about Sandy, check out her websites under LINKS. Boofheads was named as a Notable book for 2009 in the Books For Older Readers. Not bad for a first book, especially when the shortlist included outstanding writers Melina Marchetta, Jackie French, Anthony Earl, David Cornish and James Moloney. For the full Short List and Notables for 2009 click here. |
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| Off to Melbourne in the last week of May to the Vic state Library’s Reading Matters Conference. I will be on panels with amazing and experienced authors over the three days and will also give a five minute reading from Boofheads. That’s the one I’m dreading. I hate reading my own work. Am agonising over which part to read. Email me if you have any suggestions. | |
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| May 21 2009 | |
| On Thursday May 21st I’m off to the CBCA NSW International dinner with overseas authors, MT Anderson and Mal Peet. The latter has been a hero of mine since I taught his book Keeper to a Year Nine class a couple of years ago. Both a Walker Book authors like me so hopefully I’ll get a chance to stutter hello and gush something dumb about how much I love his work. | |
.Something More, along with some of the other books in A&U’s Girlfriend series will be published in Turkey. How Bazaar! |
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| June 22 2009 | |
On Monday the 22 June I will be speaking at Glebe library about the HSC topic Belonging and why I think Boofheads has recently been put on the additional reading material list for HSC English in NSW. |
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July 1 2009 |
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Literary Lunch The following children’s authors and illustrators will be guests at the Illawarra-South Coast CBCA children’s literary lunch on Wednesday 1 July: Dave (Cartoon Dave) Hackett (who will present a cartooning workshop), Kate Forsyth, Sue Whiting, Bill Condon, Sandy Fussell, Richard Harland, William Kostakis, Moya Simons, Felicity Pulman, Bruce Whatley and me. |
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August 2009 |
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On April 2nd I had a great time working with teachers in the Illawarra at Wollongong City Art Gallery. The exhibition, Just Imagine is a series of 12 Art works on view for school groups and the general public. The gallery runs a creative writing competition — an imaginative response to one of the art works of your choice and winners will be announced at the exhibition’s closing ceremony on August 2nd 2009, which I will open. |
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October 2009 |
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| Thanks to the May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust, I will be spending October in Brisbane working on my third YA novel. I was lucky enough to win one of their fellowships this year and can’t wait to get to work. | |
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