Every Friday we post a quick link to the website of an Australian author or illustrator. Today’s spotlight is on … [cue fanfare] … BRENTON E. MCKENNA. Brenton E. McKenna lives in Broome and has loved comics all his life. His first graphic novel Ubby’s Underdogs: The Legend of the Phoenix Dragon is launched tonight [...]
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The Perth Writers’ Festival is happening at UWA next week from 3-7 March. Family Day is Sunday 6 March with talks and workshops from children’s authors and illustrators and fun activities and entertainment for all the family. One session not be missed is The Born Storytellers book launch. Seven books with stories by 91 young [...]
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Join us to hear twenty WA authors and illustrators talk about their books published in 2010 Cost: $20 members, $25 non-members RSVP: Jenni Woodroffe –jennij@iinet.net.au– Sponsors for this CBCA event
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We hope you’re enjoying the new year. The WA Branch of CBCA has a full program planned for 2011. Two upcoming events are not to be missed. Perth Writers Festival 3-7 March 2011 Family Day is on Sunday 6 March with talks and workshops from children’s authors and illustrators and fun activities and entertainment for [...]
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It’s a month until Children’s Book Week. We hope your preparations are progressing well. The National Library, as publisher of two of this year’s shortlisted books, Lost! A True Tale from the Bush and Australian Backyard Explorer, has given copyright permission for public and school libraries to use the books during CBW for readers theatre, [...]
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On Sunday week, 27 June the inaugural Bookwiz is happening. If you and your children know children’s books, authors and illustrators, this is the place to prove yourself. A fun book-based quiz in the style of the ABC’s Spicks & Specks. Bring family and friends and meet local authors and illustrators. MC: Vincenzo Perrella Where: [...]
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If you read the WA Branch Newsletter you will know about Jon Doust’s lamentation at A Night With Our Stars that Boy on a Wire had won no awards. Perhaps a Miles Franklin judge was in the audience and heard Glenn Swift assure us, “It’s very good” because not long after that evening Boy on [...]
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And now, she rides the wind of memory and enters the realm of pure story, like those wonderful, unforgettable spirits – those shadows of time – above the land she loved so much – Mark Macleod Sadly for Australia’s literary heritage Patricia Wrightson died on Wednesday 24 March 2010. Jan Nicholls WA Branch President of [...]
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A Night with our Stars on Thursday was a glittering success and more blogging of the evening’s delights is to come (because I took too many notes for one post) and there will be an article in the next WA Branch newsletter. One of our Stars, Geoff Havel, reminded everyone of the West Australian Young [...]
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The State Library of WA is seeking Expressions of Interest for appropriately qualified and/or experienced people to participate in a judging panel for the 2008 and 2009 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. Application guidelines are included in the EOI document and further information on the awards can be found at http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/pba.html Applications close COB 10 [...]
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