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From the Blog
Entry for Mentorship extended
The entry date for the Book Links Mentorship has been extended to 17 September. Applicants are invited to submit a synopsis and the first two chapters or first 6000 words of a work of fiction for either junior or YA […]
Caroline Magerl Exhibition
Author/Illustrator Caroline Magerl will be in residence at The Lighthouse Toowoomba throughout October with an exhibition of illustrations and developmental drawings showing how Piano Fingers was created. Alongside the artwork, panels of works showing the roughs for the book will […]
Winner of the 2022 Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction is…
Cuckoo’s Flight by Wendy Orr has won the 2022 Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction. The win was announced at an online event attended by all the shortlisted authors, Mirranda Burton, Lorraine Marwood, Katrina Nannestad and Wendy Orr, and three of […]
A is for Activisim book list
At the recent Book Links’ Narelle Oliver Lecture with Dr Robn Sheahan-Bright, the topic covered was A is for Activism. To delve more in to this topic you can read the list of books referred to that have been added […]
Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction Shortlist
Shortlist for 2022 Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction announced! The results are in. Here, in alphabetical order, are the four shortlisted titles for this year’s Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction. The winner will be announced during […]
Longlists and Shortlists
2022 Longlist – Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction Book Links is proud to announce the 2022 Shortlist for the annual Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction. Eight stories from Australia have been chosen from more than thirty […]
Welcome to 2022
Book Links News Alert Welcome to 2022 all new members, renewing members and some past members. We have kept past members on the mailing list so they don’t miss out on the latest news, but we would love you to renew your […]
Winner of Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction
The Winner of the 2021 Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction is We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad, HarperCollins 2020 Three children find themselves in an epic struggle for survival, alone in East Prussia in the dying days […]
Meg McKinlay talks about writing historical fiction
‘When I’m drawn to historical fiction, I think it’s because of the empathic connections it enables between our contemporary lives and those of people in the past.’ – Meg McKinlay Meg McKinlay is a much awarded writer and poet of picture […]
Book Links annual lecture in children's literature
NARELLE OLIVER LECTURE
The Narelle Oliver Lecture was established in 2015 to raise the profile and value of children's literature, to stimulate discussion and disseminate the results of current research on children's literature. This is an annual event.
