SCBWI November

Yesterday was a bumper SCBWI meeting attended by almost 50 members and non-members. We meet four times a year at La Notte Restaurant in Lygon St Carlton in inner Melbourne. Speakers included Wendy Orr who talked about the process from book to film for her story,...

Pigeons Project fundraiser at Trades Hall

Thursday night Pigeons Project held a fundraiser at Trades Hall. The Pigeons Project is aimed at improving literacy and brings together authors and young writers in a collaborative story-writing project over 6 months. This year is the second year and we’re...

YABBA

The annual YABBA ceremony was held in Williamstown this year (a lot closer for me than last year’s Frankston). YABBA is 25 this year, a great achievement for these children’s choice book awards. It’s lovely to be part of them, seeing the children and...

FTCBG

The First Tuesday Children’s Book Group held its final meeting today for this, its first, year. Over the year we’ve looked at a wide variety of books: current and classic; commercial and literary, popular and obscure.Without fail, the books have generated...