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 Book Now to Beat the Price Rise for 2018
The dates for CBCA Book Week 2018 have been announced - Friday 17 August to Friday 24 August, with the theme of Find Your Treasure.
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA), is currently reviewing the standard fees for speakers, so our prices will rise in 2018 - by how much at this stage we are not sure.
What's the Good News? To beat the price rise, any bookings secured and locked in during Term 4 of 2017 will be costed at the current rates. Contact Speakers Ink today for all your 2018 booking requirements.
Voices on the Move
Our Touring Speakers page has now been updated with details of who will be travelling during 2018 - some speakers coming to Brisbane and some speakers visiting other areas. Check out all the up-to-date details on our Touring Speakers here. Those travelling between now until the middle of 2018 are:
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NSW-based author Tim Harris will be in Brisbane for the week commencing Monday, 5 March, 2018. Tim has one day left available - Friday, 9 March.
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NSW-based author Deborah Abela will be in Brisbane for the week commencing Monday, 14 May AND the week commencing Monday, 27 August, 2018.
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Victorian-based author Goldie Alexander will be in Brisbane for the week commencing Monday, 21 May, 2018.
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Liz Anelli will be touring Brisbane from NSW from 20-23 November, 2017 and Kakadu from 2-6 April 2018.
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Kathryn Apel will be touring Brisbane from 12-16 February, 2018
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Kim Michelle Toft will be touring Tasmania - dates available being Monday, 26th to Wednesday, 28th February AND Monday, 5th to Wednesday, 7th March, 2018.
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Aleesah Darlison will be touring to Adelaide (and surrounding suburbs) SA 9-13 April, 2018 and the Mackay Region, QLD 4-8 June, 2018.
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The Spotlight is on
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Deborah Abela, who will be touring Brisbane from New South Wales the weeks commencing Monday, 14th May AND Monday, 27th August, 2018.
Deborah trained as a teacher and completed a BA (Comm) to combine her passions of teaching and writing. She became writer / producer of a national children’s TV show at Network TEN before leaving to write over 20 novels, including the Max Remy and Jasper Zammitt series, Grimsdon and New City, about kids living in a climate-changed world. Teresa: A New Australian was inspired by her dad who migrated from Europe to Australia after the devastation of WW2 and The Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee is about a shy, brilliant speller and whose family encourage her to overcome her fears and enter the world’s greatest bee. Her latest book is Wolfie, An Unlikely Hero, a picture book about a wolf who desperately wants to be a hero.
Deborah engaged the students from the moment she was introduced. She is a dynamic presenter and the students and teachers who attended her presentations have given me excellent feedback. Deborah's books are now being greatly sought after to borrow as the students were inspired by her visit.
Wooloowin State School - August, 2017
As always, to book Touring Speakers, please visit our website.
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Congratulations!
We are very proud here at Speakers Ink of all our authors, illustrators, poets, performance artists and motivational speakers.
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Chris Collin, whose book Funky Chicken: a Bushy Tale of Crocs and Chooks has been translated into simplified Chinese and will be distributed throughout mainland China.
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Gus Gordon, whose book Somewhere Else has won the Speech Pathology Australia’s best book (5-8 years) Award for 2017.
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What's Happening?
Somerset Celebration of Literature
The Somerset National Novella Writing Competition is open to all Australian high school students and there are some fantastic prizes on offer!
Here's what the competition entails:
Write a novella of between 8,000 and 20,000 words
Submit it by 1 December 2017
Have it judged by an expert panel
Winners from each State will be flown to the Gold Coast to enjoy the Somerset Celebration of Literature in March 2018 and will also receive a cash prize
On top of the prize for being a State winner, the National winner also receives a first prize of $2,500, as well as a full editorial report from Penguin Random House (Australia)
The Somerset National Novella Writing Competition is proudly sponsored Penguin Random House (Australia).
"Literacy is the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realise his or her full potential." - Kofi Annan
Yours in promoting literacy from all at the Speakers Ink team,
Sandie, Helen, Margie, Anna, Jan, Rob and James
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