Word of Mouth | Issue 16| 2018
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WORD OF MOUTH | ISSUE 16 | 2018 |
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New VoicesAfter saying our farewells to James Moloney, I would like to introduce you all to 4 new speakers that have agreed to join the Speakers Ink family - click on the links to look over their profile pages on our website!
Voices on the MoveWe have many speakers travelling during 2018 - some speakers are coming to Brisbane while others are visiting regional cities: for a complete list check out all the up-to-date details on our Touring Speakers page.
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The Spotlight is on...David Lovegrove |
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Pam's historical novel for children, Lizzie and Margaret Rose has just won the Society of Women Writers NSW award for a children's book in their 2018 awards. Pamela has over 100 titles to her credit. She has worked in advertising, as a pre-school teacher, and a freelance writer. She was a writer and producer of educational television, audio and multimedia for the Queensland Department of Education for 16 years, and now freelances in children's and young adult fiction and non-fiction; scriptwriting; and multimedia writing/designing. She has won a number of awards for her children's novels. |
Peter Carnavas
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Peter's children's novel The Elephant published by the University of Queensland Press, has won the Griffith University Children's Book award (part of the Queensland Literary Award) for 2018. |
Tamsin Janu
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Tamsin's children's novel, Figgy takes the City, published by Scholastic Australia has been shortlisted in the children's category for the Prime Ministers Literary Award 2018. |
Richard Yaxley
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Richard's young adult novel, This is my Song, published by Scholastic Australia, has been shortlisted in the Young Adult category of the Prime Ministers Literary Award 2018. |
Dates for your Diary
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24-26 February 2019 |
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Conference |
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6 April 2019 |
Jackie French, Jacqueline Harvey, Deborah Abela and Emma Quay |
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31 May - 2 June 2019 |
Children's Book Council of Australia 13th National Conference, Canberra. The theme is 'And Now They're Laughing' |
The Last Word
Allison Rushby is offering a one-hour talk in Term 4, 2018 and Term 1, 2019. Alison first delivered this talk at the Brisbane Writer's Festival in September 2018.
In her hour-long talk "Stay Weird, Stay Different and Write What you Love", Allison delves deeply into the tricky world of writing inspiration. She explains how listeners can tune in to their everyday environment in order to "spark" ideas that will get them writing and how the best writing always stems from a true sense of self.
Allison is the internationally-published author of over twenty novels. Her latest Middle Grade novels are The Mulberry Tree and the Davitt award-winning The Turnkey. A sequel to The Turnkey, titled The Seven Keys, will be published in 2019. Allison enjoys speaking to children in Years 3-7.
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis
Yours in promoting literacy from all at the Speakers Ink team,
Sandie, Margie, Jan, Trina, Lia, Rob and James
P: 07-30408-INK (465) | E: [email protected]
W: www.speakers-ink.com.au | ABN: 34 397 765 959 | follow us 
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