Northern Books

Northern Books - bringing literary events to readers and writers across Victoria. Passionate about promoting Australian authors, great books and reading.

[National Centre ACL @NatCentAusChLit]

A gem short video (7min) exploring and appreciating the landscape with unique Trace Balla creator of graphic novels like no others. Her latest book is 'Leaf-light' @AllenAndUnwin https://t.co/1sixamNFqg

[Northern Books @BooksNorthern]

@sam_grumont Love these Sam!

[Joy Lawn @joylawn1]

My interview with #sallyrippin new #australianchildrenslaureate in the #weekendaustralianreview Sally is Australia’s biggest selling author of #childrensbooks & reading advocate. ⁦@DMCPRmedia⁩ ⁦@HardieGrantCP⁩ #allkidscanbereaders #pollyandbuster

[National Centre ACL @NatCentAusChLit]

👏Congrats to Australia's amazing Indigenous Literacy Foundation @IndigenousLF Their much-loved book and character, Moli det bigibigi, has a sequel! Written in Kriol and English and based on a true story, it follows the adventures of a real- life pig called Moli.

[Children's Laureate Foundation @Ozlaureate]

⭐️ATTENTION SCHOOLS
Sign up today to join new Australian Children's Laureate Sally Rippin for her official program launch.

It's FREE ... LIVE... and ONLINE
➡️Tuesday, 20 February 2024
➡️11–11.45am AEDT

REGISTER ➡️https://t.co/w8vrknVih7
@aslanational @PETAAConnect #sallyrippin

[The Wheeler Centre @wheelercentre]

Just over two weeks to go until applications close for The Wheeler Centre's Hot Desk Fellowships. Be sure to get your 500-word writing sample and full application in by 5pm AEDT, Monday 26 February. Learn more about how to apply below. https://t.co/ryaXh1YZrW

[SimonSchusterANZ @SimonSchusterAU]

Publisher-at-Large Dr @AnitaHeiss is thrilled to announce that her second acquisition under her Simon & Schuster Bundyi imprint is A Song of Time by author, media commentator and public intellectual, Stan Grant.

https://t.co/VTQQZZXGYp

Photo credit @ Kathy Luu

[Matt Cosgrove Books @MrMattCosgrove]

The new Australian Children’s Laureate has just been announced! Congratulations Sally Rippin. What a legend! And love her mission statement: All kids can be readers! ❤️📚😃

[Giramondo Publishing @GiramondoBooks]

‘My main advice [to aspiring writers] is write for yourself. Don't think about your readership, your audience. And listen to your own creative instincts, too.’ — Grace Yee (@nolotusblossom), #VPLA2024

It’s not too often that a poet gets on @ABCTV’s News Breakfast program!

[UQPBooks @UQPbooks]

🎉 Congratulations Ellen van Neerven and Melissa Lucashenko for their wins tonight at the 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards! @wheelercentre

🏆 Prize for Fiction: 'Edenglassie' by Melissa Lucashenko
🏆Prize for Non-Fiction: 'Personal Score' by Ellen van Neerven

[Abbey's Bookshop @abbeysbookshop]

The Indie Book Awards 2024 shortlist has announced the finalists for the Fiction, Non-Fiction, Debut Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction, Children's and Young Adult categories. The category winners and the Overall Book Of the Year winner will be announced on Monday 25 March.

[National Centre ACL @NatCentAusChLit]

This is so important - books read as children change lives forever. Michael Morpurgo backs call to ensure poorer children have access to books https://t.co/zN7jzGcnuK

[Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk]

Deal news! Delighted to share that @catherinefmilne at @HarperCollinsAU has acquired @PaulDalgarno’s third novel, “The Travelling Library”, for 2026 pub! https://t.co/0J1zStqdnI

[Australian Book Review @AustBookReview]

Just published! Open access!

ABR Podcast featuring the five shortlisted poems (as read by the poets) in the 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize | @nataliednapo @judith_nangala @dzenanabanana @packetofchips #merediortega

https://t.co/9P0z8B7GMT

[State Library of NSW @statelibrarynsw]

Congratulations to @RobbieArnott for making the longlist!

The Library nominated his novel ‘Limberlost’ for the 2024 @DublinLitAward.

“An extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and kindness, blood ties and love.” – @text_publishing

https://t.co/MxxElP8xPP

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

Nonfiction to look out for in 2024 https://t.co/hDeNMlnlQ9

[UQPBooks @UQPbooks]

📢 Acquisition news! UQP is delighted to announce that we acquired world rights to two new books from Tony Birch, a novel and a short story collection.

👉Read full announcement here:
https://t.co/ISJNtU43CT

[Northern Books @BooksNorthern]

@LaTrioli @Qantas One job…

[Northern Books @BooksNorthern]

@joellegergis The Five of My Life with Nigel Marsh

[UQPBooks @UQPbooks]

Congratulations to the UQP authors shortlisted for the 2023 #PMLitAwards!

📚 George Haddad #LosingFace, Rohan Lloyd #SavingtheReef, Rae White #ExactlyAsIAm, @the_shb #TheJaguar, Gavin Yuan Gao #AtTheAltarofTouch

https://t.co/1uNpLkBZyH