Mentorship winner announced
The Inaugural Booklinks Mentorship was won by Debbie Kahl with her story ‘Gaijin Girl’. Debbie was over the moon with her win and rushed off immediately to phone her mother. At the opening of StoryArts Brisbane Conference, Robyn Sheahan-Bright, mentor, congratulated
The Big Lit Quiz 2019
The Big Lit Quiz 2019 Join us for an end of year party for the Kids Lit community with a quiz based on children's literature. Sunday 24th November from noon to about 3.30pm. Manly State School, 63 Ernest St, Manly Proceeds to
Change in editors for Wombat Books at BSAB
Rochelle Manners is pleased to be joining Book Links StoryArts Brisbane (BSAB) in 2019. She will be providing her insights into the industry on the publishing panel as well as the first pages session at the conference. Rochelle will be
StoryArts Brisbane is fast approaching
StoryArts Brisbane Conference Book Links is proud to present StoryArts Brisbane. The program will be held at the State Library of Qld 19-20 October, 2019. The two day conference for writers, illustrators, tertiary students, teachers and librarians promotes excellence in children’s literature. Participants will
Children’s Story Art: an exhibition of local children’s book illustrators
The works of three prominent artists in the field of children's literature will be on view and for sale at the Richard Randall Art Studio, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha from Wednesday 9 - Sunday 13 October from 10am -
Rebecca Johnson Workshop and AGM
Get prepared for StoryArts Brisbane! Rebecca Johnson will speak about how she became a writer and what inspired it, her very different writing style from many other authors and how this has allowed her to be able to find the balance
Book Week Events
Reminder The short story writing competition for children closes 31 August, 2019. Don’t forget to tell your young writers to get their stories in to have a chance to win $100. More information here Book Week Events Josie Montano and ‘The Secret Science Society’ 24
StoryArts Brisbane Feedback Sessions
Pitch Before you Send Your Manuscript for Feedback Are you coming to StoryArts Brisbane and need to get feedback on your work? Then read on… We are doing things a little differently at StoryArts Brisbane. In addition to submitting your manuscripts for feedback, we
Upcoming Events
There are a number of Book Links events coming up in July for both young people and the general public. Young Writers Workshop This is a workshop on writing short stories which can later be entered into the Story Links short story
Bruce Pascoe delivers the 2019 Narelle Oliver Lecture
With both auditorium 1 and 2 of the State Library of Queensland filled, this was the most well-attended Lecture of Children’s Literature, featuring Australian Aboriginal author, Bruce Pascoe who is an accomplished writer, editor, publisher and anthologist. He has Bunurong