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Upcoming Events:
Special dates to mark in your diary for 2024 are:
- 23 November – Big Lit Quiz at Good News Lutheran School, Middle Park
Meetings:
Book Links meetings are held online via ZOOM, generally the Monday evening before the monthly Write Links meetings.
Email the secretary@booklinks.org.au for dates if you are interested in getting involved.
Write Links meetings are generally held on the first Saturday of the month at the State Library of Qld and online. Venues and dates can vary.
The general structure is generally:
● 1:00 pm – Networking
● 2:00 pm – Topic of interest or professional development
● 3.00-5.00 – Critique groups
Workshop meetings are also scattered throughout the year and on those days sessions can begin earlier.
Sometime there is a fee to attend to cover presenter fees.
The next Book Links meeting will be via ZOOM on Monday 28 October followed by Monday 2 December 2024.
If you wish to join in please email info@booklinks.org.au for a link.
The next Write Links meeting will be Saturday 2 November at SLQ. followed by the final meeting for the year on Saturday 7 December 2024.
The November Write Links meeting will be held at State Library of Qld, in Meeting room 1B on Saturday 2 November starting at 12:30pm. This will be a hybrid meeting. There will be a fee to attend this session except for critique groups. $15 for Book Links members, $25 for others.
The format will be:
- 12:30 pm Topic: The Hero’s Journey with Melanie Hill
- 1:30 pm Write Links Networking and Collective Wisdom
- 3:00 -5:00 Critiquing
In this session, Melanie Hill will present a session on The Hero’s Journey and use Neil Gaiman’s Coraline as an example. Please pre-read if you’d like to get a little more out of the workshop, and there will be spoilers.
Melanie Hill is an author, poet, Story Nerd podcaster, Certified Story Grid Editor, and Associate member of the Institute of Professional Editors. Born in Launceston, Tasmania, she manages four teenage children, a husband and two cats in Brisbane, Queensland.
She has finished a middle-grade performance story and writes a poem daily to sharpen her word choice precision. Melanie is also writing the second draft of a spy thriller novel and the first draft of a fairytale that’s been dropping hints for a while.
Melanie’s passions span middle-grade and young adult stories, spy stories, and fairy tales. She is also rapidly developing an interest in master detective novels. Her previous career as a logistics planner has honed my expertise in plotting and solving complex story problems.
Living by the motto “feel the fear and do it anyway,” Melanie confronts her fears daily and she’s dedicated to helping others overcome their plotting challenges.
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The Big Lit Quiz
Saturday 23 November – @Good News Lutheran School
Join us for an end of year party for the Kids Lit community with a quiz based on children’s literature from 12 pm – 3:30pm approx.
Form a team of four and join the fun for $25 per team member. You can make up a team on the day.
A delicious lunch including juice will be supplied. BYO alcoholic drinks. Win prizes and raffles.
RSVP by 20 Nov. BOOK HERE
We invite CBCA Qld, SCBWI, IBBY, QSLA, authors. illustrators, teachers, librarians, teacher-librarians, library technicians and any lovers of KidsLit to join us for lunch followed by rounds of quiz questions. Members of the highest scoring team each win a prize. Members of each round win book prizes.
Bring gold coins for the infamous Head and Tails competition.
If you have a pop-up banner for your organisation or yourself as a book creator, please feel free to bring along to add to a pop-up display!
Bring any books you have had published this year for a group photo.
Donations to the raffle and prize table welcome.
This is an adult event, but older children could come.
Proceeds to the IBBY Australia
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