Thank you to all who entered our newsletter subscriber giveaway for Leanne Hall’s fabulous debut This Is Shyness. This Is Shyness, which Simmone Howell calls ‘a world-tilting romance full of comic-strip cool’, was the winner of the 2009 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing.

The winners of the giveaway have now been notified and are listed below. If you didn’t win on this occasion, never fear, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future.

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The winners:

Lucy Treloar

Stephanie Little

Doreen Sullivan

Lea McInerney

Louise Pine

Tessa Brierley

Elisa Terpos

Chris Miles

Betty Kostevski

Ian See