Articles tagged “young adult”
Text Publishing is doing a giveaway for a terrific new Australian series—The Rephaim by Paula Weston—in Melbourne on Tuesday 21 May.
Hot-blooded bad boy Rafa—a black-winged half-angel—will be giving out copies of book one in the series, Read more
Suddenly, it seems like gay characters are everywhere in YA literature. Or, if not everywhere, certainly in far more places and in a greater variety than ever before. On the state of LGBT characters in young adult fiction. (Read more
Submissions for the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing open today.
Alyssa Brugman is the author of several acclaimed and popular novels for young adults. Her new novel is Alex As Well, the confronting and heartfelt story of a teenager raised as a boy, who wants to be a girl.
The closing date for submissions for the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been extended from Friday 29 March to Wednesday 3 April.
We’ll be accepting entries from 4 March. Learn more about the Text Prize and download the entry form here.
We’re delighted to report that 11-year-old Dhruv Singh from Durack State School in Queensland has won our ‘I Became a Billionaire’ writing competition.
To celebrate the release of The Crystal Code, book four in Richard Newsome’s award-winning Billionaire series, we’re running a writing competition for students aged 10–13 years.
…AJ Betts, for Zac and Mia!
Zac and Mia opens in an oncology ward in Perth, where 17-year-old Zac is recovering from a bone marrow transplant for leukaemia.