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Want to be in a Text book trailer?

Did you love Shadows, book one in Paula Weston’s gripping paranormal series, The Rephaim?

If so—we need your help to make a fun book trailer.

Text Publishing is making a short video to celebrate the release of book two in the series, Read more

Calling all paranormal fiction fans!

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

Today, Elsewhere

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

The 2013 Text Prize Opens Today

Submissions for the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing open today.

Paula Weston’s UK Blog Tour

The first book in Paula Weston’s Rephaim series, Shadows, has just been published in the UK and Paula is touring some excellent UK blogs in support of the launch.

Alyssa Brugman and Alex As Well

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.

Deadline for the 2013 Text Prize extended

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.

Queensland student wins Billionaire competition!

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.

What would you do if you were a billionaire?

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.

And the winner of the 2012 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing is…

…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.

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