Articles tagged “young adult”
The Centre for Youth Literature has just announced the longlist for the 2010 Inkys. The Inkys are awards for teenage literature voted for by readers.
Twelve months ago Leanne Hall drew the team at Text into the dark city of Shyness, when she won the 2009 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing with her novel This Is Shyness. Now it’s out and you too can follow Wolfboy and Wildgirl into the eternal night.
Richard Newsome, the author of The Billionaire Trilogy, has been receiving the rockstar treatment from kids up and down the east coast.
The first instalment in the series, The Billionaire’s Curse, won the inaugural Read more
Subscribe to Text’s monthly enewsletter by Friday 25 June to win one of fifty copies of The Radleys or fifty copies of The Emerald Casket.
Time is running out to get your entries in for the 2010 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. Submissions close on Friday 4 June so get busy tidying those manuscripts and give us a chance to uncover your genius.
It’s here again. That time of the year where we knuckle down to the very serious task of unearthing great writing for young adults and children.
Entries are now open for The $10,000 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. Visit the Read more
Wow, that was quick. Thank you to all who responded to our ‘breaking news’ newsletter and entered the competition to win a copy of Lia Hills' fabulous The Beginner’s Guide to Living.
The shortlists for the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards have been announced and we are extremely pleased to see The Beginner’s Guide to Living, Lia Hills' wonderful, philosophical debut novel, is shortlisted in the Young Adult Fiction Category.
‘Lia Hills is a strong new voice.
Thanks to all who emailed us and signed up for our upcoming quarterly updates on Text’s young adult and children’s list.
Text Publishing has a great line-up of young adult & children’s literature in 2010, including new books from established authors such as Leon Davidson, Maurice Gee, Richard Newsome and Tim Pegler. Newer to Australian readers are novels from the fantastic US authors Read more
