It’s a big week for awards
On Thursday, the longlists for the Inky Awards will be announced in Melbourne. Are you going? We are, even though we are a continent away. Join in the announcement to learn which ten novels have made stage one of the Inky process – five Australian, five international – by following these instructions from Adele, one of the Inky judges. Easy peasy set up with a bit of downloading and testing of settings involved. Bring your students and an interactive whiteboard. It’s all happening at 1.15pm AEST, so that’s 11.15am on this side of the country. And if you are international, here’s a world clock to calculate your time. That’s Thursday (here in Australia).
The Inkys are a YA-specific award run by Melbourne’s amazing Centre for Youth Literature.
And on Friday, the winners of the 2009 CBCA Awards will at last be known. Although the focus is on winners on Friday, in the long term the other shortlisted titles and the Notable Books (effectively a longlist) are always worth keeping in mind. These are the last ones standing after hundreds of titles have been considered. The announcement of winners is at 12 noon AEST, so 10am local time. Watch twitter and of course, this space.
