The Inkys Elluminated
Just back from the virtual Inkys longlist announcement. Using Elluminate was a great way to find out which ten titles will be in contention for each of the Golden and Silver Inkys in 2010. Several schools and their students participated and were able to comment in the chat room, although levels of security in some systems prevented many would-be attendees. We tweeted some of the titles, but fingers couldn’t fly fast enough for all. Fortunately the Inside a Dog website was pretty smart in uploading the page.
Here are the finalists. They will be whittled down to five (oops, three, even harder) in each category early in October in another virtual event.
Golden Inky (for Australian titles)
- Broken Glass (Adrian Stirling)
- Everything Beautiful (Simmone Howell)
- Into White Silence (Anthony Eaton)
- Jarvis 24 (David Metzenthen)
- My Candlelight Novel (Joanne Horniman)
- Screw Loose (Chris Wheat)
- The Beginner’s Guide to Living (Lia Hills)
- The Two Pearls of Wisdom (Alison Goodman)
- Where the Streets had a Name (Randa Abdel-Fattah)
- Worldshaker (Richard Harland)
Silver Inky (International titles)
- Exposure (Mal Peet)
- Girl at Sea (Maureen Johnson)
- If I Stay (Gayle Forman)
- Love, Aubrey (Suzanne La Fleur)
- Paper Towns (John Green)
- Skim (Mariko and Jillian Tamaki)
- Ten Mile River (Paul Griffin)
- The 10PM Question (Kate de Goldi)
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)
- The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
Now that lot took longer to type and link than to attend the launch! Strong lists – hard to whittle down.
All you need to know about voting and the awards process is here.
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