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Mmmm Melbourne

judij — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:05:48 +0000

It’s all happening in Melbourne today.

The Inkys winners will be announced a little later (we’ll let you know) have been announced* and The Wheeler Centre has been launched. You’ll be familiar with the name Wheeler in a Lonely Planet context, but now it lives for posterity as the renamed Melbourne Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas after generous funding by Maureen and Tony Wheeler.

You can follow the Centre’s activities on twitter or subscribe to an e-newsletter from the website.

Exciting stuff – trips to Melbourne need to be longer and longer to fit all the culture in. Lucky Melburnians.

* Silver Inky: The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)

Gold Inky – Where the Streets had a Name (Randa Abdel-Fattah). More here.

Inkys shortlist

judij — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:32:09 +0000

Here they are, the final ten titles – five Australian, five not.

Voting couldn’t be simpler. Head off here.

And the titles? Well in the Gold corner:

Broken Glass (Adrian Stirling)
Where the Streets had a Name (Randel Abdel-Fattah)
Jarvis 24 (David Metzenthen)
Worldshaker (Richard Harland)
Everything Beautiful (Simmone Howell)

And vying for the Silver Inky are:

Exposure (Mal Peet)
Skim (Mariko and Jillian Tamaki)
Paper Towns (John Green)
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)

If you would like to recall the longlist that these ten titles survived, we blogged it here.

The only rules: Voters must be aged under 20 and they can only vote once. But they can live anywhere in the world. Don’t forget the shelftalkers to get your students started.

Looking forward to the next round of the twitter wars between the survivor @realjohngreen and the vanquished @maureenjohnson although John just might accept victory gracefully.

The Inkys Elluminated

judij — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:36:18 +0000

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.

It’s a big week for awards

judij — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:43:12 +0000

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.

Inkys long list

judij — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:03:59 +0000

Hop over to the Inside a Dog website to see the titles of the 20 books that have been named on the long list for the Inky Awards.

The ten Australian and ten overseas contenders will be whittled down to 3 of each on 12 September, and the winner of the Golden Inky (Australian) and Silver Inky (overseas) will be announced on 6 November.

All the guidelines are on the web page but voting is restricted to those aged between 12 and 18 and can be done by SMS or email. Readers worldwide are encouraged to participate.

Such a strong long list presents many opportunities for English teachers and Teacher Librarians to promote wide reading. All are compelling reads so the selection of the short list will not be easy.

The site also has details of a Creative Reading competition and information for teachers and librarians.

This is the second year of the Inkys.

Meanwhile, over at Inside a Dog

judij — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:27:43 +0000

The Centre for Youth Literature’s website, Inside a Dog, is busy and about to get busier. James Roy has been writer in residence for a week now, and his blog is inviting students to comment on a variety of thoughts, including their favourite animal book. James will be around for a little longer on the site, so point your readers in his direction. While they are there, they could try writing a book review in haiku.

And the 2008 Inky Awards are being launched tomorrow. Now in their second year, these awards are looking for the teenage vote. Last year’s winners will be there - Simmone Howell (Notes from the Teenage Underground) in person and John Green (Looking for Alaska) via YouTube.

We’ll let you know the lists as soon as they are announced, but you can also subscribe to Read Alert, the blog from CYC to keep informed.