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What’s your favourite book and which cocktail would you serve along with it? With the Great Big Book Club Tea Party just around the corner, Afternoons with Harvey Beam author Carrie Cox tells us a bit about why she wrote her entire book in a library, and which cocktail she’d serve to her book club guests.
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Award-winning children’s author James Foley will kick-off a tour of Sydney and Melbourne on 24-Hour Comics Day on Saturday 6 October and end it at Kids Book Fest in Fitzroy on Saturday 13 October. In between he’ll be in bookstores teaching kids how to make their own comic creations while launching his latest book Gastronauts.
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Meet Me at the Intersection will be launched at the Wheeler Centre on Tuesday 11 September. Edited by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Rebecca Lim, the book is an anthology of young adult writing that brings together a diverse range of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability.
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Fremantle Press author Amanda Curtin will launch her book, Kathleen O’Connor of Paris, at the opening of a new exhibition of the artist’s works at Fremantle Arts Centre.
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Indigenous Literacy Day is in its twelfth year, with events across the entire country taking place on Wednesday 5 September. This year, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is hoping to raise more than $300,000 to provide over 30,000 books to remote Indigenous communities nation wide.
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The City of Fremantle has enhanced its reputation as a major supporter of the arts by renewing its sponsorship of one of WA’s most prestigious literary awards.
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Debut author and illustrator Ian Mutch will brighten up the walls of the State Library of Western Australia this October with an exhibition of artwork from his picture book More and More and More.
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Fremantle Press author Dianne Wolfer will be starring among the bright lights of Sydney when she appears at the Children’s Book Council of Australia New South Wales Branch 2018 Kids Book of the Year Event.
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Meet Me at the Intersection contributor Rafeif Ismail is a Perth-based, emerging Muslim writer who is a refugee from Sudan identifying as queer. She will be on a panel focusing on diversity at the Great Big Book Club Tea Party, an event co-hosted by the City of Melville and Fremantle Press at AH Bracks Library on 21 October.
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Keep your torchlight on and don’t wander from the campfire because this October we’re turning out the lights for our Great Big Dark and Spooky Book Read as part of AWESOME Festival 2018.
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