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Comment on The joys of reading as a child by westword

westword — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:07:13 +0000

Thanks, Sheryl! More to come soon.

Comment on The joys of reading as a child by Sheryl Gwyther

Sheryl Gwyther — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:03:59 +0000

Judith, I enjoy reading your informative blog. Keep it up!
Cheers from Brisbane
Sheryl Gwyther

Comment on New year, new resolution! by Misrule

Misrule — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:49:17 +0000

Links…

Well, just two. The first is to a really beautiful and moving piece about the bushfires, at the Barista blog via Penthe at Life or Books?The second is to the westword blog, which I set up last year to document the Western Sydney Young People’s Liter…

Comment on westword and the HSC by Colin

Colin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:25:41 +0000

thanks so much. all your posts are very helpful. i’m tutoring a few kids heading into year 12 now and all the changes are hard to keep up with. so thank u!

Comment on Welcome to westword by Luke

Luke — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:17:15 +0000

Hello. I wasn’t able to find an email to contact you so I thought I would just leave a comment here.

Food Not Bombs is holding a MASSIVE fund raising show / zine fair / eating party at Jura Books on Sunday 27 July. It’ll start about 1pm, with the outside stuff packing up at sundown.

If you could pass it on, we’d like zine makers to drop us a line if they want to bring their stuff along and have a little table. Tables are free, but a small donation would be nice if you sell lots of stuff.

Thanks.

Comment on Author links and other useful stuff by westword

westword — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:22:20 +0000

Hi Sophie,

Information about submitting books for consideration in the NSW Premier’s Awards are on their website. Go to:

http://tinyurl.com/4vcvq4

Similarly, all the information about submitting books for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award is at:

http://www.arts.gov.au/books/pmliteraryawards

Cheers,

Judith

Comment on Author links and other useful stuff by Sophie Boswell

Sophie Boswell — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:13:51 +0000

How do I enter my book in the NSw Premier’s award aht the P/M’s award?

Comment on Author links and other useful stuff by Sophie Boswell

Sophie Boswell — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:29:21 +0000

How do I enter my book in the NSW Premier’s award and the P/M’s literary award?

Sophie

Comment on Author links and other useful stuff by Judi

Judi — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:02:51 +0000

Thanks for the kind comments about the CMIS site and blog, Westword. Visitors to the Fiction Focus blog will also see two growing tabbed pages at the top – one for author blogs, the other for author and illustrator websites. These are also linked back whenever possible to the CMIS author web pages you refer to. We saw a need for the one-stop shop you mention, and this is a beginning. As I say, both pages are growing, but we welcome all suggestions for additions. Judi

Comment on Author links and other useful stuff by Kevin Parker

Kevin Parker — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:30:14 +0000

Hi Westword,

thanks for your posts- most informative. I agree the CMIS team do an excellent job. Western Australia is certainly making it’s mark on the literary award scene. The young people’s WAYRBA’s and the Western Australian Premier’s awards have maintained a consistently high standard and with the $110,000 Australia/Asian prize looming the word will no doubt spread.
With the recent doubling of NSW Premier’s prize money’s and the PM’s new $100,000 Literary award prizes there is certainly some money sloshing around in award world.

I cover these awards plus the majority of Australian adult and children’s majors alongside 30 or so international literary awards on http://www.literaryawards.com.au which I launched a few short months back. I have sister sites in the US http://www.bookawardsonline.com and in the UK http://www.literaryawards.co.uk which focus on those regions. You might find the sites a useful resource.

Regards from the Southern Highlands of NSW

Kevin Parker- site publisher