FEBRUARY 2025 BOOK LINKS NEWS
Here's the news of all things KidLit for this month, events for the year ahead, including details of the annual Short Story competition, Romancing the Stars, the upcoming Illustrators Exhibition and more: FEBRUARY 2025 BOOK LINKS NEWS
Richard Yaxley wins 2024 StoryLinks Short Story Competition
Congratulations to Richard Yaxley who won the 2024 StoryLinks Short Story competition with his subtle, emotive story Fly High, announced this week at the Narelle Oliver lecture. Read Fly High By Richard Yaxley 2024 Short List Hedgewhale by Genevieve Young-Evans It Would Never Have
Newsflash! Deadline for entries extended to April 9, 2024
2024 StoryLinks Short Story competition for writers aged 18 + Newsflash! Deadline for entries extended to April 9, 2024 For details of the competition and guidelines on how to enter please go to 2024 StoryLinks Short Story Competition for writers aged 18+.
Winning the StoryLinks Short Story competition by Ali Rutstein
Ali Rutstein won the 2023 Short Story Competition for adult writers 18+ with her story The Loophole. Originally from England, Ali Rutstein moved to Australia over twenty years ago. She is now firmly settled in Brisbane, where she lives with her partner,
Meredith Downes wins 2022 Short Story Competition
Congratulations to Meredith Downes who won the 2022 StoryLinks Short Story competition for adults aged 18+. Here is our spotlight interview with Meredith (before she was announced the winner). The judges declared her story, The Pop Girls, the winner at this
Spotlight on 2022 Short Story Shortlist: Meredith Downes
Here is the first of our spotlights on our shortlisted writers. Meredith Downes has been shortlisted for her short story 'The Pop Girls', a subtle story about a girl immersed in swimming but who still observes what happens around her
2022 Book Links Annual Lecture in Children’s Literature
This lecture by Dr Robyn Sheahan - Bright will survey a range of contemporary responses to social issues in children’s literature, and how social activism is reflected in texts by both Australian and international authors. It will canvas the concerns
Shortlist for 2022 Short Story Competition for writers 18+
The art of the short story is alive and well. We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for this year's short story competition for writers aged 18+. This year we had a record 43 entries from which the judges chose
Shortlist 2020 Short Story competition written by children in year 4,5 & 6
This year there were a record number of entries, nearly 300, from all across Australia. Children wrote across genres and styles - fantasy, emotional realism, detective stories, science fiction, choose your own adventure, graphic novel, adventure and escape. The judges were
