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Book Links AGM 2023 with guest speaker Mia Macrossan

Book Links AGM 2023 with guest speaker Mia Macrossan
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11:30 - 12:00 Pre-AGM nibblies and network.
Make sure you let us know if you are coming for this when you book so we can cater.

12.00 - 12:45 - Books Links AGM and announcement of the 2023 Book Links Mentorship by Dr Robyn Sheahan-Bright

1:00 - 2:00 - Mia Macrossan - What Makes an Award - Winning Children’s Book?
A personal exploration of the qualities judges look for when deciding on a long list, short list and the ultimate winner of an award using examples taken from awards all over the world as well as Australia. 

 

 

Mia Macrossan
I was born in The Netherlands and emigrated to Australia with my family when I was eight years old. I studied at Brisbane universities graduating in Arts, Education and Teacher Librarianship. I spent the next decade or so travelling and working overseas in the usual variety of jobs, including being a research assistant in Addis Ababa for the UNECA and editor at Scholastic UK.   Once I had children, I started working in Brisbane schools as a teacher librarian.

I have been judging various children’s literary awards now for about ten years, starting as a CBCA children’s book of the year judge. Since then I have often been an Aurealis judge and a Queensland Literary Awards judge and panel chair. For a number of years I was one of the judges of the annual Book Week displays in the Brisbane City Council libraries until Covid stopped them. I have been chair of the judging panel for the Book Links Award for Historical Children’s fiction since it started in 2021.  I have been a children’s book reviewer for a very long time, starting with Fiction Focus, Reviewpoint, and Reading Time. I now review for Magpies, 4MBS Radio and of course, StoryLinks

 

2:00 - 5:00 - Write Links meeting and critique groups.

This is a free event, but donations are welcome and are tax deductible.

Venue

State Library of Qld, Meeting Room 1b

South Brisbane, 4101

Contact Details:

Jenny Stubbs info@booklinks.org.au 0409 266 786

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