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As we head towards the end of the year, there's still plenty happening in the
world of children's literature. Read on to find out... Between our monthly newsletters, keep up to date with what's going on in Storylines and New Zealand children's literature on our Facebook page. |
Storylines news
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Northland Story
Tour
The final Storylines
National Festival Story Tour for 2018 is in the Far North and Kaipara this
week. Authors Kyle Mewburn, Fraser Smith, Melanie Drewery and Heather Haylock are visiting primary
intermediate and secondary schools, as well as early childhood centres
children at schools and libraries in Warkworth, Ruawai, Dargaville, Opononi,
Kaikohe, Okaihau, Kaitaia, Kerikeri and Opua. They've also been the centre of
attenti on at two events for adults in the afternoon, at Dargaville and
Kerikeri libraries.
We'll have a wrap on this and
other tours in our next newsletter and on our website in December. Or you can
check out the activities in the north on our Facebook
page.
Melanie
Drewery toured the north with Kyle Mewburn, Fraser Smith and Heather Haylock
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2018 Storylines
Betty Gilderdale Award presentation
The Storylines Betty
Gilderdale Award for 2019 will be presented to Northland librarian and
children’s books advocate Jeannie Skinner on Sunday 2 December at 3pm at the
National Library, The Strand, Parnell, Auckland. After Jeannie’s Spring
Lecture presentation, light refreshments will be served. Seating is limited,
so please register on the Storylines website.Storylines members are free, with a $15 a head charge for non-members. There is no charge for children.
Jeannie
Skinner
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Christmas Books
List on website
The Christmas Book List, a useful
buying guide for Christmas, is now available on our website. You will find personal recommendations from a
team of Storylines members (authors, teachers, academics, illustrators,
librarians, parents and grandparents) of New Zealand and international books
in four genres: picture books, junior and young adult fiction, non-fiction.
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Storylines Margaret Mahy National Awards Day 2019
Mark Sunday 31 March
2019, in your calendar for the Storylines Margaret Mahy Awards Day where
awards and certificates will be presented for the Storylines Margaret Mahy
Medal, the manuscript awards, the Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for a young
illustrator, and the 2019 Notable Books. It will be held the University of
Auckland Music Auditorium, Epsom campus, Epsom Avenue, Auckland. Nominations
for the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award have now closed (31
Oct); the winner will be announced in January and
will present his/her Margaret Mahy lecture at the Awards event.
Janice Marriot,
2018 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal winner
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Awards
submissions closed
The end of October was the final
deadline for several key Storylines awards:
Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award; Storylines Joy Cowley Award ; and Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award. Judges are now preparing to spend their summer break reading and re-reading the manuscript entries to make final decisions on winners. |
Storylines Notable Books 2019 Submission Deadline
The submission deadline for all Notable Books
categories (Picture Book, Junior Fiction, YA fiction, Non-fiction and Te Reo
Māori) is 30 November 2018. Submissions are welcomed from publishers, writers
and illustrators.
Details on our Notable Books page.
Scholastic's
poster with Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award winners to date
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New Tip Sheet -
Non-Fiction
The latest Top Ten Tips sheet, by writer Maria Gill, is available
for Storylines members on the website. Remember to log in as a member when
you open the website so you can access it.
Maria
Gill
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Storylines Gavin Bishop Award deadline
In addition to the Notable Books submissions, the
deadline looms for the Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for illustration
– 30 November 2018.
Entry forms and details on the Storylines Gavin Bishop Award page on our website.
Gavin Bishop
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Yamada Books for
Refugees event
Books for young refugees
in their own languages will be presented by Storylines/IBBYNZ at the AUT
Mangere Refugee Education Resettlement Centre in late November. A $US5000
($NZ6,633.23) grant from the Yamada Foundation has enabled IBBY NZ to source
books from Iran, Singapore, Myanmar, and Palestine to meet the needs of
refugee children arriving this year. They include books in Farsi, Arabic,
Tamil, Punjabi, Burmese, Karen, Chin, and hopefully Rohingyan. For more
information contact Libby
Limbrick.
Storylines
chair Libby Limbrick, Maria Hayward (Director of the Mangere Refugee
Resettlement Centre) and Frances Plumpton, chair of IBBY New Zealand sort
books for teh refugee centre
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Nami Concours
Picture Book Illustration Award
Congratulations to Brian
Lovelock for achieving shortlisting in the 2019 Nami Concours Picture Book
Illustration Award. He was selected from among 1844 entries from 98 nations
and is one of just 106 shortlisted entries from 42 nations. There will be a
final judging in January 2019. Read more: http://www.namiconcours.com/press/press_01.php?page=1&keyfield=&keyword=&num=19&re_num=0&mode=view
Brian
Lovelock
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IBBY Honour List
2018
The IBBY Honour List 2018
was presented at the 36th IBBY Congress in Athens recently. The slide show is
on YouTube. IBBY New Zealand’s selection of writer Kate De
Goldi (From the Cutting Edge of Barney Kettle, Penguin Random House
NZ); illustrator David Elliot (Snark, Being a True History of the
Expedition that Discovered the Snark and the Jabberwock ... and its Tragic
Aftermath, Otago University Press); and translator Kawata Teepa (Whiti
Te Rā!, Huia NZ) feature alongside other outstanding books selected by
IBBY member countries. Read more about the IBBY Honour List.
Kate
De Goldi
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Is your
membership up to date?
If you haven't yet paid your
membership to March 2019, you can no longer log on to access resources
available only to Storylines Members. If you are sure you have paid for
2018-19 and can no longer access your account, please contact membership@storylines.org.nz
and we'll check your account.
You can renew your membership through the website with your credit card, or as a direct credit to the Storylines bank account. Check out our instructions for renewal or new membership. |
Answer & Win
Congratulations to the
winners of our October newsletter competition: Vaana Langdon
of Epsom, Auckland, and Kirsten Elliott - Sacred Heart Girls' College,
Hamilton. We have two more prize
packs containing fabulous New Zealand children's books to give away this
month. Email us at competition@storylines.org.nz with the answer to this month’s question: Please tell us
the date and venue of the Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award presentation.
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News on our
Facebook and home pages
Storylines' Facebook page
is now accessible through the website, and we would love to increase our
tally of ‘likes’. Content includes photos and reports from the 2018 Story
Tours and much more.
You'll also read other news items on our home page. Check in for updates. Raymond Huber and Raymond McGrath at Good Shepherd School in Auckland as part of the 2018 Storylines Story Tour |
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News from other
organisations
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Massey University Press (MUP) is
joining forces with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris. Their company, Annual Ink,
is to become MUP’s new children’s imprint — the first of its kind in New
Zealand. The imprint’s first title, Hazel and the Snails, by debut
author Nan Blanchard, will be published in March 2019 and it exemplifies everything the partnership plans to emphasise. Read more. |
Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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