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INKY AWARDS 2011

The 2011 Inky Awards

 The Inky Awards are special awards for Ausralian teen choice book awards. They have been awarded since 2007 and are chosen by teenagers who vote for their favourites from the supplied shortlist. The Gold Inky is for an Australian Book and the Silver Inky is for an International Book.

 Cath Crowley who was our Resident Artist in Residence in 2010 has her novel 'Graffiti Moon' on this years Gold shortlist. Perhaps you might like to vote for her. This novel along with others from the Children's Book Council Award List are available to borrow in the ISC.
This years Artist in residence, Simonne Howell was a past Gold  Inky Award winner.

You can vote for your favourite Gold and Silver Inky Award by clicking on the website link below. Voting will be open until midnight October 14.


http://readalert.blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/inky-awards/

The following are Inky Award 2011 shortlisted titles:

Gold Inky (Australian Book)

Graffiti Moon- Cath Crowley

This is Shyness- Leanne Hall

Silvermay- James Moloney

Black Painted Fingernails -Steven Herrick

All I Ever Wanted -Vikki Wakefield

Silver Inky (International Book)


Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares- Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

No and Me- Delphine de Vigan

Clockwork Angel- Cassandra Clare

The Agency: The Body at the Tower -Y.S. Lee

Where She Went -Gayle Forman

Voting will be open until midnight October 14.


2011 Creative Reading Response Competition
You can also win great prizes by writing a creative response to the 2011 Creative reading response competition;


The beauty of this prize is that you, the reader chooses the form of your entry!


Teens and readers alike are invited to submit a creative response to a book you  love. It can be in ANY FORMAT YOU CHOOSE!  

Below are some suggestions to get you started:

-write a short story using the characters/setting (feel free to add zombies)

-make a video trailer or a machinima trailer

-write a poem or a song

-illustrate your favourite scene/character

-sew a costume

-make a model

-create an art piece

THE PRIZE
A Sony Reader Touch, complete with some awesome e-book titles to read!
(if you win)
And there will be MANY runners-up who will get free books, book vouchers, and any other fun stuff we can find.
Submit your entries to youthlit@slv.vic.gov.au (or email a link to the YouTube/flickr/whatever page where your entry lives) and place ‘Creative Reading Prize’ in the subject line.

OR

You can post your entry to:
Inkys Creative Reading Prize
Centre for Youth Literature
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne, VIC 3000
AUSTRALIA

Your entry MUST include:
your name, your email address, your postal address, your age, and the name of the book you are responding to.

THE RULES
You can be any age to submit, and there will be runners-up of all ages, but the Grand Prize can only be won by someone under 20.
Be as creative as possible. You can enter as many times as you like.

Winners will be announced on October 25 at InkyFest, taking place at the State Library of Victoria. The winner of the Creative Writing Prize will also be announced on the 25th Oct.

Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge Book Review Opportunity!

Now that the Premier's Reading Challenge is nearing it's culmination. The Education Age  is encouraging you to write a review of any of the books you have read during the challenge. Click on the website link above that will take you to the VPRC blog and add your review.You have the opportunity to win Book Prizes

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Simmone Howell: Artist in Residence

Recently we were privileged to have author Simmone Howell with us for three days. She was here as the ISC/English Department's 2011 Lorna Sparrow Artist in Residence.She ran creative writing workshops with  Year 7 and 8's and spoke to Year 9's about how her writing is heavily influenced by pop culture. The students really enjoyed her sessions and created some great writing in a very short space of time.Year 7 and 8 English teachers also picked up some interesting strategies to encourage the creative writing juices.

Simmone lives in Castlemaine and is a full time writer.She writes realistic teenage fiction, plays, short stories and scripts for TV. She also uses social media as a platform for her writing and you can read what she has to say about her visit to Gippsland Grammar in her latest blog post

http://www.simmonehowell.com/

CATH CROWLEY

Our last years artist in residence, author  Cath Crowley has been shortlisted in the Victorian Premier's Literary Prizes for 2011 with her new young adult novel 'Graffiti Moon'. This novel is available to borrow in the ISC along with multiple copies of the other short-listed books. Come to the ISC to check them out!

•The winner of the literary prize will be announced on September 5th, 2011.

Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge Book Forum:Add your reviews and win prizes!

Now that the Premier's Reading Challenge is nearing it's culmination The Education Age is encouraging you to write a review of any of the books you have read during the challenge. Click on the website link above that will take you to the VPRC blog and add your review.You have the opportunity to win Book Prizes!

Angel the new book in the Maximum Ride series continues the quest to save the world. the novel alternates between Max's viewpoint and the adventures of her flock and Fang's experiences establishing his new flock. Naturally, the two flocks unite towards the end in order to stave off an attempt by the Doomsday group to recruit the world's teenagers to kill all of humanity. A real page turner, the only disappointment or rather confusion is why the title - 'Angel'. In previous books Angel has attempted a coup in order to become the flock's leader but no such manoeveres occur in this book. Instead, Angel is more loyal and trustworthy than ever, except... but you'll need to read the book to find out. **** O.4 is another glimpse into the possible future only this time, it appears that humanity has not been invaded by aliens or even elimintaed, at least not exactly. Kyle Straker's recorded diary has been unearthed by creatures obviously superior to current humans. They have made a study of it with numerous amusing misinterpretations and odd analogies that give an insight into how great works of literature taken out of context can be easily misunderstood. But what has happened to Kyle nad the rest of humanity as we know it? In a suprising Matrix-like exploration, Mike Lancaster asks the reader to re-evaluate all they ever thought possible about the value of our current existance. ***** The Wilful Eye is a six shory story collection by some of Australia's best authors. The tales are loosely based on fairy tales but they have interpreted in such a rich and intriguing manner that the reader will be left revisiting the images and ideas explored as each story is completed. Not for the casual reader or for one who enjoys a quick fix of romance or violence or humour, the stories will resonate deeply with more literary readers who could well be inspired to return to the original story in order to compare the author's interpretation. Wonderful but definitely weird as well, *****

Inside a Dog

Inside a Dog has a whole new look and a series of additional features.

Book Clubs:

The biggest new feature on the site is the addition of member-run book clubs. If you are a fan of a particular author, genre, or series, you can now start your own Inside a Dog book club and find other like-minded readers to share ideas, post reviews, or show off your fan art. Book clubs can be either open membership, allowing any of the site’s users from around the world to join and contribute, or closed, requiring permission from the clubs’ creator to join.
Each site member will have their own page, listing reviews they have written, their favourite and recommended books, and the book clubs they are members of. “Star reviewers” will earn privileges, ranging from recognition on the site itself to copies of books to review.

You'll find the 'Book Clubs' link at the very top of the Inside a Dog homepage, just above where you might expect a dog's eye to be :)

Reviews:
In addition to individual pages for members, each book reviewed on the site will have its own page. Book pages will list all reviews of the book, along with any additional content supplied by publishers, including first chapters, book trailers, and audiobook snippets, and a list of recommendations and related titles.

Click on the Books link (next to 'Book Clubs') and you'll be taken to the latest books that have been added. Most require a review. You can still add a review to older books by going back through the pages or choosing a genre and finding books you've read.

Teacher Resources:

There are some fabulous links under the link titled: 'Teachers' at the top of the homepage.

Take a look at the 'Book Trailers' link which supplies excellent links that will help your students create book trailers in a number of formats including PowerPoint and Movie Maker.

Welcome to 2011

Last year this blog was set up as a site where reviews of books I had read could be posted in order to help you make choices about reading. During the holidays I read sooooo many books that I'm going to find it hard to decide which books I should review for you. It then occurred to me, why do all the reviewing myself when there are literally hundreds of readers in the school community who read regularly and as a group, more widely than me? So I decided that this year I'd invite you all to email a book that has really grabbed your attention. Email the review to me and I will post it with an image of your book and a 1 - 5 star rating. You might also like to include movie reviews but make them of a rating no higher than an M.

Looking forward to your imput :)