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Chair: Clare Sawyer Romance is a popular genre in Australian YA fiction, reflecting the age that the characters first begin to express their love and sexuality. There are added layers of complexity for characters from non-Western cultures, as they balance the usual growing pains of adolescence and young romance with a sense of being different from the dominant culture. Join authors Sarah Ayoub and Randa Abdel-Fattah as they discuss realistic characters, romantic tropes, feelings of being 'Other' and the importance of self-love. Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 11:00am in the Torrens Tent

Bill Bennett is an award winning filmmaker and author. In his home country of Australia he's won the equivalent of the Oscar (Australian Film Institute Award) for Best Film and Best Director, and been nominated a further 12 times. His documentary work has been awarded two Logies, Australian television's highest award. Bill has had two feature films in Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard) and four feature films in Official Selection at Toronto. He's won Best Picture at Karlovy Vary, Palm Springs and Hawaii film festivals. His work has screened at the New York Museum of Modern Art, and he's had three major film retrospectives, in Germany, the US and India. As well, Penguin Random House recently completed publishing his trilogy of Young Adult novels Palace of Fires, one of its largest selling Australian YA titles in years. Join Robert Manni, author of The Guys' Guy's Guide To Love as we discuss life, love and the pursuit of happiness. Subscribe to Guy's Guy Radio on YouTube, iTunes and wherever you get your podcasts! Buy The Guys' Guy's Guide to Love now!

Bill Bennett is an award winning filmmaker and author. In his home country of Australia he's won the equivalent of the Oscar (Australian Film Institute Award) for Best Film and Best Director, and been nominated a further 12 times. His documentary work has been awarded two Logies, Australian television's highest award. Bill has had two feature films in Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard) and four feature films in Official Selection at Toronto. He's won Best Picture at Karlovy Vary, Palm Springs and Hawaii film festivals. His work has screened at the New York Museum of Modern Art, and he's had three major film retrospectives, in Germany, the US and India. As well, Penguin Random House recently completed publishing his trilogy of Young Adult novels Palace of Fires, one of its largest selling Australian YA titles in years. Join Robert Manni, author of The Guys' Guy's Guide To Love as we discuss life, love and the pursuit of happiness. Subscribe to Guy's Guy Radio on YouTube, iTunes and wherever you get your podcasts! Buy The Guys' Guy's Guide to Love now!

On the show today… In news that will thrill elder millennials, Netflix has released the first trailer for Heartbreak High, the highly anticipated reimagining of the 90s Australian YA series and you must take a look at it. And in an interesting turn of events, Joe Jonas has given an interview about his partnership with a cosmetic injectable brand, saying he's attempting to break the taboo around men's beauty routines. Yes, it's all hooked on sponsored content, but his words have opened up an interesting conversation about men's faces. Plus, after many years of speculation, the subjects of an anonymous 2016 lawsuit where a woman said she was assaulted by her “then-husband” on a private plane have been revealed as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The FBI reports about the famous couple contain some very disturbing allegations of assault, so once again we have to discuss why the world refuses to have a negative conversation about Brad Pitt. Even as the evidence continues to pile up against him. THE END BITS Subscribe to Mamamia GET IN TOUCH: Join us in our Facebook group to discuss everything pop culture...https://www.facebook.com/groups/2524018781153963/ Feedback? We're listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at thespill@mamamia.com.au WANT MORE? Read all the latest entertainment news on Mamamia... https://mamamia.com.au/entertainment/ Subscribe to The Spill Newsletter... https://mamamia.com.au/newsletter CREDITS Hosts: Laura Brodnik & Chelsea McLaughlin Executive Producer: Gia Moylan Audio Producer: Rhiannon Mooney Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Just by reading our articles or listening to our podcasts, you're helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We're currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.auBecome a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sarah Ayoub is a journalist, bestselling author and academic with a PhD in migrant Australian YA literature. She is a Stella Schools Program ambassador, has mentored the youth curators of The Sydney Writers' Festival YA program, contributed to the anthology Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity and most recently been a judge for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Sarah was elected to the board of the Australian Society of Authors in 2021 and is currently working on her first novel for adults as the writer-in-residence of Sweatshop Literacy Movement. She regularly appears at writers festivals and schools, discussing her novels Hate is Such a Strong Word and The Yearbook Committee. We are discussing her debut picture book, The Love that Grew, and new YA novel inspired by her PhD research called The Cult of Romance. Our interview begins at  00:11:30 Caitlin recommends: The Yearbook by Holly Bourne An engrossing contemporary YA novel exploring high school and how we remember it. Michelle recommends: The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex A slow-burning mystery about mysterious disappearances from an off-shore lighthouse in the 1970s. In this interview, we chat about: How Sarah's experiences visiting Lebanon influenced Natalie's story in The Cult of Romance Why do people get married young? Positioning older YA/New Adult books in the market Sarah's choice to move away from writing YA novels Sarah's first picture book, The Love That Grew How Sarah came to write her first novel, Hate is Such a Strong Word Why feature writing is still Sarah's first love Sarah's study into multiculturalism in Australian YA and how The Cult of Romance developed as part of her PhD Books and other things mentioned: The Handover by David M Barnett (https://www.betterwordspodcast.com/episode/love-and-other-puzzles-kimberley-allsopp (Michelle originally recommended here)) History Extra: https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/mystery-vanishing-lighthouse-keepers-emma-stonex-podcast/ (The Mystery of the Vanishing Lighthouse Keepers) It Only Happens in the Movies, Pretending and How Do You Like Me Now? by Holly Bourne Shameless Podcast asks "How much have you changed in 5 years?" (https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fynGwN2f07jOfC1iO3aU1?si=U_vKZcHMTteMG1hU8_rMcQ (here's the ep)) Loner by Georgina Young Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending by Jodi McAlister Does My Head Look Big In This? by Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah Laurinda by Alice Pung Follow Sarah on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bysarahayoub/?hl=en (@bysarahayoub) The Cult of Romance is available now. Connect with us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterwordspod/ (@betterwordspod) Please note that we choose podcast guests independently of Caitlin's job at HarperCollins Publishers. Although her job does help put us in touch with authors, we choose our guests based on what we've enjoyed reading and think you'd find interesting.

April is Autism Acceptance month! Our first episode of the month is on Peta Lyre's Rating Normal by Anna Whateley, an Australian YA novel whose main character is Autistic, ADHD, and queer!

In this episode, Emma is joined by Alice Boer-Endacott, a YA author, IB and VCE English tutor, and the secretary of the #LoveOzYA committee. Together they talk about Australian YA literature, its place and value in the classroom, and the enduring nature of some of the first Australian YA texts like Tomorrow, When The War Began and Looking For Alibrandi. For more about Alice's monthly column, Ask Alice, visit www.loveozya.com.au. For a list of complementary reading to Emma and Alice's discussion, head to the VATE Village website: http://www.vate.org.au/vate-village.Alice is a Melbourne-based author with ten years of experience tutoring Secondary English for IB and VCE curricula across over 20 schools. In 2019, she joined the Committee of LoveOzYA, a group committed to promoting Young Adult books written by Australian authors to Australian readers. As both an Australian, and an author of Young Adult books, she knows firsthand the importance of a thriving local readership and literary landscape. In 2020, she became a part of the organising group behind OzAuthorsOnline, a digital platform for author events created in response to the lockdowns imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Her academic interest in the relationship between texts and readers resulted in an ‘accessibly academic' short non-fiction book, Mirror, Mirror, published in December 2020 by Debut Books, and has seen her start a PhD in 2021.

Ellie Marney is an award-winning, internationally successful YA crime writer and passionate Australian YA advocate who has multiple titles to her name. Her latest novel, 'None Shall Sleep' (published by Allen & Unwin) was utterly gripping. A spine-chilling, edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller that kept me turning pages late into the night.I was delighted to welcome Ellie to the podcast a little while ago to talk about her inspiration for this FBI-themed novel and how she managed going back in time, dealing with the notable absence of the internet and mobile phone technology amongst other things. A truly fascinating chat that you won't want to miss if you love crime fiction like I do.

Joining me for this episode's online chat is award-winning Young Adult crime author, Ellie Marney. Ellie has been involved in the creation of the national campaign #LoveOzYA to promote and advocate for Australian YA literature, she has contributed to the critically-acclaimed Begin End Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology and she co-runs the popular #LoveOzYAbookclub online. Ellie's books include the Circus Hearts series, White Night, the Every trilogy which begins with Every Breath and was her first young adult book published in 2013. Her latest book is None Shall Sleep which was released in September 2020 and is a dark and chilling read following two teenagers unfortunately familiar with the violence of serial killers who are drawn into an FBI case and become the conduit between the FBI and an incarcerated teenage serial killer, who seems to have insight into the current case. We chat about writing crime for young adults, the question at the heart of crime fiction, sociopaths and geniuses and how difficult they are to write when they are teenagers! The pairings: The Erasure Initiative by Lili Wilkinson A girl wakes up on a self-driving bus. She has no memory of how she got there or who she is. Her nametag reads CECILY. The six other people on the bus are just like her: no memories, only nametags. There's a screen on each seatback that gives them instructions. A series of tests begin, with simulations projected onto the front window of the bus. The passengers must each choose an outcome; majority wins. But as the testing progresses, deadly secrets are revealed, and the stakes get higher and higher. Soon Cecily is no longer just fighting for her freedom - she's fighting for her life. Ellie loves this book for its fast-paced storytelling and its mystery meat sandwiches so to pair with it she recommends Peck's Paste sandwiches and a Long Island Iced Tea cause you'll need a stiff drink before you're done! Circe by Madeline Miller In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. Ellie found this a completely engrossing read, the kind of book you neglect your family over, beautifully written, refreshing, it left a profound impression. She suggests the only appropriate pairing is a platter of delicious feta cheese, dolmades, crusty bread and oil with a delicious chilled wine and I quite agree :) Justine's book was The last days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp. Creepy yet funny this book requires coffee to keep you alert then chamomile tea to calm your nerves!

Ellie Marney is an award-winning YA crime author who has gone behind the scenes at the Westminster Mortuary in London and interviewed forensic autopsy specialists around the world in pursuit of just the right gory details. She may or may not know how to commit the perfect murder. Her titles include the Every trilogy, No Limits, White Night and the Circus Hearts series. Ellie has been involved in the creation of the national campaign called #LoveOzYA to promote and advocate for Australian YA literature. Ahead of the release of 'None Shall Sleep', Sarah and Shanu sat down with Ellie to discuss her new book, her writing process, her love of crime, how serial killers fit within literature, and more. Books mentioned in this podcast: 'None Shall Sleep' by Ellie Marney: https://bit.ly/2Gyd8LG Host: Sarah McDuling & Shanu Prasad Guest: Ellie Marney Producer: Nick Wasiliev

Alison Evans is the award winning author of Ida and Highway Bodies. They are a spectacular author of Australian YA and with so many high schoolers being home schooled at the moment, you could do worse than grabbing a copy of Alison’s catalogue. Especially the brilliant Euphoria KidsThe story centres on Iris and Babs. They both go to the same school but they don’t know each other. In fact nobody really notices Babs, not since a witch cursed her and she periodically becomes invisible.Iris has friends but not the human kind. Iris grew from a seed in the garden and has always had more kinship with the fairies and dryads that live in the bush. Until one day when Babs appears to Iris on the Bus.As their friendship blossoms they meet the boy. The boy is new at school and is on a journey discovering who he is; including his name.With their friendship connecting them to the magic around them, Iris, Babs and the boy start to experience true companionship and happiness. That is until the fairies warn Iris that the witch who cursed Babs has returned to the forest...Euphoria Kids explores what it means to be young and queer and finding out about yourself. It delves into the loneliness of not being understood, but also the joys of meeting your people. It’s a wonderful story that blends the supernatural with the everyday and shows what real magic can look like in the world.It’s a pretty strange and scary time right now and I don’t mind saying that having a little magic injected into my world is often just what I need. It’s also a book that reminds us how powerful connection is. I don’t think many people could watch Iris, Babs and the boy build their friendship without wanting to look up an old mate and see what they're up to...

"The middle ground between tokenism and stereotype is just good storytelling". Australian YA legend Melina Marchetta (Looking for Alibrandi; Saving Francesca; Finnikin of the Rock; The Piper's Son) talks about what she has learnt about writing from the perspective of identity in the 28 years since her first novel was released, and what has changed – or hasn't changed – in the way writers can best approach questions of identity in their work. The WestWords Mini-Masterclasses are supported by the Cultural Fund Copyright Agency.

Jody and Alison finish Puberty Blues! Enter the Cocoon for chapters 15-16 of the hallowed Australian YA novel, written in 1979 by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette. Deb gets pregnant and then not pregnant, Cheryl drops acid and puts on quite the show at assembly, the Greenhills gang succumbs to heroin, and our gals decide to drink milkshakes and START SURFING! Follow along as Alison and Jody muddle through meandering plotlines, unclear details, hash capsules, gaol and Soul Pattersons. Come back in two weeks for a final wrap-up, including Special Reports, a Puberty Blues movie review, and listener letters. Lastly, please support us by joining our Patreon at www.patreon.com/theblumesaloon!

Amelia Westlake meets My Favorite Murder in this debut from a terrific new voice in Australian YA. Combines a realistic story about high school drama and toxic friendship with true crime - the endlessly fascinating Somerton Man or Tamam Shud mystery. 15-year-old Lara Laylor feels like supporting character in her own life. She's Ashley's best friend, she's Hannah's sister-she's never just Lara. When new history teacher Mr. Grant gives her an unusual assignment: investigating the mystery of the Somerton Man. Found dead in on an Adelaide beach in 1948, a half-smoked cigarette still in his mouth and the labels cut out of his clothes, the Somerton Man has intrigued people for years. Was he a spy? A criminal? Year 10 has plenty of mysteries of its own: boys, drama queen friends, and enigmatic new students. When they seem just as unsolvable as a 60-year-old cold case, Lara finds herself spending more and more time on the assignment. But Mr Grant himself may be the biggest mystery of all... Interspersed with fictionalised snapshots of the Somerton Man investigation, ALL THAT IMPOSSIBLE SPACE is a coming of age novel exploring toxic friendships and the balance of power between teacher and student.

I'M ON ME RAGS! Hello and welcome to chapters 9-10 of THE Australian YA classic, "Puberty Blues," penned by teenagers Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey in 1979. Deb and Sue get drunk for the first time and it does not end well. Deb gets dropped and has an epic driveway meltdown, Sue finally gets her friendship ring, the gang roams aimlessly around Miranda Fair, and there's some strange tickling foreplay to Pat Boone. Alison talks about her disastrous day trip to Phoenix, Jody recalls her early '90s brush with Dettol, and Chef Beth helps turn some pages. Be sure to join our Patreon for more CONTENT, including our newsletter, videos, and fun goodies in the mail! www.patreon.com/theblumesaloon

See ya later old cheese! Join your favorite Blume Heads for chapters 7-8 of “Puberty Blues,” the iconic Australian YA novel by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey (1971). Sydney surfie chicks Deb and Sue are still getting up to no good – guzzling brandyvino, dating terrible boys, watching Benny Hill, wearing see-thru underpants, and getting called to the headmaster's office. Meanwhile, Jody and Alison discuss Singapore Social, Alison's early adoption of UGG boots, the joy of answering machine greetings, fibro houses, and the groundbreaking Aussie soap, “Number 96.” There's also a disturbing letter from Beth about a Vaseline-covered amputated hand, and a note from Andrea about some spooky Blume Saloon-related coincidences. And if that's not enough, we've piped in some excellent Australian commercials from the late ‘70s!

Australian YA author Alison Evans and I talk about their new book, ‘Highway Bodies’, as well as queers, tenderness and zombies! Follow Alison and Marlee on Twitter (Note: the sound on this episode is a little crackly. My apologies!) Intro and Outro: Metamorphosis by Osiris Saline Produced and edited by Marlee Jane Ward

Australian YA fiction writer and journalist Gabrielle Tozer explores the past and its impact on our present lives, through her latest novel 'Remind Me How This Ends.' Gabrielle Tozer is the internationally published author of three YA novels: The Intern, which won the State Library of Victoria’s 2015 Gold Inky Award, Faking It and Remind Me How This Ends. Her first picture book, Peas and Quiet (illustrated by Sue deGennaro), was published in June 2017, and her YA contemporary short story ‘The Feeling From Over Here’ (featured in Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) is also out now. Based in Sydney, Gabrielle loves sharing her passion for storytelling and creativity, and has appeared at festivals, schools and conferences around Australia including the Sydney Writers' Festival, Bendigo Writers' Festival, National Young Writers' Festival and the Somerset Celebration of Literature. She has also been featured on Weekend Today, Triple J and ABC Radio, as well as in The Sydney Morning Herald, Dolly, Girlfriend, TV Week and Cosmopolitan. The novel: Milo was a discoloured memory with blurred edges and a washed-out palette. Yet five minutes with him and everything came back to me in an instant." Layla Montgomery’s life fell apart at thirteen. After her mum died in a shock accident, Layla’s grieving father packed their bags and forced her to leave behind everything she’d ever known. Milo Dark has been stuck on pause since the Year 12 exams. His long-term girlfriend moved 300 kilometres away for uni, his mates bailed for bigger things, and he’s convinced he missed the reminder to plan out the rest of his life. As kids, Layla and Milo shared everything – their secrets, a treehouse and weekends at the river. But they haven't spoken since her mum’s funeral. That is, until Layla shows up five years later in his parents’ bookshop without so much as a text message. Pretty soon they’re drawn into a tangled mess that guarantees someone will get hurt. And while it’s a summer they'll never forget, is it one they’ll want to remember?

Mari and Meg return with their first "12 Dancing Princesses" adaptation, an Australian YA novel Wildwood Dancing. This book adapts and expands on the fairy tale, adding in actual fairies and vampires and a truly evil antagonist. We also briefly discuss Baba Yaga, and how this book reads better when you don't think of distant cousins as cousins.   Join us again next Tuesday as we discuss Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses!   Don't Forget To Vote for Season 5's Fairy Tale! Follow us on social media, and don't forget to rate and review us! Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Website | Email: fableulous@gmail.com Join us every Tuesday for a new episode!   Thank you to BenSound for our theme music and VidaLovesCake for our artwork!

Welcome to another episode of Adventures in YA, in this episode we are talking about the land down under Australia! Join us as we talk about Australian YA authors. 17 Australian YA Authors You Need To Read Goodreads Best Australian YA Books Adventures in YA 2017 Reading Challenge Sara: The Demon King Disruption I Believe […] The post Adventures in YA Episode 048: The Australians appeared first on Adventures In YA.

Making our living from writing is a dream for many of us but not for today’s guest. For Steph Bowe the dream is a reality. In fact, she has never known any different. Steph has always written and, at 23, is about to launch her third novel for young adults, Night Swimming, which she describes as ‘a funny, diverse story of family, love, musicals, crop-circles and goats’. And she keeps good company, alongside Merlina Marchetta and Lili Wilkinson, to name a couple of other successful Australian YA authors. So it can be done. Steph is a Stella ambassador for schools and she’s a firm believer in the need for a diversity of books. Today we talk about the importance of characters and relationships in YA fiction, as well as why self-promotion as an author matters and how to go about it. You can find out more about Steph and her books http://www.stephbowe.com/ (here.) https://writerontheroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-23-at-6.14.40-pm.png ()   Don’t forget to check out Take 10 Social’s FB ads Masterclass https://www.take10social.com.au/a/3742/n8McVrop (here).   https://writerontheroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FitnFifty-Plus-itunes-graphic-Final.jpeg ()   This podcast is sponsored by lifestyle and fitness coach, Jennifer Gale, at Fit ‘n Fifty Plus, and it’s not her fault I’ve caught the flu. You can visit Jennifer http://fitnfiftyplus.com.au/ (here.)

On Episode 2, Braiden Asciak is joined by 2015 debut Australian YA authors Fleur Ferris (author of 'Risk' - available), Trinity Doyle (author of 'Pieces of Sky' - available), and Christopher Currie (author of upcoming 'Clancy of the Undertow' - publishing December). Following that, Braiden reflects on his reading of Tim Winton's 'Island Home' (available now), before speaking to Vikki Wakefield about her third and latest novel 'Inbetween Days' (available now).