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Canberra Writers Festival 2017
If you follow me on Instagram (@bookishbron) you’ll know I have just spent most of my weekend having a wonderfully bookish time at the Canberra Writers Festival. I went to four sessions, two on each day, and ate lunch in the sunshine yesterday while today it apparently snowed at lunchtime. Hello almost spring in Canberra haha. While the festival is held at a bunch of venues across the city, all four sessions I attended were at the National Library of Australia. It is such a beautiful building, and in a perfect setting, it was a pleasure to spend the weekend there. The sun, the lake, the stained glass windows.…
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Sydney Writers’ Festival :: All Day YA
Ok, so this was nearly a month ago now, but it was so AMAZING that I’m still raving about it.The Sydney Writers’ Festival was held at the end of May, and included a whole day dedicated to celebrating Young Adult books – All Day YA. The event included panels and interviews with authors – my friend Madeleine and I saw the following panels:– Love Oz YA Anthology: Begin, End, Begin – Keeping Company: Characters Across a Series – More Than Meets the Eye: Diversity in YA Fiction – Defying Expectations: How Do Female Writers Defy Stereotypes And also the TeenCon 2017 session (where publishers pitched some of their upcoming or recent…
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Free Comic Book Day 2017
We have a fantastic local comic book store which we visit pretty much every Saturday morning (Sam has a standing weekly order with them). It’s always a fun part of the weekend – while Sam checks out the new releases Amelia and I have a browse around and she points out characters she knows on the comics and merch, and has a chat with the guys who work there (who have know her since she was about 18 months old and Sam used to go in with her on his chest in the baby carrier on his days off work). The first Saturday of May is extra exciting, since it’s…
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Cosy Reading Night :: April 2017
Cosy reading night is a virtual readathon hosted by Lauren from Lauren and the Books, and it is just as wonderful as it sounds! An evening dedicated to reading and cosiness? Sign me up! Tonight is the third cosy reading night, and the second that I will be participating in, and it has been so much fun getting my cosy reading supplies together! Let’s take a closer look at what I consider cosy reading night essentials! First let’s talk books and general cosiness (autocorrect wanted to call that General Cosiness!). The middle book there – John Safran’s true crime Murder in Mississippi – is my partner Sam’s current…
