Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Diversity prominent in new Oz YA titles

Diversity is a hot topic in young adult book titles set for release in Australia in 2016.


the audience at the Year Ahead in Literature YA event in the State Library of Victoria's courtyard
Two hundred people received a crash course
in upcoming YA releases in Australia,
Publishers travelled from all over the country to Melbourne last night, spruiking their upcoming releases with the five-minute time limit strictly enforced by the tambourine of doom in a crazy reverse Literary Speed Dating session where the publishers were pitching to the punters.