Tickets for GenreCon 2024 are on sale now! ✨ Key speakers include @patrick_ness, C.S. Pacat, Gary Lonesborough, @vanessa_writes, Kate J. Armstrong, news + updates and Lynette Noni, among others. Full program: genrecon.com.au/program-2024 Virtual program: genrecon.com.au/virtual-progra… #LoveOzYA

I’m so thrilled to be chatting with Gary Lonesborough during #AdelaideWritersWeek. You can find us on Tuesday 5th March at 7.30pm on the West Stage right after Lynette Noni and Margot McGovern — it’ll be a fabulous night celebrating YA on the main stage. adelaidefestival.com.au/events/2024-wr…

A HUGE congratulations to all our amazing authors and illustrators whose brilliant works made the 2024 The CBCA Book of the Year notables list! 🎉🎉 Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4bSRb4c

Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature 2024 #NSWPLA shortlist: Tegan Bennett Daylight, Karen Comer, Helena Fox, ✨ Will Kostakis ✨, Gary Lonesborough, Allayne Webster. See judges’ comments: sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/ethel-t…

Indigenous Writers’ Prize 2024 #NSWPLA shortlist: Daniel Browning, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Gary Lonesborough, John Morrissey, Ellen van Neerven, Alexis Wright See judges’ comments: sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/indigen…

✨I’M NOT REALLY HERE✨ coming September 2024 😊🎉

Calloo callay, The Turtle and the Flood has just been shortlisted for the MARION ACT Literary Awards. May wombats bring MARION carrots and cockatoos deliver them champagne. (Though cockatoos might drink the champagne – they love fermented fruit.)

Congratulations to Gary Lonesborough who won best Children’s Book for Older readers at the ACT Literary Awards for the deeply moving We Didn’t Think This Through published by Allen & Unwin ♥️ . #kidslit #childrensbooks #Garylonesborough #YAFiction The CBCA @artsACT1

A massive congratulations to all our amazing authors whose work has been shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards! 🥳 Read our list and more here 👉 bit.ly/4czIOKc Creative Australia #PMLitAwards

🎉 WE DIDNT THINK IT THROUGH is shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024 !!!!!! 😊😊 I’m beyond humbled and absolutely blown away, honestly. ♥️ congrats to my fellow shortlistees!!! 🎉✨✍🏾😊 #PMLitAwards

Congrats to the creator these amazing children’s and YA books that have been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024! 👏🏼🎉 Remy Lai Karen Comer Lili Wilkinson ✨ Will Kostakis ✨ Gary Lonesborough

Come on everyone! Here's a great and unforgettable read by Gary Lonesborough You won't forget this novel anytime soon. Our congrats to Gary! (Plus love 'Grace Notes' too - you'll find these in our database - and verse novels resource with free teaching links

Launch time. Gary Lonesborough

Big day of bookshop drop-ins! Get your signed copies of I’M NOT REALLY HERE at: Kinokuniya Sydney Dymocks Sydney Abbey's Bookshop Better Read Kids gleebooks (Glebe & Dulwich Hill) Berkelouw books Leichhardt Harry Hartog Bondi Junction

"I’m shining lights on Indigenous issues in young adult fiction that aren’t really present in the market at the moment," says Gary Lonesborough. "Every story I write [is] something that I would have liked to have read when I was a teenager." starobserver.com.au/news/gary-lone…

A BIG congratulations to our awesome authors for their wins at the 2024 Readings Awards! 🥳 New Australian Fiction: 'Thanks for Having Me' by Emma Darragh Young Adult Fiction: 'We Didn’t Think It Through' by Gary Lonesborough Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3Ye9zP3

A huge congratulations to all our books included on the 2025 ausindiebooks Award Longlist! 🥳 Read the full list here 👉 bit.ly/41pYTjy

A huge congratulations to all our authors shortlisted in the 2025 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 🥳 Find the full list here 👉 bit.ly/4aDpIDs The Wheeler Centre

A MASSIVE congratulations to all our amazing authors and illustrators whose brilliant works made the 2025 The CBCA of the Year shortlist! 🎉 Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4kY54mh

A HUGE congratulations to our 2025 CBCA Book of the Year Awards winner, and honour books this year! 🥳 Find out more here 👉 bit.ly/4fzA2yK Gary Lonesborough Kate Simpson The CBCA