#LoveOzYA STUDY GUIDE: Introducing Catch Tilly’s teaching video series

Catch Tilly's Study Guide video series is now live

Join Australian author (and former teacher) Catch Tilly as she explores themes and ideas, gives writing tips and offers text analysis of her hard-hitting young adult anti-bullying novel, Otherwise Known as Pig.

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POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘An Uncertain Future’ by Geoff Goodfellow

Today we are looking at iconic and award-winning Australian poet Geoff Goodfellow for our Poem of the Week blog series. The poem is ‘An Uncertain Future’ taken from the very interesting textbook and teacher’s resource The People’s Poet Transformed (also by teacher Rebecca Bond).

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DEBUT AUTHOR JOURNAL: How hard is it to get published?

Poppy Nwosu, Debut Author Journal

As we launch this new blog series in 2020, Poppy Nwosu is the published author of two young adult contemporary novels, Making Friends with Alice Dyson and Taking Down Evelyn Tait. Yet back in 2018, she had just signed her first publication contract for her debut book, and she really had no idea what the future might bring.

This collection of blog posts (originally written by Poppy between March 2018 and March 2019) chronicles her experience during that strange year of limbo between signing a contract and seeing her first book released into the world by Wakefield Press.

For this first post, Poppy speaks about how difficult it really is to get published.

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POETRY SPOTLIGHT: ‘For The Fallen Women’ by Annette Marner

Women With Their Faces on Fire by Annette Marner

For this week’s entry into our Poem of the Week blog series, I have chosen a work by author and poet Annette Marner. The feature today is a poem called ‘For The Fallen Women’ taken from the collection Women With Their Faces On Fire.

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POETRY & EVENT SPOTLIGHT: ‘i am the sea’ by Ali Whitelock

Poetry Spotlight: Ali Whitelock's The Lactic Acid in the Calves of Your Despair

It’s time for our Poem of the Week post! And yes, I’m featuring the wonderful Ali Whitelock AGAIN in this poetry series, but there is a very good reason for that (aside from the fact that I just really love her work)!

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AUTHOR FEATURE: Catch Tilly’s anti-bullying focus

Otherwise Known as Pig by Catch Tilly

Friday 20 March marked National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence (NDA). With everything else going on in the world at the moment, it passed by with a whisper rather than a bang. Yet, prior to the current pandemic situation, bullying was in the headlines and at the centre of debate. It was also the initial drive for author Catch Tilly when she first began writing her young adult fiction novel, Otherwise Known as Pig.

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