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8/16/2017

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‘KYD’, ACWA announce shortlist for S D Harvey Short Story competition Kill Your Darlings and the Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) have announced the shortlist for this year’s S D Harvey Short Story Competition. The shortlisted stories are:

‘Rules to Live By’ by Louise Bassett ‘The Ridge’ by Katherine Kovacic ‘The Enthusiastic Amateur’ by Melanie Myers ‘Shafted’ by Roni O’Brien ‘Flesh’ by Stephen Samuel ‘How to Cease Being a Man Killer’ by Roger Vickery.

The $1000 award, which honours the late true-crime writer and television producer Sandra Harvey, is presented annually for a work of short crime fiction as part of the Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The winner and runner-up of the competition will be announced at the Ned Kelly Awards on 1 September at the Melbourne Writers Festival. For more information, click here . Dymocks launches Books for Kids charity campaign Dymocks bookstores are running a two-week Books for Kids charity campaign, with 50 cents from every children’s book sold to be donated to literacy support programs through Dymocks Children’s Charities. The campaign runs from 12-26 August. Dymocks said more than 12,000 disadvantaged students will receive new books through the campaign. Children’s authors supporting the campaign include UK author David Walliams and local authors Sally Rippin, Jacqueline Harvey, Adam Spencer, Louise Park, Aaron Blabey and Leigh Hobbs. A YouGov survey commissioned by Dymocks found that on average, Australian children owned 18 books at home, while nearly four in 10 children owned less than 11 books. For more information, click here . Copyright Agency signs three new publishers to LearningField The Copyright Agency has signed three new publishers—National Educational Advancement Programs, Edrolo and Titan Education—to its etextbook subscription service LearningField for a further three years. The deal adds about 250 new texts, study guides and video support programs to its catalogue of over 1300 products available on the platform. LearningField has also introduced a new ‘pick and mix’ pricing model, which allows schools to choose three subjects or titles that best meet their students’ needs, rather than selecting from pre-bundled combinations of core and elective subjects.

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