Indigenous Literacy Day today

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is staging its ninth Indigenous Literacy Day today (Wednesday 2 September) to raise money for Indigenous literacy.

A number of booksellers are donating a percentage of their takings today to ILF. You can see a list of the participating booksellers here. Great Book Swap events are being held at schools, libraries, universities and other organisations across the country, while the ILF is also running a fundraising drive to which contributions can be made here.

As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the day will be launched at an event at the Sydney Opera House featuring ILF ambassadors Quentin Bryce, Jessica Mauboy, Deborah Cheetham, Ursula Yovich, Justine Clarke and Alison Lester, who will be joined by on stage by four young storytellers from Milikapiti school on Melville Island.

The ILF has also been named as the charity of choice for the Mamamia Women’s Network (MWN) writing competition, run in partnership with HarperCollins. Entries are open in six categories, with the winner in each awarded $1000 and a meeting with HarperCollins, as well as a selection of books and mentoring with MWN. The $10 entry fee will be paid direct to the ILF.

More than $600,000 has been donated to the foundation in 2015, and it has supplied more than 140,000 books to 250 remote communities in its four years as a foundation.

For more information visit the ILF website here.

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