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SLV Summer Read program launched

The State Library of Victoria has launched the Summer Read program for 2008. A selection of 20 titles which celebrate the diversity of Victorian writing were chosen by a panel (including WBN publisher...

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In brief

Rivers and Siems leave Phoenix to found Teaching SolutionsHaving sold their shares in Phoenix Education to their partner David Stewart, Barney Rivers and Ruth Siems have now founded a new educational ...

Victoria votes for 'Three Dollars'

Elliot Perlman's Three Dollars (Picador) was voted Victoria's favourite story set in Victoria in the inaugural Reading Victoria program at the State Library of Victoria. The library's reader developme...

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Melbourne to bid for UN City of Literature status

A pre-election proposal from the newly re-elected Labor state government in Victoria promises a $9 million package ‘to support writers, literary organisations and festivals' in a bid to have Mel...

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Inky award winners

The winners of the 2008 Inky Awards have been announced. The Inkys are Australia's teen choice book awards, administered by the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature through th...

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Reader's Feast gets medieval with SLV

Melbourne's Reader's Feast Bookshop has stepped back in time in its role as the official bookseller to the State Library of Victoria's (SLV) new exhibition The Medieval Imagination. Reader'...

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Victoria selects its favourite summer reads

Max Barry's novel Company and Barry Heard's Vietnam memoir Well Done, Those Men, both published by Scribe, are Victoria's favourite summer reads, according to the State Library of Victoria (SLV)....

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Vic Prem's Awards shortlist

The shortlist for the 2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards has been announced. The titles in the running for the book-based prizes are: The Vance Palmer Prize for FictionThe Time We Have Tak...

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Book lovers embrace literary speed dating

The first literary speed dating event hosted by the State Library of Victoria (SLV) on 6 December--entitled Text Appeal--was ‘an outrageous success' according to the SLV's Matt van Hasselt. &lsq...

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SLV fellowships

The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its annual creative fellowships and the Redmond Barry Fellowship.The creative fellowship program is funded by the State Library of V...

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