The Bill Coppell Young Writers’ Award 2009 has begun. Anyone between 11 and 18yrs can enter with a poem or short story no longer than 750 words.

Go here for more info and entry form.

Deadline is 5pm, Friday 8th May.

Thanks go to the following sponsors for their generous donations of thousands of dollars worth of prizes…

Ensemble Theatre, Pen Ultimate, NSW Writer’s Centre, World Book, Britannica, Norths FITNESS, Miller St. Oval Newsagency, Joan’s Ridge Street Gallery , Northside Courier, Sydney Aquarium , Luna Park, Sandra Shilansky, Mosman Daily and North Sydney council.

Hey guys

If you feel like some Valentine’s Day fluff, angst, paranormal pretties, drama or fantasy check out our reading list below:

Paranormal Romance

Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer

• Twilight YAF/ MEYE and F/ MEYE

• New Moon YAF/ MEYE and F/ MEYE

• Eclipse YAF/ MEYE and F/ MEYE

• Breaking Dawn YAF/ MEYE and F/ MEYE

Vampire kisses series by Ellen Schreiber

• Vampire Kisses Graphic

• Kissing coffins  YAF/SCHR

• Vampireville YAF/SCHR

• Dance with a vampire YAF/SCHR

Mediator series by Meg Cabot

• Grave doubts YA PB

• High stakes YA PB

• Heaven sent YA PB

• Twilight YAF/CABO

• Young blood YA PB

Dark angel series by Meredith Ann Pierce

• The darkangel YAF/PIER

• A gathering of gargoyles YAF/PIER

• The exchange student by Kate Gilmore YAF/GLIM

• Companions of the night by Vivian Vande Velde YA PB

• City of bones by Cassandra Clare YAF/CLAR

• A great and terrible beauty by Libba Bray YAF/BRAY

• Boys that bite by Marianne Mancusi  YA PB

• The host: a novel by Stephenie Meyer F/MEYE and YAF/MEYE

Complicated Hearts

• Squashed by Joan Bauer YAF/BAUR
• Hard love by Ellen Wittlinger YAF/WITT
• Whistle me home by Barbara Wersba YAF/WERS
• Monsoon summer by Mitali Perkins YA PB
• Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen F/AUST
• Cross my heart by Maureen McCarthy YAF/MACC
• Nicola and the viscount by Meg Cabot. YA PB
• Love, ghosts and nose hair by Steven Herrick YAF/ HERR
• To catch a prince by Gillian McKnight YAF/MACK

Thriller

• Tenderness by Robert Cormier YAF/ CORM

• Son of the mob by Gordon Korman YAF/ KORM

 Fantasy

• Sunlight and shadow by Cameron Dokey YA PB
• The princess bride : S. Morgenstern’s classic tale of true love and high adventure by William Goldman  F/GOLD
• The hunter’s moon by O. R. Melling YAF/MELL
• The Truth-Teller’s tale by Sharon Shinn YAF/SHIN
• Sorcery and Cecelia, or, the enchanted chocolate pot : being the correspondence of two young ladies of quality regarding various magical scandals in
• London and the country by Patricia C. Wrede SCI-FI PB
• Once upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris YAF/FERR
• Belle : a retelling of “Beauty and the beast” by Cameron Dokey YA PB
• Snow : a retelling of “Snow White and the seven dwarfs” by Tracy Lynn  YA PB
• Before midnight : a retelling of cinderella by Cameron Dokey YAF/DOKE 

Contemporary

Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series by Louise Rennison

• Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging: confessions of Georgia Nicholson YA PB

• On the bright side, I’m now the girlfriend of a sex god YAF/ RENN

• Dancing in my nuddy-pants YAF/ RENN

• Then he ate my boy-entrancers: more mad, marvy confessions of Georgia Nicholson YAF/ RENN

• Startled by his furry shorts YAF/ RENN

• Luurve is a many trousered thing YAF/ RENN

• Stop in the name of pants: fab new confessions of Georgia Nicholson YAF/ RENN

Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot

• The Princess Diaries YA PB

• Princess in the spotlight YAF/ CABO

• Princess in love JF/ CABO

• Princess lessons: a princess diaries guide YAF/ CABO

• Princess diaries guide to life: discover your inner princess YA PB

• Princess diaries: give me five YAF/ CABO

• The Princess files: YA PB

• Perfect princess YAF/ CABO

• Princess in pink YAF/ CABO

• Princess diaries: sixtational YA PB

• Princess diaries: Mia’s Christmas YA PB

• The princess present: a princess diaries book YA PB

• Princess in training YAF/ CABO

• The princess diaries guide to Christmas YA PB

• Seventh heaven YA PB

• Party princess YA PB

• Sweet sixteen princess YAF/ CABO

• After eight JF/ CAB

• Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin YA PB

• Mates, dates and cosmic kisses by Cathy Hopkins YAF/HOPK

• Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli YAF/SPIN

• Plain Rude by Linda Aronson YA PB

• With lots of love from Georgia by Brigid Lowry YAF/LOWR

• Summer boys by Hailey Abbott YA PB

• Merrow by Louise Cooper YA PB

• What a week omnibus : books 1-3 by Rosie Rushton YA PB

• Something in the world called love by Sue Saliba YA PB

• One girl, two decks and three degrees of love by Jonny Zucker YA PB

• Love struck by Rachael Wing YA PB

• Guitar highway Rose by Brigid Lowry YAF/LOWR

• Follow the blue by Brigid Lowry YA PB


 

With lots of <3 <3 <3 from the Stanton crew.