More things to win!

Get the creative juices flowing and check out this excellent limerick competition from Inside a Dog - who knows, you might win a great prize!

Inky Award Winners

The Inkys are international awards for teenage literature, voted for online by the readers of insideadog.com.au. There are three awards: the Golden Inky for an Australian book, the Silver Inky for an international book, and the Creative Reading Prize, won by a young person for a creative response to a book they love, in any format they choose.

The 2011 Inky Award winners have just been announced.



The Gold Inky for the most popular Australian book for 2011 was won by James Moloney for his fantasy novel Silvermay.

The Silver Inky for the most popular international book went to Cassandra Clare for her Victorian-era fantasy Clockwork Angel.

For more info about the Inky Awards, and for heaps of ideas for great books to read, visit the Inside A Dog website

Inside a Dog - Updated

If you love everything about books and like to post reviews, talk about your reading and win great prizes, visit Inside a Dog!

http://www.insideadog.com.au/

The site is a place for teens to find great reads, and share their thoughts via reviews, blogs and book clubs. Read about an author's process with a new guest Writer in Residence each month, create your own profile and discuss the latest news in youth literature.

The Inky's Longlist

If you are ever sitting around thinking 'what do I read next', take a look at the website insideadog (http://www.insideadog.com.au/) - created by The Centre for Youth Literature, State Library Victoria - which promotes reading as an active, pleasurable and essential activity for all young people. The site contains reviews, a writer in residence and heaps of info about Australian and overseas books for young people.

They have also created the Inky Awards. The Inkys are international awards for teenage literature, voted for online by the readers of insideadog.com.au. There are three awards: the Golden Inky for an Australian book, the Silver Inky for an international book, and the Creative Reading Prize, won by a young person for a creative response to a book they love, in any format they choose.

The Longlist for the Inkys has just been released:

The 2009 Inkys Longlist

Broken Glass by Adrian Stirling

Everything Beautiful by Simmone Howell

Exposure by Mal Peet

Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Into White Silence by Anthony Eaton

Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen

Love, Aubrey by Suzanne La Fleur

My Candlelight Novel by Joanne Horniman

Paper Towns by John Green

Screw Loose by Chris Wheat

Skim by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki

Ten Mile River by Paul Griffin

The 10pm Question by Kate de Goldi

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Beginners Guide to Living by Lia Hills

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Two Pearls of Wisdom by Alison Goodman

Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Worldshaker by Richard Harland