Illustrated cover of “Summer of Shipwrecks” shows a teen girl sitting on a beach next to a small hole and two teens girls with their backs to her, arms around each other’s shoulders.

Delighted that “Summer of Shipwrecks” by the fabulous
@shivaun.bsky.social is shortlisted for the Queensland Children’s Book Award! Judges’ comment: “A quintessentially Australian coming-of-age novel with a huge heart.”

#bookSky #UQP #childrensbookaward #MG #middlegrade

Congratulations to #sianglu who has won the #milesfranklinliteraryaward for his superlative novel #GhostCities It was first shortlisted for the 2024 #QLAadultfictionaward & #qldpeopleschoiceaward when I was panel chair.
Ghost Cities is an ingenious celebration of books, art and their creators. #UQP

Image of cover of book The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.

Today's review:
Ann Skea on Rachel Morton's prize-winning debut novel The Sun Was Electric Light -- "Her novel is strange, thoughtful and honest and, in the end, full of life and love .."
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/rachel-morto...
#UQP
#AustralianWriters
#BookSky 💙 📚

1/13/25 Kansas #ufo #uqp #ufosighting #orb

Timelapse 1/21/25 Kansas #ufo #uqp #ufosighting

#YOUR STORY, so close, almost there, POW!! Only #YOU can make it happen...with help from A$20,000 and publication by University of Qld Press ( #UQP). The David Unaipon Award for Emerging Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander Writer is an annual prize for #unpublished writers from country. #booksky

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: a cult self-help book encourages detachment – but is that what we need? A 2015 book by a psychologist who works with adult children of emotionally immature parents has taken off on social media, ‘validating’ its readers. But is it any good?

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: a cult self-help book encourages detachment – but is that what we need? Every story is different in families. My young readers' verse novel out 1 May explores one of these stories. #UQP theconversation.com/adult-childr...

A very happy (slightly belated) book birthday to Curtis Campbell for the gorgeous debut novel The House of Rural Realness from UQP Books!

-LGBTQIA+ YA
-friendships & growing up
-Drag Queens!!

Read my full review at ArtsHub: www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews...

#curtiscampbell #uqp #books