Episode 60

It’s our 18 month anniversary and our podcast is now middle-aged (60th episode, yahoo!).  We chat to two wonderful authors and the Mini Mavens pop in to offer their opinions on some new-release junior fiction – The League of Llamas books 3 and 4 by Aleesah Darlison and Hodgepodge by Lili Wilkinson.

Jane Godwin is a highly acclaimed author of over twenty-five books for children, across all styles and ages. Her work is published internationally and she has received many commendations, including the Queensland Premier’s Award (Children’s Books), the Aurealis Award and the Animal Welfare Award, and shortlistings in the CBC Book of the Year Awards, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the New South Wales State Literary Award (Patricia Wrightson Prize) the YABBA Awards, the Speech Pathology Awards, The Family Award for Children’s Books, and the Australian Book Industry Awards.

Julianne Negri was a 2018 recipient of the Australian Society of Author’s Emerging Writer’s Mentorship Award. In 2014 she was runners up in the Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Award and in 2015 was Highly Commended in the Southern Cross Short Story Award. She currently works as a content writer for State Library of Victoria’s website Inside a Dog and for a public library running youth programs.

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