NEW MEMBERS
This month we say goodbye to Barbara Mitchelhill and welcome in her place Laurie Graham, who will post on 11th June and subsequently on the 11th of each month. To find out about Laurie, have a look at the About Us page.
We are very sorry to say goodbye to Emma Darwin, who has been a History Girl from the beginning, but delighted to welcome Jane Borodale, whose first post will be on 22nd April and 22nd of each month thereafter. To read about Jane go to the About Us page.
FESTIVAL APPEARANCES
HISTORICAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION
This month we say goodbye to Barbara Mitchelhill and welcome in her place Laurie Graham, who will post on 11th June and subsequently on the 11th of each month. To find out about Laurie, have a look at the About Us page.
We are very sorry to say goodbye to Emma Darwin, who has been a History Girl from the beginning, but delighted to welcome Jane Borodale, whose first post will be on 22nd April and 22nd of each month thereafter. To read about Jane go to the About Us page.
FESTIVAL APPEARANCES
7th June 2012
H.M. Castor will be appearing at the Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye
30th June 2012
H.M. Castor will be appearing at the Chalke Valley History Festival
HISTORICAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Winning entries to be announced at the Historical Fiction Day on Sunday 5th August 2012
1st prize, the Jerwood Gridshell prize
£1,000 with story published in Sussex Life Magazine and Museum Magazine
sponsored by the Jerwood Foundation
2nd & 3rd prizes
£250 with story published in Museum Magazine
sponsored by the University of Chichester
Judges: novelists Kate Mosse, Emma Darwin, Jane Borrodale,
Museum Director Richard Palethorpe, Arts Editor Sussex Newspapers Phil Hewitt, Historian Danae Tankard
Look here for the Competition flyer and the website Weald & Downland Museum
AWARDS and HONOURS
Congratulations to Theresa Breslin for taking the Teenage Prize Section of the Young Quills Award 2011 with Prisoner of the Inquisition (Doubleday)
The Historical Association introduced the awards two years ago in recognition of the important role fiction can play in introducing children and young people to history.
History Girl Barbara Mitchelhill has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal with her Run, Rabbit, Run. Congratulations to her too.
Louisa Young's My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You (HarperCollins) was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize and The Costa Award. The audiobook of it, read by Dan Stevens (of dishy Downton Abbey fame), won the Galaxy Book Award 2011 in its category. Many congratulations to her (and to Dan).
My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You is one of only eight novels chosen as a Richard and Judy Spring Book 2012.
And Essie Fox's The Somnambulist (Orion) will be on the More4 TV Book Club on 12th February. (Michelle Lovric's The Book of Human Skin (Bloomsbury) was on this show last summer).
Go History Girls!
Barbara Mitchelhill's Run Rabbit Run won the Stockton Book of the Year Award!
FESTIVAL APPEARANCES
9th June 2012
Celia Rees is appearing at the Hay Festival with Melvin Burgess.
5th July 2012
Mary Hoffman will be appearing at the 2nd Manchester Metropolitan University Children's Literature Festival.
13th August 2012
Celia Rees will be at the Edinburgh Festival in conversation with Sally Gardner.
WRITING COURSES
History Girl Eve Edwards (as Julia Golding) will be teaching with Marcus Sedgwick on the course Writing for Children at the Arvon Centre in Lumb Bank 21-26 May 2012. Midweek speaker is another History Girl, Mary Hoffman.
Celia Rees will be teaching with Martyn Bedford on the course Writing for Young Adults at the Arvon Centre in Lumb Bank 20 - 25 August, 2012. Midweek speaker is Bali Rai, who is not any kind of girl at all.
CONFERENCE
Children’s Writers and Illustrators Group (CWIG) Joined-Up Reading Conference 2012:
University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus
Friday 14 to Sunday 16 September 2012
Details to be found at: www.cwigconference.com
Several History Girls are members of CWIG, which is a sub-group of the Society of Authors
