We’re looking to engage with like-minded people and organisations who share our belief that reading is the key to becoming smarter, healthier and happier – whether as an individual, a business or a society.
If that sounds like you, and you’d like to get involved with our events in 2022 (either as a partner, host organisation, participant or attendee), please contact us on hello(at)australiareads.org.au.
Featuring: Chris Hammer, Cassie Hamer, Maya Linnell, Tabitha Bird, Monique Mulligan and Sandie Docker
Free!
Bookings essential.
Read aloud from your favourite book, or a poem, a picture book or an extract from a book of your own – or just relax, enjoy a drink and listen to readings from fellow booklovers. Please BYO drinks and a small plate to share.
468 West St, Toowoomba
Turn up on the night!
Featuring: Melati Lum, Annie McCann, Ozge Sevindik Alkan, Inda Ahmad Zahri
Free!
Watch on YouTube
Featuring: Adrian Beck, Nat Amoore, James Foley, Cristy Burne, Kate & Jol Temple and more!
Free! Suitable for 8-12 year olds
Join via Facebook
Free! Suitable for 3+ year olds, including a take home craft.
Bookings Essential. Brighton Library.
Featuring Sally Heinrich.
Free! Suitable for 8-12 year olds.
Bookings Essential. Glenelg Library.
Take a Sunday tea break and join us for one, two or all of the What Writers Read panels, where we’ll be zooming in to hear directly from some of Australia’s most respected and beloved authors as they talk all things books and storytelling.
Join us online for a chatty evening about the reading lives of some of Victoria’s most treasured personalities: Christian White, Nazeem Hussain, Tony Birch and Alice Pung. Hosted by Claire Hooper and Paul Kennedy.
Hear about the books that changed their lives, made them smile, and the book they would take to outer space. Their answers will surprise and delight you.
This statewide event will connect you to readers across Victoria and give you the opportunity to share your favourite books.
**SOLD OUT**
Celebrate Australian Reading Hour in your classroom with this inspiring event for young people featuring some of their favourite Australian writers and illustrators. Come behind the pages to discover how the stories we tell, real and imagined, help shape our sense of identity, belong and understanding, as individuals, communities, and as a nation.
Free for Secondary Schools and Libraries. Bookings Essential.
Celebrate Australian Reading Hour in your classroom with this fun event for kids featuring some of their favourite Australian writers and illustrators, including Adrian Beck, Nicole Hayes, Andrew Joyner, Lisa Harvey-Smith, Michael Wagner + many more!
Come behind the pages and discover how the best books are made, discover the magic of illustration, and learn how to read the stars in the night sky.
Free for Primary Schools and Libraries. Bookings Essential.
Last year we hosted three virtual events to celebrate the many benefits of reading.
Featuring: Judy Nunn, Peter Fitzsimons, Peter Helliar, Michael Robotham, Dervla McTiernan, Tanya Plibersek, Andy Griffiths, Nikki Gemmell, Anita Heiss, Virginia Trioli and more.
Featuring: Ursula Dubosarsky, Andy Griffiths, Bluey, Sami Bayly, Anna Fienberg, Osher Gunsberg, Peter Helliar, Jacqueline Harvey, Beck Feiner and more.
Are you ready for Australian Reading Hour 2021?
Ok, take a deep breath, and repeat after us.
“I will read or listen to an Australian book, whether written or drawn or illustrated or spoken aloud, wherever I may be, in city or bush, in the bath, in bed or up a tree, for one hour on Tuesday 14 September 2021. I will read silently or aloud, I will read by myself or in a crowd. I will read a story that matters to me.”
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