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Lindy West and Thordis Elva

Women
Non-fiction

Join us in celebrating Queensland Women’s Week this March for two important conversations as part of a powerful double bill.The more you see the more you save. Attend both events and save 25%.  Book Double Bill

Summer Reading Recommendations

There’s no Summertime Sadness in the UPLIT HQ this week – while our office is closed from Thursday 22 December until Monday 9 January, we’ll be diving into some good books, getting ready to bring you more author events and BWF17. After much discussion and brainstorming, here’s what we recommend you check out over Summer. Lara recommends… A.D. After Death by Jeff Lemire and Scott…

Hello to Zoe Pollock, our new CEO

Corporate
News

We are thrilled to welcome Zoe Pollock to the UPLIT team as our new Chief Executive Officer. Zoe – an arts and cultural leader with more than a decade’s experience in creative production, development and fundraising, and stakeholder engagement – will take up her new role at UPLIT in December. For six-and-a-half years, Zoe led the History Council of New South Wales to connect diverse audiences with history and…

RAG Road Trip – Day Four

Regional Engagement
News

What an amazing and productive trip. This has truly been a fitting conclusion to the Read Around Gladstone program. Over three jam-packed days, authors Samantha Wheeler and Lance Balchin presented to a total of 760 students and 88 adults (including teachers, librarians, parents and community members). Venues ranged from state of the art libraries to single teacher classrooms, from sports halls to music rooms,…

RAG Road Trip – Day Three

Regional Engagement
News

Bushfires! Snake alarms! It’s all just another day in the beautiful and resilient towns around the Gladstone. Today we visited Mount Larcom, a high-top with grades Prep-9, as well Nagoorin, a one-teacher school with 15 students ranging from Prep-Year 6. Students and teachers alike expressed their appreciation for the author visits. As one teacher said, it is rare enough for authors to visit Gladstone, but even…