The Centre for Youth Literature promotes reading. It offers exciting and affordable book events for young people and professionals. Teenagers and children meet great writers and talented young actors - bringing reading to life. Professional learning programs and the biennial Reading Matters conference keep adults in touch with crucial issues and ideas in youth literature.
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The Centre for Youth Literature is generously supported by a range of sponsors.
Programs & Events
The Centre for Youth Literature develops and runs:
The Centre's 2010 program is proudly supported by The Age.
Keeping Young Australians Reading
This major 2009 Centre for Youth Literature report builds on 2001's Young Australians Reading. It details trends in young people's reading habits and provides information for professionals encouraging young Australians to read for pleasure.
Read the report Keeping Young Australians Reading >
Services
The Centre also provides a range of services for both young readers and professionals in the field.
Consultancy
Contact us to arrange for a member of the Centre for Youth Literature team to visit your staff or students to talk about latest books, strategies to promote reading, text selection or our Boys, Blokes, Books & Bytes program.
Insideadog website
The insideadog website is Australia's number one website about books for teenagers. It promotes Australian and international young adult literature in a language (and format) that young people understand. It features news, book reviews, a writer-in-residence blog, author interviews, links, competitions and lots of opportunity for contributions from young readers!
Inky Awards
The Inky Awards, inaugurated in 2007, recognise the best in Australian and international writing for young adults - as chosen by young people. Voting opens in September and the winning books are announced in November each year.
Newsletter
The Centre for Youth Literature now publishes a free e-newsletter three times a year (replacing the previously published paper newsletters). The e-newsletter covers CYL activities, plus interviews, articles on youth literature and reviews of wide range of Australian and international books. To subscribe email youthlit@slv.vic.gov.au.
Read Alert blog
Keep up to date with the latest information, current thinking and issues in youth literature via the Centre for Youth Literature's blog, Read Alert. Updated regularly, Read Alert features news, reviews, opinion, booklists, author information, youth literature events, and more.
Inquiries
Centre for Youth Literature
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Vic 3000
Phone: 03 8664 7014
Email: youthlit@slv.vic.gov.au | 
