Time for another giveaway!

Echo Publishing is offering 5 copies of Free by Meg Keneally.

How To Enter: 

1. Ensure you are subscribed to the HNSA newsletter. hnsa.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=49…

2. Leave a comment to go into the draw.

Contest ends 21 May at 5pm AEST.
Good luck!

2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize Early Bird entry ends midnight tonight!

General entry fees will apply from 8 May 2024.

Entries Close: 12 June at 5pm

Click the link below to enter. hnsa.org.au/ara-historical…

2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize Early Bird entry ends next Tuesday!

General Entries Open: 8 May
Entries Close: 12 June at 5pm
Longlists Announced: 4 September
Shortlists Announced: 25 September
Winners Announced: 17 October

Click below to enter!
hnsa.org.au/ara-historical…

Who's missing from our screens?

Tell us which real-life historical character you think deserves their own film or TV show. Drop your answers in the comments below.
#UntoldHistories #HistoryOnScreen #hnsa #historicalfiction #writing #epicstories

Did you know, as a student, her first 400-page draft was stolen from her car, pausing her writing for 5 years. Balancing law, she rewrote it, spending 12 years to publish the 936-page Richard III tale in 1982.

What's your favourite memories of Sunne In Splendour?

Our 2024 season of Imagining the Past has kicked off! Our first episode features Amelia Mellor, winner of the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize - CYA category. Amelia discusses her award-winning novel, The Bookseller’s Apprentice.

Listen to the podcast - audioboom.com/posts/8491111-…

The #ARAHistoricalNovelPrize is open for entries. Now with $150,000 in prize monies, it's the richest #literaryprize in Australasia thanks to ARA Group sponsorship. Enter now. hnsa.org.au/ara-historical… #historicalfiction #historicalnovels #HNSA #writingprize #history

Enjoy our illustrated reading by Gail Jones from Salonika Burning, winner of the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize Adult category! youtube.com/watch?v=huFF8s… #AHNP2023 #literaryprize #historicalfiction #Thessaloniki

Kelly Gardiner HNS Australasia Lovely to catch up with you. A great conference indeed and for me, a huge boost in terms of feeling like I am getting closer to my publishing goals. Winning the Pitch Contest a major highlight for me 💕🖊️

Congratulations Robyne Young
#writerspitch #hnsa2023

Alison D Stegert HNS Australasia I was thrilled to meet and hug you, too! So proud of you, Ali! And your gorgeous middle grade book is currently hanging out my YA Tudor novel, waiting me to wrap it up for Christmas present for my great niece. Hope to see you again in the not too distant future! xxx

Tom Keneally performing rap (poetry) at HNS Australasia conference was a bit unexpected

Today I 'm at the HNS Australasia conference & so it seemed a good time to share an interview I did with Elisabeth Storrs who founded the HNSA. She also wrote a great series of books set in ancient Etruscan times.  

Read the whole interview on her blog: elisabethstorrs.com/interview-with…

I was thrilled to finally get to give my mentor Dr Wendy J. Dunn a hug. She worked with me in 2021 on The Remarkables thanks to the EJ Corbett Mentorship I won from HNS Australasia.

Really thrilled to be a part of the HNS Australasia Conference 2023 in Sydney this weekend. Met some lovely people, rubbed shoulders with some writers I admire, and spoke on a panel about writing engaging historical fiction for kids.

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Congratulations to HNS Australasia on another brilliant conference - some great panels and guests, with on site and online access, and it was so good to connect and reconnect with all our historical fiction/genre friends old and new, and talk books. See you next time!

A wonderfully inspiring opening! #historicalfiction #WritingCommmunity

Love #HistoricalFiction ? Book your ticket to our Historical Novel Society Australasia 2023 Conference - tickets available this Sunday in person or live stream.
Our fabulous program and snap up your ticket now! hnsa.org.au/2023-hnsa-conf… #HistoricalBooks #writers #storytelling

Kelly Gardiner interviews Melissa Lucashenko, literary award winning author, who discusses her first foray into #HistoricalFiction with her parallel narrative, Edenglassie, which boldly reclaims and reframes colonial accounts.