Next meeting s of BookNest Writing Group, June 5. A reversion to  our "usual" schedule of yellow bin day, 2pm to 4pm at MIRA (but sometimes every second yellow bin day).

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Cup day weekend (scheduled) Awards event for 2023 Writing Competition.

Details later.

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July 31 2023. Closing date for 2023 Writing Competition.

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May 22, 2023. Opening date for 2023 Writing Competition. Details available here.

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January 28, 2023. Event at MIRA with over 60 attendees. Announcement of results of 2022 writing competition with presentations of certificates and readings and overview comments from our judge Jo  Scicluna. Main results here.  More about event.

Results with links to entries here.

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November 11, 2022. Entries for writing competition closed. Judging commenced.

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November 1, 2022. The BookNest prize at the Marysville Art Show was won by Karen McGregor for her thread painting of a rainbow lorikeet.

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August 2022. Establishing BookNest Writing Competition (click here for details) for local writers. 

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August 1 2022. Inaugural meeting of BookNest Writing Group. Subsequent meetings on 15, 29  August ..

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2022. BookNest have again made donations to Marysville Kindergarten and Marysville and Buxton Primary Schools to support children's reading and writing.

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2022. BookNest have again made a donation to  the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. 

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation provides books and reading materials for remote indigenous communities.

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11 am October 31, 2021

Launch of Community Art Library. at MIRA as part of ArtsFest.

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Cup day weekend, 2021.

Art show. The BookNest prize at the 2021 Marysvllle Art Show was awarded to Alexandra-based author and illustrator Bev Aisbett for her painting All the Little Souls. A gallery of her work is at 

https://www.bevaisbettartofanxiety.com/bevs-gallery.html 

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In between lockdowns: 2021

Community Art Library. BookNest received a donation of several hundred art books for a community browsing collection in MIRA. BookNest is contributing to the costs of building shelving, a task that was undertaken by a group, led by Bon McNamara, at the Men's Shed.

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Planned 2021

Local writers. A series of afternoon and evening events with recently published local writers. Plans on hold due to pandemic restrictions.

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April 30, 2021, 6pm to 8pm at MIRA. Second local writers event.

A Different Kind of Seeing. Marie Younan and Jill Sanguinetti.

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April 10, 2021. 1pm to 3pm MIRA.

Book launch of The Other Side of the World, by Anne Richey who talked about

her book and the process of publishing. This was the first of our local writers events.

Anne's book is available from MIRA or Kindle edition from Amazon.

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January 26, 2021.

Third anniversary - low key due to Covid restrictions.

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January 2021. Donation to Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

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November 21, 2020.

Re-opened, operating primarily on outside tables, once restrictions were relaxed and travel from Melbourne permitted.

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November, 2020

Covid-safe plan developed.

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November 2020

Donations to Marysville and Buxton Primary Schools and Marysville Kindergarten to support reading and writing activities.

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June 27-28, 2020.

Re-opened  for weekends in school holidays with a very successful first weekend, but bad weather prevented us opening on the following weekend, and then came the Melbourne lockdown.

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March 21, 2020.

BookNest shop closed in response to Covid19 pandemic.

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February 2020. Donation to Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

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November 23, 2019

Reading our writing. At MIRA. Nine participants from our writing workshops read pieces of their work. Click here for program.

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November 11, 2019

Seven steps to writing young adult and children's stories. The last of our writing workshops. Presented by award-winning author Elizabeth Fensham, author of nine novels for children and young adults.

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November 2-6, 2019

Marysville Art Show. The Marysville BookNest sponsored a prize which was won by Monbulk artist Dianne Bloemhoff for the painting "Spring Welcome".

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October 2019

Donations to Marysville and Buxton Primary Schools and Marysville Kindergarten to support reading activities.

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October 2019

BookNest was again a sponsor of the Jazz and Blues weekend.

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August 20, 2019

Writing about things that matter. Our fourth  writing workshop, with Israeli-Australian author Lee Kofman.

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June 25, 2019

Writing poetry. Our third writing workshop with poet, educator and performer Emilie Zoey Baker.

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April 30, 2019

Short story writing. Our second workshop, with  novelist and short-story writer Cate Kennedy.

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February 26, 2019

Writing a life. This was the first of our writing workshops, on writing memoirs, led by writer and human-rights advocate Arnold Zable. The series of five writing workshops is funded with generous support from the Marysville and Triangle Community foundation.

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November 28, 2018.

BookNest provide refreshments for Murrindindi Mobile Library On the Couch event at MIRA

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November 1-5, 2018

Marysville Art Show. The Marysville BookNest sponsored a prize which was won by Yarra Valley artist Jerry Osadczuk for his painting, 'Soft Landing'. Again, with more people in town for the art show, we had a good weekend for sales.

October 19-21, 2018

The 4th annual Jazz and Blues weekend was held in October and the Marysville BookNest was  bronze sponsor of this weekend. Despite a wet start on the Saturday we had an excellent weekend of sales.

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January 26, 2018

BookNest opened in replica of old police station.
 

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