Danielle Binks

Danielle Binks is an editor, book blogger, literary agent and youth literature advocate. She edited and contributed to Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, of new Australian young adult writing by some of Australia’s favourite YA authors and inspired by the grassroots #LoveOzYA movement, which is currently shortlisted in the Inky Awards. Find her at daniellebinks.com.

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What’s In A Name: The End of the Centre for Youth Literature
Culture
14 Mar, 2019

What’s In A Name: The End of the Centre for Youth Literature

Danielle Binks

State Library Victoria’s recent decision to retire its Centre for Youth Literature brand has been met with dismay and anger from youth literature advocates. The Library emphasises that its youth programming will not change – so what is being lost?

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14 Mar, 2019

What’s In A Name: The End of the Centre for Youth Literature

Danielle Binks

Are Writer’s Festivals Catering for the Next Generation?
Culture
07 Sep, 2018

Are Writer’s Festivals Catering for the Next Generation?

Danielle Binks

Amid the hand-wringing over who does and doesn’t deserve a platform at the Melbourne Writers Festival, the perennially overlooked teen and genre communities are seemingly being forgotten once again – and are creating alternative festivals of their own.

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07 Sep, 2018

Are Writer’s Festivals Catering for the Next Generation?

Danielle Binks

We Read To Know We Are Not Alone: Examining the Lack of LGBTQI Characters in Australian Youth Literature
Culture
20 Jul, 2014

We Read To Know We Are Not Alone: Examining the Lack of LGBTQI Characters in Australian Youth Literature

Danielle Binks

‘We read to know we are not alone,’ – the character of C.S. Lewis says this line in William Nicholson’s play, Shadowlands. To know that someone else shares our embarrassments, fears, doubts, longings…or if not shares them, has at least had the thought flitter across their mind – that is everything. But what if you […]
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20 Jul, 2014

We Read To Know We Are Not Alone: Examining the Lack of LGBTQI Characters in Australian Youth Literature

Danielle Binks