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WEEKEND OVERNIGHTS: BOOKS ALIVE COMPETITION!
01/09/2011
Weekend Overnights are bringing ‘Books Alive’...

Yes that’s right; Weekend Overnights are celebrating ‘Books Alive 2011’ by giving you the chance to win one of three prize packs containing all 50 of the ‘Books Alive’ 2011 Top 50 Reads You Can’t Put Down. How’s that for a ‘to read’ list?

So what do you have to do to be in the running for this booktastic prize?

We here at Overnights love a good yarn and we would like you to create one for us. It’s doesn’t need to be the next epic paper weight, just a short story to entertain us.

In up to 150 words you will need to write an original short story exploring any topic, style, genre or theme. But there is one major rule – this story must contain three of the titles from the ‘Books Alive’ 2011 Top 50 Reads You Can’t Put Down.

The story must be an original work created specifically for this competition and make sense within its own separate context. Apart from being original, it should be entertaining, compelling and we want it to make us react – be it in a happy or sad way. Plus, spelling and grammar are important!

We want you to bring your story alive for us as all entries will be personally judged by the Weekend Overnights team.

Entries open at 9am on Sunday September 4th 2011 and close at midnight on Monday September 26th 2011. Our winners will be announced live on air on Friday September 30th 2011 and contacted directly.

To enter the competition online click here, you will need to state your Full Name and Email and have "Book Competition Entry" as the Subject. Alternatively you can send entries to:

ABC Radio, Overnights
GPO Box 9994,
Sydney, NSW, 2001
 

Happy writing and hopefully happy reading!

From the Weekend Overnights Team

THE 2011 TOP 50 BOOKS YOU CAN’T PUT DOWN

Title
  Author
 
Life Without Limits
 Nick Vujicic
 
Tamil Tigress
 Niromi de Soyza
 
Trouble Twisters
 Garth Nix  & Sean Williams
 
Mr Badger and the Big Surprise
 Leigh Hobbs
 
Museum of Thieves
 Lian Tanner
 
North Star
 Karly Lane
 
The Siren's Sting
 Miranda Darling
 
Listening to Country
 Ros Moriarty
 
Mice
 Gordon Reece
 
Prime Cut
 Alan Carter
 
Me of the Never Never
 Fiona O'Loughlin
 
True Spirit
 Jessica Watson
 
The Passage
 Justin Cronin
 
When God was a Rabbit
 Sarah Winman
 
One Day   (movie tie in)
 David Nicholls
 
Past the Shallows
 Favel Parrett
 
Rescue
 Anita Shreve
 
Billie B Brown: The Secret Message
 Sally Rippin & Aki uoka
 
A Little Bird Told Me
 Kasey Chambers
 
The Painted Man
 Peter V Brett
 
Caleb's Crossing
 Geraldine Brooks
 
Freedom
 Jonathan Franzen
 
In the Best Interests of the Game
 Darrell Hair
 
Baby Wombat's Week Board Book
 Jackie French & Bruce Whatley
 
Treasure Yourself
 Miranda Kerr
 
Blood on My Hands
 Craig Jurisevic
 
Last Chance Cafe
 Liz Byrski
 
African Dawn
 Tony Park
 
Plantation
 Di Morrissey
 
That Deadman Dance
 Kim Scott
 
How It Feels
 Brendan Cowell
 
The Korean War
 Cameron Forbes
 
Without Warning (Get Reading Edition)
 John Birmingham
 
Heroes of Olympus – The Lost Hero
 Rick Riordan
 
The left Hand of God
 Paul Hoffman
 
All That I Am
 Anna Funder
 
Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad
 Bee Rowlatt & May Witwit
 
Bloodlines
 Richelle Mead
 
The Snow Man
 Jo Nesbo
 
5 Bells
 Gail Jones
 
I Came to Say Goodybe
 Caroline Overington
 
Briny Café
 Susan Duncan
 
Passion
 Lauren Kate
 
The Gold Rush
 David Hill
 
The Golden Door: The Three Doors series
 Emily Rodda
 
The Hunger Games
 Suzanne  Collins
 
Lament
 Maggie Stiefvater
 
Blood Line
 Lynda La Plante
 
Sarah Thornhill
 Kate Grenville
 
The Flying Orchestra
 Clare McFadden
 

 

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