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Mark Rubbo interviews Geraldine Brooks
It’s always all about the stor…
The Readings Foundation grant recipients for 2011
Trustees of The Readings Foundation, including writer Helen Garner, Readings staff and donor Peter Donoghue (ex-managing director of Publishers John Wiley Australia) met in late November to award a record number of grants on behalf of the Readings Foundation. Funding totalling $62,500 will be granted to seven organisations to support projects that benefit literacy, community and the arts in Victo…
Readings Carlton wins Independent Bookseller of the Year 2010
Readings is thrilled to have been named Independent Bookseller of the Year 2010 for our Carlton shop at the Australian Book Industry Awards last night. It’s the second year running that the shop has won the award. Congratulations to the Carlton shop manager Robbie Egan, all the shop staff and Readings owner Mark Rubbo.
Readings Carlton, as seen from the back of the shop.
Other award highligh…
Readings Foundation Update: HIPPY and Sacred Heart Mission
The Home Interaction Program for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) foc…
Readings Foundation Update: Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Company
When Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Company received one of the 2009 inaugural grants from The Readings Foundation, we were elated. This was…
Readings Foundation Update: Olympic Adult Education
The two classes at Rosanna library funded by The Readings Foundation provide a wonderful and well-deserv…
Readings Foundation Update: Fitzroy Computer Clubhouse
The Fitzroy Computer Clubhouse provides a creative and safe after-school learning environment where over 150 young peopl…
Readings Foundation Update: Aboriginal Literacy Foundation
The weekly literacy tutoring program in Swan Hill funded by The Readings Foundation is well underway for 2010 and remains a key aspe…
Toni Jordan on the novels of Madeleine St John
I would like to invite Madeleine St John to tea. Or better yet, cocktails. After reading the three of her novels reissued by Text over the past year – The Women in Black, The Essence of the Thing, and A Stairway to Paradise – I feel I know her.
We would meet in a dimly lit bar filled with…
Readings announces its first Readings Foundation grant recipients
Readings’ Managing Director, Mark Rubbo, has just announced four successful recipients of The Readings Foundation grants.
Rubbo says: ‘We found it extremely difficult to select the projects from such a strong list of applicants. We only wish that we had more money to award more grants.’
The Foundation received 35 diverse applications for funding requests totalling over $500,000. The selection p…
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