Everyone at Text Publishing is completely devastated by the death of the extraordinary YA writer Steph Bowe.

Submissions for the 2020 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing are now open.

This month’s featured classic is Myself When Young, the unfinished autobiography of one of the great Australian novelists, Henry Handel Richardson – a lively and revealing self-portrait of the artist as a young woman.

 
‘A gorgeous coming-of-age story that is both charming and deeply moving.’ Guardian on The Getting of Wisdom