Dragons in the Metcalfe!

The 2011 Readers Advisory seminar held at the State Library of NSW on Wednesday 9 March.

The theme for this seminar, by popular demand, was Fantasy. You can look at photographs from the seminar.

• Brent Weeks, author of The night angel trilogy and The black prism presented by Skype. @brentweeks
• Rowena Specht-Whyte, an Aurealis Awards judge will introduce you to Australian fantasy
  

The Aurealis Awards' list of Fantasy Novel winners is within the full list of winners in all categories at this link:

• Five slides in two Minutes – mini talks including Heather Thomson, Anne Duffield and Martin Mantle (non-Western motifs, disability and fantasy literature)

• Stock quality health checkEllen Forsyth

• Sofia Morales from Galaxy Books provides an introduction to the sub genres of Fantasy – What’s hot, what’s not, what’s going to be hot over the next 12 months

• What is your fantasy? Small group discussion about Fantasy book read for the day led by Jenn Martin

• Sally Dowling, Acting Children's and Young Adult Librarian at Waverley will bring a young adult librarians perspective

• RA and Twitter Vassiliki Veros from City of Sydney Library provides some great ideas and examples

• Bookbinge and Readit2011 Cathy Johnston

• Garth Nix author of Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series, Troubletwisters (with Sean Williams) and much much more

#ra2011 and you can even buy a t-shirt with this tag on it.

You can read further reports on the seminar from Cathy Johnston (part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight, part nine), and find out about the popularity of the slideshows from this seminar (lots and lots of people have been looking at them).