As a part of the new push for children’s vaccination, the Department of Health has launched a new video campaign. 🎥🎥

Many of our speakers, including Nat Amoore, Tristan Bancks, Oliver Phommavanh, Huda Hayek, Maxine Beneba Clark and Andy Griffiths, have created videos to be shown in vaccination hubs, encouraging and congratulating Victorian children on their courage, and entertaining them while they wait! 🌟🌟

Watch out for these gorgeous videos, and tag us in any photos! You can find us on Instagram at @bookedoutagency and Facebook at @BookedOutAgency

Happy 2022! 🌟🎉🎆

We hope you had a wonderful summer break, with a chance to relax and make some progress on your to-be-read list 📚

We’re so excited for a big year ahead, full of school visits, library events, festivals and more. We’re back in the office and looking forward to helping you with your big 2022 plans.

You can get in touch about a speaking engagement, either by sending us an email or giving us a call on (03) 9824 0177.

What a year! Here at Booked Out we’re feeling excited for a break and a chance to enjoy some lovely sunshine ⛱

We’d also like to take a moment to say a big thank you and congratulations to our amazing speakers for all their work over the year. 

Our office is closing today, but we’ll be back again on Monday 17th January, refreshed and ready to organise bookings galore for 2022.

In the meantime, we wish you  a very safe, restful and happy summer break, and see you again in 2022!

Drumroll please… We are super excited to announce the long-awaited return of touring authors in 2022!

After two years of lockdowns and closed borders, we can’t wait for a fresh start in 2022, and what better way to celebrate than to fill the calendar with an extravaganza of school visits from travelling speakers. You can see a list of scheduled tours here – have a look at who’ll be touring to your state, and get in quick to make a booking. Watch this space as we’ll be updating you with more touring authors soon!

You can contact us on (03) 9824 0177 or send us an email  to get the ball rolling on an enquiry before the year ends. We’ll be on break from the 16th December and back on deck on the 17th January to help you book an author visit in 2022 🎉

There’s some good news for all our schools in New South Wales! Though one of the main speaking agencies in NSW for authors and illustrators has made the decision to close, Booked Out will now be representing many new NSW based speakers 💛🎉✨

Some faces will be familiar – Oliver Phommavanh, Nat Amoore, Tim Harris,  Deb Abela and Jacqueline Harvey to name a few – and we’re very excited to introduce some wonderful new speakers too! First cab off the rank is Mick Elliott,  who can give talks about his hilarious kids’ books and run both writing and cartooning workshops to inspire your students to dive into their own creative projects.

Through the year, we’ll also be touring many well-known interstate authors in Sydney – watch this space! 🤩

We’re looking for a new superstar part-time Booking Coordinator to join the friendly Booked Out team at our office in the heart of Fitzroy (with some days WFH). ⁣
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If you love books, authors and publishing, this is a special opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of words by helping organise speaker events, mainly for authors and illustrators to visit primary & secondary schools 📚💚⁣
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Our speakers hail from a broad range of disciplines, but are all tied together by the written word and a passion for progress.⁣
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We work nation-wide with hundreds of talented and famous authors, including Morris Gleitzman, Tristan Bancks, Jackie French and Alice Pung. ⁣
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To apply, please read the full position description here: https://www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/bookedout/booking-coordinator-1 ✨⁣
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We welcome all applications, and if you think you know someone who might be perfect for this role, please feel free to let them know we are hiring.⁣
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We look forward to hearing from you! 🙌

We cannot wait to introduce you to our newest speaker – Ren Alessandra has recently joined us here at Booked Out and we are very excited to welcome her.

Ren is a poet and spoken word artist, and in 2020 won the Australian Poetry Slam Championship. She is a passionate advocate of poetry as an art form, with its ability to empower, educate and connect young people. In Ren’s own words:

‘There’s nothing I love more than working with young people to give them an opportunity to show themselves how powerful they are when they speak up.’

To enquire about booking a speaking engagement with Ren, get in touch at bookings@bookedout.com.au, or over the phone on (03) 9824 0177.

We are excited that we will hopefully be back to face-to-face office hours soon but before that, we will not be operating over the long weekend. Our staff will be out of the office on both Monday and Tuesday, lapping up this particularly exciting post-lockdown weekend. We hope you enjoy it too!

YABBA-Dabba-Doo!⁣ 😱🥳🙌
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Congratulations to the wonderful winners of the 2022 YABBA Awards, one of our favourite and best children’s literature organisations around 💕
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Hurrah to the winners and also to the magnificent shortlist, which featured many familiar Booked Out faces!

✨ Tomorrow is Love Your Bookshop Day! ✨