#LoveOzYA becomes registered charity

The Australian Young Adult Literature Alliance, a grassroots organisation established in 2015 to promote Australian youth literature and more popularly known by the hashtag #LoveOzYA, has become a registered charity and has created a crowdfunding campaign to support its work.

The organisation is planning a ‘new-and-improved website, specifically designed so our distinct audiences—educators, writers, and readers—can easily find the latest news, interviews, book lists, and classroom resources showcasing Australia’s young adult stories’.

‘Our research suggests Australian readers and educators want to support homegrown young adult literature, but don’t always know where or how to find it—which is where #LoveOzYA comes in,’ says #LoveOzYA secretary Alice Boer-Endacott.

The organisation is hosting a ‘#LoveOzYA Pozible Party’ to kickstart its fundraising, with participants able to ‘buy’ party favours correlating to different contribution amounts.

For more information see the campaign page here.

Category: Local news