Who can sign up for the Australian Women Writers 2013 challenge? Everyone: male, female, reader, writer, teacher, librarian, bookseller, publisher, Australian and non-Australian.
Whether you decide to read and review, or read only, please fill in the Google form below.
Participants who have a blog or belong to GoodReads are encouraged to write a “sign up” post detailing your goals for the year. This may include a list of books you plan to read or the number and/or type of books you’re interested in reading. Add the link to your sign-up post in the form below.
If you have a blog, please display the AWW 2013 “badge” (above right) on the sidebar of your blog, with a link back to this page. You can download the badge by right-clicking on the image and saving to your hard-drive before uploading to your site.
Whether you’re reading and reviewing, or reading only, there are a number of ways you can participate in the challenge. Share your reading and/or reviews:
You can also join in, whether or not you’re formally signed up, by visiting and commenting on people’s review pages and blogs. You’ll find lists of books reviewed both for 2012 and 2013 on the AWW Review Listings page.
Once you’ve signed up, you should see your name, along with the names of other participants, here. (You’ll need to scroll down.) When you’ve written a review, add your link here. For essays, articles and interviews or other non-review AWW-related posts, you can add links here.
Level of challenge: read only, or read and review
Stella: read 4 – if reviewing, review at least 3
Miles: read 6 – if reviewing, review at least 4
Franklin: read 10 – if reviewing, review at least 6
Create your own challenge: nominate your own goal
mdbrady
/ November 30, 2012Not sure I signed up correctly. Did I hit all the right buttons.
Elizabeth Lhuede
/ November 30, 2012Hi Marilyn. Did you press “submit”? The form doesn’t appear to have recorded your sign-up. If all it working as it should, your name should automatically appear on the database of challenge participants and it’s not there. Try again, and let me know if there’s a problem.
Jessie
/ December 12, 2012I was wondering if re-reads were acceptable for this challenge.
Elizabeth Lhuede
/ December 30, 2012Hi Jessie, Sorry for the delay replying. Re-reads are acceptable – especially if accompanied by a review.
thejessiebelle
/ January 1, 2013It’s no problem, thank you for the reply though! And thanks, there are a few books I’m hoping to reread (and one I know I will reread) that I haven’t reviewed yet, so I’m going to try to do that.
Mindy
/ December 27, 2012Sorry, forgot to specify what my challenge is: I plan to read at least 10 books and review at least 6 books by Indigenous authors in 2013.
Elizabeth Lhuede
/ December 30, 2012Hi Mindy, thanks for joining up. I’ve changed the spreadsheet to reflect your choice. (And you’ve reminded me that I need to put up a list of Indigenous authors.) Good luck with the challenge. I look forward to seeing your reviews.
Jess
/ December 29, 2012Hey,
I just signed up for the challenge and my name has appeared at the bottom of the sign up list, but I clicked mixed for what I wanted to read for the challenge, and for some reason its listed three genres as what I’ll be reading. Does this matter? Is there anyway to change it?
Elizabeth Lhuede
/ December 30, 2012Hi Jess, Thanks for signing up. I don’t know how that happened, and thanks for letting us know. I’ve fixed it on the spreadsheet now. Looking forward to seeing your contributions to the challenge.
Jess
/ January 28, 2013Thank you! Having so much with this challenge already.
Jess
/ February 3, 2013Hey Elizabeth,
I’ve recently started a blog – The Never Ending Bookshelf http://www.theneverendingbookshelf.blog.com and was wondering if it could be added to my details for this sign up.
I wrote an introductory signup/Australian Women’s Writer’s challenge 2013 post that can be found here: http://theneverendingbookshelf.blog.com/2013/02/02/australian-womens-writers-challenge-2013/
and was wondering if it was possible to change my name to Jess@ The Never Ending Bookshelf. It’s all good if it can’t be done, just wanted to keep the details current.
Elizabeth Lhuede
/ February 4, 2013Done! Thanks, Jess. I’ve removed your GoodReads link and replaced it with your new blog.
claire holderness
/ December 29, 2012How do I know if my sign up went through?
Elizabeth Lhuede
/ December 30, 2012Hi Claire, Thanks for signing up. If you scroll down towards the bottom, you can see where you’ve signed up (and the other participants) here: http://auswomenwriters.weebly.com/2013-challenge-participants.html
Also thanks for alerting us that this should be put somewhere more prominently. Hope you enjoy the challenge, and look forward to seeing your reviews.
claire holderness
/ December 30, 2012Hi I just wanted to say that my goal is to read as many books as i can
Elizabeth Lhuede
/ December 30, 2012Hi Claire – that’s a great goal. Good luck!
Schmeedle
/ January 4, 2013I’ve accidentally signed up twice because my computer hiccuped the first time. Can the first one be deleted? I’ll go for the 10! (Haven’t decided on specific reads yet.)
Elizabeth Lhuede
/ January 6, 2013Hi Schmeedle, Thanks for signing up. First one deleted, as requested.
Teddyree
/ January 7, 2013My first year participating in AWW, I’m looking forward to it
Emma
/ January 20, 2013Hi, signed up and looking forward to it – am I able to change my sign in name from “a splash of vanilla” to Emma@a splash of vanilla?
Elizabeth Lhuede
/ January 21, 2013Hi Emma, I’ve changed your sign up name. Thanks for joining. I look forward to seeing what you choose to read and review.
claire holderness
/ February 5, 2013Hi I wondered if you can add my goodreads link to my profile http://www.goodreads.com/craneclaire
thanks
Claire
Elizabeth Lhuede
/ February 5, 2013Done!
claire holderness
/ February 5, 2013Thank you
Olivia Ashe, writer
/ May 8, 2013I think I signed up for this but I’m not sure. Could you please tell me?
KerrieS
/ May 23, 2013I’ve now read 12 titles but will continue to add more to my lists. My summary so far is at http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/australian-reading-challenges-completed.html