Bestselling authors Sally Hepworth and Andy Griffiths are respectively the inaugural Adult and Children’s Author Ambassadors for this year’s national Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) campaign, as announced by BookPeople, the association for Australian booksellers that is celebrating its centenary.
The authors’ remit is to amplify the organisation’s message about the special role bookshops play within their communities and encourage Australians to support their local bookshop on Saturday 12 October.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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