LoveOzYA Pozible Party

Seven years since its inception as a passionate, proactive, and much-loved grassroots movement, #LoveOzYA – a national organisation celebrating and promoting Australian youth literature – has become a registered charity.

The Australian Young Adult Literature Alliance, more affectionately known by our social media hashtag #LoveOzYA, promotes Australian youth literature with a particular focus on supporting diverse representation and lived experience perspectives in Australian YA.

To celebrate this massive milestone, #LoveOzYA is hosting a ‘#LoveOzYA Pozible Party’ to give supporters of Australian YA the opportunity to kickstart #LoveOzYA’s work as a fully-fledged charity.

#LoveOzYA Pozible Party participants will be able to ‘buy’ party favours correlating to different contribution amounts – from $5 to $100 – to show their support for #LoveOzYA and its hard-working team of volunteers. As thanks, we'll email the corresponding image to you so you can share it on your socials for bragging rights, set it as your phone's lock screen, or if you're particularly keen, print out and frame!

#LoveOzYA Secretary, Alice Boer-Endacott, says the first item on the wish list is 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," Alice says.

"We're really excited about opportunities that will open up as a result of attaining charity status because they'll help us spread the word about amazing Australian young adult titles further than ever before."

Research suggests young Australians enjoy reading about people and places they can relate to, and directly benefit from stories that promote empathy, inclusivity, and diversity within Australian society and culture.

It also tells us that getting homegrown young adult stories into the hands of young Australians isn’t just a nice idea: Australian-based narratives allow Australian teens to self-conceptualise and to explore and interrogate Australian identity.

The majority of the raised funds will be going towards the creation of 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.

The remaining raised funds will be allocated to two areas, firstly, the creation of more free content for you, our audience, including more posters, more author Q&As and resources for our educators, writers and readers.

Secondly, the remaining funds will go towards strengthening our engagement with our community through our social media channels where we bring you the latest news, articles and events in a bite-sized format.

Our main goal of $5,000 will allow the #LoveOzYA committee and the Australian Young Adult Literature Alliance (AYALA) to focus on connecting and strengthening our wonderful community over the next 12 months through free content, free resources and a plethora of information and promotion.

Our first stretch goal of $7,000 will enable the #LoveOzYA and AYALA to look into the future, covering the expenses of the behind-the-scenes magic for an additional 12 months which will allow our incredible volunteers to focus on exciting future projects, increasing our engagement with our audience and promoting and strengthening the incredible community we are a part of.

Our second stretch goal of $12,000 if reached, will solidify #LoveOzYA and AYALA as an epicentre of information and support for our beloved community. Achieving this goal will also allow our volunteers to turn their full attention to exciting future projects that will strengthen and support the Australian young adult literature community by increasing engagement, promotion and connection.

As a young charity #LoveOzYA and AYALA is currently unable to receive tax-deductible gifts or donations at this time. This unfortunately means we will not be able to provide you with a tax-deductible receipt if you choose to donate to our Pozible party.