Booktober

27/10/2025

There’s still one more week of Booktober!

This Thursday, 30 October, we’re celebrating Share Your Shelfie Day - a day to show off your bookish side and join in the fun.

📸 Post a piccie of your bookshelf (big or small, messy or majestic!), tag and WestWords, and you’ll go in the draw to win a book pack of four WestWords titles - your choice of children’s books, poetry, anthologies or novels.

Keep reading. Keep sharing. Keep rewriting the future.

23/10/2025

Just a few hours left!

Today is our very special Booktober Matching Day, part of AusArt Day, and every Booktober donation made until midnight is matched.

Your gift tonight helps WestWords bring writers into classrooms, spark creativity through workshops, and publish stories written by young people who are discovering the joy of reading - and the power of their own voice.

🎥 Watch our authors talk about why they believe in storytelling, then help us end the day strong:
💛 Donate now → booktober.org.au

Let’s finish this chapter together - with twice the stories, and twice the impact.

22/10/2025

Today only - Double the Story. Double the Impact.

It’s AusArt Day, Creative Australia’s national day for giving to the arts, and WestWords is celebrating with our very own Booktober Matching Day.

Every donation made today is matched, dollar for dollar, helping us bring professional writers into under-resourced schools across Western Sydney and regional NSW.

That means twice the workshops.
Twice the author visits.
Twice the children discovering that their stories matter.

🎥 Hear from our writers about why storytelling changes lives.
Then donate before midnight to double your impact at booktober.org.au

21/10/2025

Flashback to some fabulous words from the absolute legend that is Trent Dalton.

Congrats on your very well deserved win for Boy Swallows Universe in the Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century countdown.

WestWords and Booktober are absolutely committed to creating these amazing places, universes and sanctuaries for our young people to discover the power of books, the power of stories, and most importantly the power of being your own narrator.

We'd really love your support - if you can manage it - please consider donating at booktober.org.au

16/10/2025

Booktober 2025 is buzzing and something special is coming next week as we join AusArt Day, Creative Australia’s national celebration of giving to the arts.

It’s all about stories, creativity, and community - and we can’t wait to share what’s next.

But don’t wait to get involved! Every donation right now helps bring books and professional writers into schools across Western Sydney and regional NSW.

🎥 Watch the difference your support makes 👇
👉 Donate at booktober.org.au

WestWords

14/10/2025

“Through my eyes, through my pain.”
Meet Diya Vinoth Kumar, 10–12 years category winner of WestWords’ Living Stories competition from Penrith.

Programs like Living Stories give young people a safe place to write about their worlds, their challenges, and their hopes - and to see those words published. 💛

When you donate to Booktober, you’re helping make this possible.
Your gift funds the workshops, the writers, and the spaces where voices like Diya’s can be heard.

👉 Donate today at booktober.org.au
Let’s keep turning pages AND changing lives.

11/10/2025

📚 Today is Love Your Bookshop Day! ❤️
We wouldn’t be here without the incredible local bookshops that fuel our imaginations, keep stories alive and remind us why books matter.

Share your favourite local bookstore in the comments or tag them in your post - let’s show them some bookworm love! 🐛 And if you’re one of our wonderful bookworms, maybe include a cheeky link back to your Booktober profile to encourage support 😜

And while you’re celebrating books…Booktober 2025 is in full swing. Every page you read this month helps WestWords bring books and writers into classrooms across Western Sydney and regional NSW.

👉 Donate today, sign up or sponsor a Bookworm at booktober.org.au

BookPeople Gleebooks The Book Nest Mudgee Harry Hartog Bookseller - Penrith

10/10/2025

✨ Have you met our BookBassadors? They’re the faces of Booktober - sharing their stories, their shelves, and their love of books.

💬 Meet them here → www.booktober.org.au/blogs/bookbassadors

And don’t miss our Book Reviews -fresh reads, new releases, and personal picks from writers and readers just like you. With more incoming each week...first off the rank is The Drone by Pete Shmigel, Clare Capybara by Aleesah Darlison & Ruth-Mary Smith + Juniper's Painting by Catherine Bauer & Jennifer Horn
📖 Read reviews → www.booktober.org.au/blogs/book-reviews

Every review, every book, every Bookworm = another story shared and another child inspired to read.

👉 Support Booktober today: www.booktober.org.au

WestWords

07/10/2025

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki knows a thing or two about brains - and he’s here to tell you that reading lights them up in amazing ways!

Join Dr Karl (and all our Bookworms) this October for Booktober 2025.
📚 Read what you love
🌏 Support kids in Western Sydney & regional NSW
✨ Help us turn pages - and change lives

👉 Sign up today at www.booktober.org.au

WestWords

03/10/2025

Long weekend loading… the perfect excuse to lose yourself in a good book (guilt-free!).

Booktober 2025 has just begun and it’s not too late to join. Sign up as a Bookworm today and:
✨ Unlock book discounts (up to 30% off)
🎁 Win prizes
🌏 Help WestWords bring writers into under-resourced schools

Turn pages, change lives - and enjoy every chapter of your long weekend.

👉 Sign up now: booktober.org.au

01/10/2025

📚 It’s Day 1 of Booktober 2025!

Thousands of pages will be turned this month - and every single one helps WestWords bring professional writers into under-resourced schools across Western Sydney and regional NSW.

Haven’t signed up yet? It’s not too late!
✨ Read what you love
🎁 Unlock prizes + discounts
🌏 Support young people to discover the joy of books and storytelling

Join the Bookworm community today at www.booktober.org.au

Booktober - Sign up as a bookworm and fundraise to help kids doing it tough within the Greater Western Sydney region.

27/09/2025

📚 Just 5 days to go until Booktober kicks off!

Sign up as a Bookworm and unlock:

✨ Discount codes up to 30% off selected WestWords Books + WestWords Children’s range
🎁 Prizes to be won
📖 The perfect excuse to read loads and feel wonderfully bookwormy while doing good

Every page you read helps bring professional writers into schools across Western Sydney and regional NSW.

👉 Sign up today: booktober.org.au