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Reading Matters Conference 2013: A group of RAGE members attended this biennial conference held at Storey Hall, RMIT on Thursday 30th May, which brings together the writers of teenage fiction and their readers. The first author to speak was Raina Telgemeir, a graphic novelist from New York, who spoke to the audience about her love of comics as a child. She showed us some of her very early drawings and then spoke about how she continued to draw though adolescence and university. She began her career by adapting other writers’ novels as graphic novels. She has since written two graphic novels of her own and is writing a third. We then heard Myke Bartlett and John Flanagan talk about writing adventure stories. Both authors stressed the importance of research and of being observant. Myke commented that he now takes advantage of technology, using his iphone to take notes and Scrivener to write his books, while John Flanagan said he still likes pens and takes notes by hand.