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New writers festival for Wollongong

Friday, 13 May 2022
The South Coast Writers Centre (SCWC) has announced a new literary festival, to take place in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. The South Coast Writers Festival will run...

Australian Reading Hour moves to March from 2023

Friday, 13 May 2022
Australia Reads has announced that its flagship event the Australian Reading Hour, which has run each year in September for the past decade, will not take place in 2022, with...

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022 winners announced

Thursday, 12 May 2022
The winners of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The NZ$60,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Aotearoa New Zealand's richest writing prize, went to Wellington...

New PRH longform mentoring program

Wednesday, 11 May 2022
The Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas (JNI) has partnered with Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) and the Copyright Agency on a new initiative to provide practical experience and...

UK publishing staff report stress, burnout

Wednesday, 11 May 2022
A survey by the Bookseller has found the UK publishing trade is facing ‘industry-wide burnout’, with nearly nine out of 10 (89%) respondents having experienced work-related stress over the past...

EWF 2022 program announced

Wednesday, 11 May 2022
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has revealed its 2022 festival program, which will take place from 15–25 June 2022. Following EWF’s successful pivot to an online format in response to...

Nightcrawling

Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Inspired by the true story of a shocking scandal underpinning a police department, Nightcrawling is a searing debut novel about vulnerability and survival from an astonishing young talent. Nightcrawling by...

Douglas-Kinghorn appointed Voiceworks editor

Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Express Media has announced Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn as the new editor of Voiceworks literary journal. Douglas-Kinghorn has been a member of the Voiceworks editorial committee for the past two years. As...

Pulitzer Prize winners announced

Tuesday, 10 May 2022
In the US, the winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. Joshua Cohen won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Netanyahus (Fitzcarraldo), which the judges described as...

WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced

Monday, 9 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2021 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer ($15,000) Debesa (Cindy Solonec, Magabala)...

Otmar awarded 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal

Friday, 6 May 2022
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Geelong-based writer, editor, researcher and trainer Renée Otmar as the winner of the the 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal for services to editing....

Ypi wins Ondaatje Prize for ‘Free’

Friday, 6 May 2022
In the UK, Lea Ypi has won the £10,000 (A$17,400) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for Free (Allen Lane), a coming-of-age memoir set amid political upheaval in Albania. The...

The meteoric rise of manga

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Books+Publishing investigates what’s behind the current manga boom, and how it’s impacting publishers’ local comics and graphic novel lists. It’s no secret that in 2021 the modest growth of the...

Ultimate Australia Travel List

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Lonely Planet's Ultimate Australia Travel List has been revealed. Win one of 10 copies! For the first time, the team at Lonely Planet and its panel of industry experts have...

Change for White Goat Press

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Publisher: White Goat Press ISBN prefix: 97817343872; 97809893731; 97989852069 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 May 2022 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk

Blue Hour (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sarah Schmidt’s second novel, following her award-winning debut See What I Have Done, is an intensely absorbing emotional journey through motherhood and trauma set against the turbulent 20th century. In...

Tedeschi wins 2022 Calibre Essay Prize

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sydney-based classical musician Simon Tedeschi has won the 2022 Calibre Essay Prize for his essay ‘This Woman My Grandmother’. Tedeschi, whose debut Fugitive, will be published by Upswell this month,...

Edgar Awards 2022 winners announced

Monday, 2 May 2022
Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published or produced in 2021....

Araluen wins Stella Prize for ‘Dropbear’

Friday, 29 April 2022
Evelyn Araluen has won the 2022 Stella Prize for Dropbear (UQP), the first time a poetry collection has won the award. In the prize's 10th year, Araluen receives an additional...

Career path: Erica Wagner

Thursday, 28 April 2022
Erica Wagner has worked in publishing for over 30 years, starting out as a trainee children's editor at Penguin Australia and going on to spend 20 years at the helm...

Macquarie University launches author survey

Thursday, 28 April 2022
Macquarie University has launched a national survey investigating the practices of Australian authors in the contemporary national and international book industry. The survey, which follows on from a similar study...

 

 

 

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