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Framed

Friday, 1 April 2022
In this gripping art heist thriller, art conservator JJ Jego spots a long-lost masterpiece through the window of a luxury apartment – what she believes is a priceless Van Gogh...

Canberra Writers Festival 2022 dates announced

Friday, 1 April 2022
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) has announced that the 2022 festival will be staged from 10–14 August, ‘with a welcome return to a full program of live events’. CWF was cancelled...

Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 April

Friday, 1 April 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper A History of Dreams (Jane Rawson, Brio) The Fish (Lloyd Jones,...

Stella Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Thursday, 31 March 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The six shortlisted books are: TAKE CARE (Eunice Andrada, Giramondo) Dropbear (Evelyn Araluen, UQP) No Document (Anwen Crawford, Giramondo)...

Last chance: Australian Publishing Industry Workforce Survey on Diversity and Inclusion

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
The University of Melbourne and the Australian Publishers Association are running the 2022 Australian Publishing Industry Workforce Survey on Diversity and Inclusion. The survey will close this Friday, 1 April....

Windham-Campbell Prizes 2022 recipients announced

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
In the US, the recipients of the 2022 Windham-Campbell Prizes, worth US$165,000 (A$219,000) each, have been announced. This year’s recipients are US playwright Sharon Bridgforth and British playwright Winsome Pinnock...

CBCA 2022 Book of the Year shortlists announced

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its 2022 Book of the Year shortlists. The shortlisted books in each category are: Older readers The Boy from the Mish (Gary...

HarperCollins congratulates CBCA-shortlisted creators

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
With the announcement of the 2022 CBCA Book of the Year shortlists, the team at HarperCollins Children’s Books is delighted to see Freya Blackwood’s The Boy and the Elephant (ISBN...

Walker Books Australia congratulates CBCA-shortlisted authors and illustrators

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Walker Books would like to congratulate our CBCA-shortlisted authors and illustrators for 2022. Congratulations to Leila Rudge for her shortlisting of Winston and the Indoor Cat in the Early Childhood...

Changes at Hardie Grant

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Hardie Grant announces a significant new appointment as a critical step towards continuing to evolve its culture and business. From April, Troy Lewis will move from his current role as...

Morison awarded 2022 Boundless Mentorship

Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Gamilaroi writer Judi Morison has won the 2022 Boundless Indigenous Writer's Mentorship for her family saga ‘When Grandmothers Speak’. Set in Queensland and northern New South Wales in the 1950s,...

Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 29 March 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses has been announced. The books shortlisted for this year's prize are: Dark Neighbourhood (Vanessa Onwuemezi,...

Tallinn bookshop wins LBF Bookstore of the Year 2022

Monday, 28 March 2022
The London Book Fair (LBF) has announced the winners of its annual International Excellence Awards. The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced earlier this month, are: Bookstore of...

New Westwords/Ultimo Prize announced

Monday, 28 March 2022
WestWords and Ultimo Press have partnered to offer a new prize for emerging writers with ‘a connection to Western Sydney’. Free to enter, the Westwords/Ultimo Prize offers the winner $5000...

BookUp 2022 keynotes announced

Monday, 28 March 2022
The Australian Publisher’s Association (APA) has announced the first guests for its second BookUp conference, which will take place at the ICC Sydney on Thursday, 9 June. The APA said...

Carnegie, Greenaway Medals 2022 shortlists announced

Friday, 25 March 2022
In the UK, the shortlists for this year’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, celebrating outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration respectively, have been announced. The works shortlisted for the...

SWF 2022 program announced

Friday, 25 March 2022
The program for the 2022 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs Monday 16 – Sunday 22 May, has been announced. Themed ‘Change My Mind’, the 25th SWF features 234 events...

Collins awarded 2021 Leila St John Award

Friday, 25 March 2022
Ford Street Publishing founder Paul Collins has received the annual Leila St John Award, presented by the Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA). Collins is commended...

Tóibín wins 2022 Folio Prize

Thursday, 24 March 2022
Irish novelist Colm Tóibín has won the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize, worth £30,000 (A$52,850), for his novel The Magician (Picador). Tóibín's 10th novel traces the life of author, essayist, philanthropist and...

#LoveOzYA becomes registered charity

Thursday, 24 March 2022
The Australian Young Adult Literature Alliance, a grassroots organisation established in 2015 to promote Australian youth literature and more popularly known by the hashtag #LoveOzYA, has become a registered charity...

Inoon wins 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize

Thursday, 24 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HQ, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, have announced Ayesha Inoon as the winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished...

ABIA 2022 longlists announced

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles longlisted in each category are: General fiction book of the year After Story (Larissa Behrendt,...

Lindström wins 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Swedish artist Eva Lindström has won the five million krona (A$708,785) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. Lindström, whose work has won multiple awards,...

Beatnik named Bologna publisher of the year, Oceania

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand publisher Beatnik Publishing is the winner of the Oceania category of the 2022 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year. The Bologna Children’s Book...

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