International Booker 2022 longlist announced Archive
Friday, 11 March 2022
The longlist for the 2022 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90k), has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Cursed Bunny (Bora Chung, trans by Anton Hur, Honford Star) After The Sun...
Penguin Literary Prize 2022 shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 11 March 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'On a Bright Hillside in Paradise' by Annette Higgs, about a...
ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 11 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins publishing division HQ have announced the shortlist for the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The winner will receive...
Posavec, Quick win Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize Archive
Thursday, 10 March 2022
In the UK, Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick have won the £10,000 (A$18,000) Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for I Am a Book. I Am a Portal to the...
Warburton appointed ALIA CEO Archive
Thursday, 10 March 2022
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced the appointment of Cathie Warburton as its new CEO, replacing Sue McKerracher who left the organisation in January. Warburton has experience...
Vale Jordie Albiston Archive
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Melbourne-based poet Jordie Albiston has died, aged 60. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, Albiston studied music at the Victorian College of the Arts and received a Doctorate in English...
Publishing industry Workforce Survey on Diversity and Inclusion launches today Archive
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian publishing industry Workforce Survey on Diversity and Inclusion launches today. Answers will be anonymous, accessible only to the University of Melbourne researchers. Participants will be asked a number...
Chidgey, Mason longlisted for 2022 Women’s Prize Archive
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand writers Catherine Chidgey and Meg Mason have been longlisted for the £30,000 (A$54,000) Women’s Prize for Fiction. Chidgey, the author of six novels, is longlisted for Remote Sympathy,...
Wang appointed Australian Children’s Laureate 2022–23 Archive
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) has named Gabrielle Wang as the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2022–23. Melbourne-based Wang is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 20 books, including...
Vale Shane Warne Archive
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Australian cricketer Shane Warne has died, aged 52. Warne was the author of the memoir No Spin (with Mark Nicholas), published by Penguin Random House (PRH) simultaneously in the UK and...
Australian Playwrights’ Festival Archive
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
An initiative from Currency Press to mark 50 years as a performing arts publisher, the festival is a public event to celebrate the contribution of our playwrights to the national...
Voss Literary Prize 2022 Archive
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian University Heads of English and the estate of Vivian Robert de Vaux Voss are pleased to call for nominations to the ninth annual Voss Literary Prize. The prize,...
Sales and distribution Archive
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The National Library of Australia have opened a tender for the sales and distribution contract for NLA Publishing. The tender will close on 1 April, 2022 at 2:00pm. More information...
Workshop: Using PDF mark-up effectively Archive
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Learn to master on-screen PDF mark-up, using the comment tools in Adobe Acrobat. Trainer: Kevin O’Brien Series 1: 1–3:30pm, 19 March, and 7–8pm, 22 March https://iped.memnet.com.au/MemberSelfService/EventBooking.aspx?selectedEventId=650 or Series 2 (repeat):...
George Haddad on ‘Losing Face’ Archive
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
George Haddad's Losing Face (May, UQP) follows the lives of an intergenerational Lebanese-Australian family living in Western Sydney. Told primarily from the perspective of young protagonist Joey, Haddad's narrative reveals the complexities...
NZ National Reading Survey: number of readers dips slightly Archive
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura has published the results from its 2021 National Reading Survey, which found the number of adults who read has dropped slightly since the poll was...
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
The winners of the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature have been announced. Presented biennially by the South Australian government, the awards offer a total prize pool of $167,500. The...
Ahmed awarded 2022 Kat Muscat Fellowship Archive
Monday, 7 March 2022
Munira Tabassum Ahmed is the recipient of the 2022 Kat Muscat Fellowship, which offers professional development up to the value of $5000 for an editorial project or work of writing...
‘Solid’ year for B&N: Daunt Archive
Monday, 7 March 2022
In the US, Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt has told Publishers Weekly that 2021 was ‘another year of solid growth’ for the chain, with sales for the first eight...
Amazon to close all physical bookstores Archive
Friday, 4 March 2022
In the US, Amazon is closing all 24 of its physical bookshops after opening the first in November 2015, reports Publishers Weekly. First launching in Seattle, the chain spread to...
Stella Count 2019/20: gender parity achieved for first time Archive
Thursday, 3 March 2022
The results of the 2019 and 2020 Stella Counts (delayed due to Covid) have been announced, showing that representation of women and non-binary authors in Australian book reviews has reached...
BWF 2022 program announced Archive
Thursday, 3 March 2022
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs 3–8 May, has been announced. Over 100 artists will appear at more than 200 events for the 60th celebration...
Libel claim against HarperCollins UK dismissed Archive
Thursday, 3 March 2022
In the UK, the High Court has dismissed a libel claim brought against HarperCollins and author Tom Burgis over the 2020 book Kleptopia: How dirty money is conquering the world...
Varuna 2022 First Nations Fellowships announced Archive
Thursday, 3 March 2022
Varuna, the National Writers' House has announced the recipients of its First Nations Fellowships for 2022. The six fellowship recipients and their projects are: Jenny Fraser, for her narrative nonfiction...
Duncan wins Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2022 Archive
Thursday, 3 March 2022
Naomi Parry Duncan has been awarded Writers Victoria's $20,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of Gai-mariagal man Musquito. Originally from Port Jackson, Musquito was a resistance fighter...
US publishers to attend LBF in ‘limited’ capacity; Russia banned from fairs Archive
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Large US publishers including Hachette Book Group and HarperCollins US will only attend this year’s London Book Fair, which runs 5–7 April, in a ‘limited fashion’, reports the Bookseller. This...
The Bookseller at the End of the World Archive
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
'An extraordinary story… illegal gambling, pirates and numerous personal tragedies, all punctuated by warm stories from her bookshops and an ultimately resolved love story. It makes my life look pretty...
The Bush Koala Archive
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
During Australia's bushfires, Joey Koala is separated from his mother and must search for her with the help of the other forest animals. The Bush Koala by Lucinda Carter Publisher:...
Vale Michael Cannon Archive
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Journalist and author Michael Cannon has died, aged 92. Cannon's daughter Sarah writes: Asked about the unusual badge in his lapel, Michael Cannon used to joke that it was presented...
Jennifer Pinkerton on ‘Heartland’ Archive
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Jennifer Pinkerton's Heartland (A&U, May) is a wide-ranging survey of modern dating and relationships that addresses topics from love in lockdown and dating app usage to polyamory and pornography consumption. Reviewer...
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