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Career path: Cate Blake

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Cate Blake began her publishing career at Penguin Random House Australia as an editorial assistant. In 2018 she was nominated for the inaugural ABIA Rising Star Award for her role...

New Readings shop, McKay wins Arthur C Clarke Award

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Melbourne bookseller Readings will open a new shop—the chain’s eighth—in the Emporium shopping complex in the Melbourne CBD. In other retail news, performing arts specialist Book Nook has been saved...

Crime novel ‘The Whispering’ wins 2021 Banjo Prize

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
HarperCollins Australia has announced Veronica Lando as the winner of the 2021 Banjo Prize for her ‘hauntingly atmospheric mystery’ manuscript The Whispering. Lando’s crime novel was selected from a shortlist...

Voss Literary Prize 2021 longlist announced

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
The longlist for the 2021 Voss Literary Prize, awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the previous year, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Rain Heron...

Jennings wins British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Kathleen Jennings has won the Best Newcomer category in the 2021 British Fantasy Awards for her Australian gothic novel Flyaway (Picador). Jennings’ debut novel, chosen out of a shortlist of...

Danged Black Thing

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa,...

Text acquires Nick Cave book

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Faith, Hope and Carnage is an intimate and honest conversation about big ideas including faith, art, music and grief. Co-written by Nick Cave and Observer journalist Sean O’Hagan, this new...

OUP launches new branding for digital transformation

Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Oxford University Press (OUP) has launched new branding to support its ongoing digital transformation. Under the new branding, the publisher will continue producing materials in its three core markets of...

MidnightSun announces book cover design competition

Tuesday, 28 September 2021
MidnightSun Publishing has announced a new book cover design competition for two of its forthcoming novels, Random Acts of Unkindness by Anna Mandoki and The Rider on the Bridge by...

McKay wins Arthur C Clarke Award

Tuesday, 28 September 2021
The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe) has won the UK's Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction. McKay’s debut novel was selected from a shortlist of...

US$75k Cundill History Prize shortlist announced

Tuesday, 28 September 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Cundill History Prize, which rewards ‘the best history writing in English’, has been announced. The shortlisted books are: The Loss of Hindustan: The invention of...

Nib Literary Award 2021 shortlist announced

Monday, 27 September 2021
The shortlist for the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Only Happiness Here: In search of Elizabeth...

Performing arts bookshop relaunches online

Monday, 27 September 2021
Stage Whispers magazine has purchased performing arts specialist bookshop Book Nook, saving the business from closure and launching it as a new online store. Founded over 35 years ago, Book...

Shah Idil awarded $10k Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship

Monday, 27 September 2021
Aisyah Shah Idil is the inaugural winner of the Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship for Writers. Awarded by Perth’s Centre for Stories, the fellowship is for mid-career writers ‘in recognition of their...

No Daily tomorrow

Thursday, 23 September 2021
Due to the public holiday in Victoria, there will be no Daily newsletter tomorrow, Friday, 24 September. Books+Publishing's weekly round-up of books mentioned in forthcoming media will be available via...

Stivens wins 2022 Ray Koppe Fellowship

Thursday, 23 September 2021
Sarah Stivens has won the Australian Society of Authors' (ASA) 2022 Ray Koppe Young Writers Fellowship for her poetry manuscript ‘Therapeutic Discomfort’. ‘Therapeutic Discomfort’ is a work of 10 poems...

APA Indies Roadshow adds children’s/YA presentation

Thursday, 23 September 2021
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) will run its Indies Roadshow online again this year, on Wednesday, 29 September at 4.30pm AEST, following the inaugural virtual event held in response to...

$100k Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced

Wednesday, 22 September 2021
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The novels shortlisted in the adult category are: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, River of Dreams (Anita Heiss,...

Love Your Bookshop Day, Varuna Residential Fellowships

Wednesday, 22 September 2021
The Australian Booksellers Association has announced details about this year’s Love Your Bookshop Day celebrations on 9 October, which will take place online ‘so that everyone can engage from wherever...

Change for Smith Street Books

Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Publisher: Smith Street Books Old distributor: Simon & Schuster (HEDS) New distributor: Thames & Hudson (ADS) Changeover date: 31 January 2022 Returns cut-off: 28 February 2022 Contact URL: adscs@alliancedist.com.au

Freya Blackwood on ‘The Boy and the Elephant’

Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Freya Blackwood is a Greenaway Medallist and seven-time CBCA winner whose picture books are beloved for her warm and perceptive drawings. Her latest book, The Boy and the Elephant (HarperCollins, November) is a tender, wordless picture book...

Rival French publishing company ups stake in Lagardère

Friday, 17 September 2021
In France, media company Vivendi has upped its stake in Hachette Livre parent company Lagardère to over 45% ownership, reports the Financial Times. Vivendi, which owns French publisher Editis, has...

 

 

 

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