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Red Reflection

Wednesday, 27 October 2021
How quickly we changed the world. This thought-provoking environmental fiction will stay with you long after you have put it down. Shocking, imaginative and achingly perceptive. Red Reflection by Phil McNamara...

Moriarty, de Kretser, Allende among first AWW guests

Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Adelaide Writers' Week (AWW), which runs as part of Adelaide Festival, has announced the first guests for its 2022 festival, to take place 5–10 March at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial...

Bonnier UK to launch ‘disruptive’ new publisher

Wednesday, 27 October 2021
In the UK, Bonnier Books is launching a new ‘independently run, disruptive publisher of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction’, Footnote Press, in partnership with founders Vidisha Biswas and Sujoy Roy,...

Record-breaking week for book sales, PMLAs shortlists

Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Australian book sales for the week ending 16 October broke the 10-year average BookScan weekly sales record for this time of year, as New South Wales booksellers were finally able...

WBN published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 27 October 2021
The Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) will be published on Thursday, 4 November, next week due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday on Tuesday, 2 November The deadline for classifieds and...

Change for Parachute Press

Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Publisher: Parachute Press Old distributor: Brumby Sunstate New distributor: Books at Manic Changeover date: 25 October 2021 Contact URL: manicex@manic.com.au

Join the livestream announcement for the winner of the 2021 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers

Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival invite you to join the Facebook livestream on Thursday, 4 November to announce the winner of the 2021 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers....

Josh Pyke & Ronojoy Ghosh on ‘Family Tree’

Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Singer–songwriter and children's book author Josh Pyke celebrates Australia's diverse and multicultural society in his latest picture book Family Tree (Scholastic, January) with illustrations by Ronojoy Ghosh. Reviewer Romi Sharp said...

Frankfurt reports 73,500 in-person attendees

Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Frankfurt Book Fair has reported that 36,000 trade visitors from 105 countries, and 37,500 public visitors, attended this year’s event, which ran from 20–24 October, reports Publishing Perspectives. Visitors came...

Writers Vic announces 2021 Writeability fellows

Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Writers Victoria has announced the 2021 Writeability fellows. The following five writers with disability were awarded Writeability fellowships: Beau Windon for 'A Proud Failure', a hybrid memoir exploring neurodiversity through...

SPN Book of the Year Award shortlist announced

Tuesday, 26 October 2021
The shortlist for the Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year Award has been announced. Formerly the Most Underrated Book Award, the prize was first presented under its new...

Australians nominated for 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Monday, 25 October 2021
Six Australian authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. The Australian candidates are: Jeannie...

Serong, Nannestad win $100k Historical Novel Prize

Monday, 25 October 2021
Victorian writer Jock Serong has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize in the adult category for The Burning Island (Text), while Katrina Nannestad has won the $30,000 children and...

Authors boycott Frankfurt over right-wing publisher

Friday, 22 October 2021
A handful of authors have cancelled their appearances at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair to protest the presence of German New Right publisher Jungeuropa, reports the Bookseller. Jungeuropa is run...

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced

Friday, 22 October 2021
The shortlists for the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction A Treacherous Country (K M Kruimink, A&U) In the Time...

US$75k Cundill History Prize finalists announced

Thursday, 21 October 2021
The three finalists for the 2021 Cundill History Prize, which rewards ‘the best history writing in English’, have been announced. The finalists are: Survivors: Children’s lives after the Holocaust (Rebecca Clifford,...

Aotearoa NZ industry shocked by NZ$500k grant for book recommendation site

Thursday, 21 October 2021
The Aotearoa New Zealand literary industry is frustrated and ‘astonished’ by a NZ$500,000 (A$479,000) grant given to an organisation to improve access to books, reports Stuff.co.nz. The grant was made...

SPN 2021 program announced

Thursday, 21 October 2021
The program for the 2021 Small Press Network (SPN) annual Independent Publishing Conference has been announced. The 10th annual SPN conference will be held online from 25–27 November, with a...

Laguna wins Colin Roderick Literary Award, new paid internship recipients

Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Sofie Laguna has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award and the H T Priestley Medal for her novel Infinite Splendours (A&U), while the Australia Council released the long-awaited results of...

Melbourne City of Lit meets Norwich’s The Book Hive

Wednesday, 20 October 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. Today we...

Strubel wins 2021 German Book Prize

Wednesday, 20 October 2021
In Germany, Antje Rávik Strubel has won the 2021 German Book Prize for her novel Blaue Frau (S Fischer). Blaue Frau, which translates as Blue Woman in English, was chosen...

Shankari Chandran on ‘Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens’

Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Shankari Chandran's third novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo, January) centres on the Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home and the community fostered by the Tamil family who run it. Set...

Change for International Society of Arboriculture

Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Publisher: International Society of Arboriculture ISBN prefix: 9781881956; 9781943378; New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 October 2021 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk

Change for Trivent Publishing

Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Publisher: Trivent Publishing ISBN prefix: 97861581689; 97861581222; 97861580996 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 October 2021 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk

Arts NT Varuna Fellowships announced

Tuesday, 19 October 2021
The recipients of the 2021 Arts NT Varuna Residency Fellowships have been announced. Presented in partnership with the Northern Territory government, the fellowship gives six writers from the Top End...

Winner of €1m Spanish prize revealed to be three men

Tuesday, 19 October 2021
In Spain, the winner of the €1 million (A$1.57m) Planeta Prize, Carmen Mola, has been revealed as a pseudonym for three men, reports the Bookseller. Carmen Mola won the prize...

Writing NSW announces recipients of new paid publishing internships

Monday, 18 October 2021
Writing NSW has announced the successful candidates for its new internship for emerging editors from culturally diverse backgrounds. The paid internship program is presented in partnership with publishers Giramondo, Hachette,...

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