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Call for entries for maritime history prizes

Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Nominations are invited for two biennial maritime history prizes—the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize of $6000 and the Australian Community Maritime History Prize of $2000. Nominations close on...

Bayfield joins S&S

Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Jack Bayfield has joined Simon & Schuster as field sales account manager NSW, replacing Kay Drury in the position of national field sales manager. Bayfield began the position on 29...

HarperCollins congratulates CBCA-shortlisted creators

Wednesday, 31 March 2021
With the announcement of the 2021 CBCA Book of the Year shortlists, the team at HarperCollins Children’s Books is delighted to see Freya Blackwood’s The Unwilling Twin (ISBN 9781460757536, $24.99,...

CBCA 2021 Book of the Year shortlists announced

Tuesday, 30 March 2021
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its 2021 Book of the Year shortlists. The shortlisted books in each category are: Older readers The End of the World...

FWF announces closure

Tuesday, 30 March 2021
The biennial Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) has announced its closure due to lack of funding. The inaugural FWF was held during Melbourne Writers Festival in 2016 and in 2018 the...

National Book Critics Circle Awards winners announced

Monday, 29 March 2021
In the US, the winners of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been announced. The winners include: Fiction Hamnet (Maggie O’Farrell, Tinder Press) Nonfiction Island on Fire: The...

SPN announces 2021 conference dates

Monday, 29 March 2021
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the dates for the 2021 Independent Publishing Conference, which is scheduled to run from 25–27 November. The conference will take place in-person at...

StoryFest 2021 guests announced

Friday, 26 March 2021
The guests for the second StoryFest festival, which will run from 18 to 20 June in Milton, Mollymook and Ulladulla on the NSW South Coast, have been announced. Guests include...

Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced

Friday, 26 March 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$155,200), has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The shortlisted titles are: Girl, Woman, Other (Bernardine Evaristo, Hamish Hamilton) Lost Children...

Gardiner’s ‘Goddess’ optioned for screen

Thursday, 25 March 2021
Kelly Gardiner’s 2014 historical novel Goddess (HarperCollins) has been optioned for the screen by Deux Dames Entertainment and Black Magic, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Deux Dames Entertainment was founded...

Ultimo acquires latest Chandran novel

Thursday, 25 March 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Shankari Chandran's third novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. Chandran's novel is set in a nursing home...

Stella Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Thursday, 25 March 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The six shortlisted books are: Fathoms: The world in the whale (Rebecca Giggs, Scribe) Revenge: Murder in Three Parts (S...

Machado wins 2021 Folio Prize

Thursday, 25 March 2021
In the UK, American writer Carmen Maria Machado has won the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize, worth £30,000 (A$54,100), for In the Dream House (Serpent’s Tail), an examination of her experience...

BWF program announced, Readings staff request EBA

Wednesday, 24 March 2021
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival, running from 7–9 May, has been announced. Meanwhile, Red Room Poetry is planning a series of daily events for the first ever...

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 24 March 2021
The shortlists for the 2020 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) A Room Made of Leaves  (Kate...

Bertelsmann’s S&S merger faces scrutiny in US, UK

Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) parent company Bertelsmann’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster (S&S) is facing scrutiny from government agencies in both the US and the UK, reports the Bookseller. In...

Change for American Pharmacists Association

Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Publisher: American Pharmacists Association ISBN prefix: 978158212; 9780917330; 9780914768 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 April 2021 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk

Change for Kendall Hunt Publishing Company

Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company ISBN prefix: 97808403; 97807872; 97807575; 9781 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 April 2021 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk

Change for SAP PRESS

Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Publisher: SAP PRESS ISBN prefix: 97814932 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 April 2021 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk

Anita Heiss on ‘Bila Yarrudangga-langdhuray’

Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Anita Heiss's new historical novel Bila Yarrudanggalangdhuray (S&S, May), the first Australian commercial fiction release to feature the title on the cover solely in an Aboriginal language, follows protagonist Wagadhaany,...

Windham-Campbell Prize recipients announced

Tuesday, 23 March 2021
In the US, the recipients of the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prizes, worth US$165,000 (A$213,000) each, have been announced. This year’s recipients are US playwrights Michael R Jackson and Nathan Alan Davis...

Inaugural Poetry Month set for August

Monday, 22 March 2021
Red Room Poetry will present the inaugural Poetry Month in August this year. The program will include daily poetic commissions by high-profile poets, a poetry-meets-songwriting competition, an international First Nations...

Push for EBA at Readings

Monday, 22 March 2021
The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, representing staff at the Readings bookselling chain in Melbourne requesting an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA), has approached the company to open negotiations for...

 

 

 

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