Beatles bio wins £50k Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction
Thursday, 26 November 2020
English writer and critic Craig Brown has won the £50,000 ($90,900) Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction for One Two Three Four: The Beatles in time (Fourth Estate). Brown's biography tells the...
PRH NZ announces scholarship for Māori and Pasifika students
Thursday, 26 November 2020
Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRH NZ) has announced a new publishing scholarship for Māori and Pasifika students. The Penguin Random House Māori and Pasifika Publishing Scholarship aims to reduce barriers...
Dovey wins 2020 Bragg Prize for Science Writing
Thursday, 26 November 2020
Ceridwen Dovey has won the 2020 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for ‘True Grit’, first published in Wired. Dovey receives $7000. Her winning article explores the unexpected problems...
We need better arguments for the importance of writing
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
'Being a writer in Australia is seen as an esoteric thing at best, certainly not a profession, a hobby maybe, and this is the first time I’ll say it and...
Christmas closing list 2020
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Company Last day of business in 2020 First day of business in 2021 About3 (trading as CoInfo) Wednesday, 23 December (closing midday) Thursday, 14 January Alliance Distribution Services Closed only...
Pete Cromer: Australia
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Discover Australia’s unique animals through Pete Cromer’s jaw-droppingly bold and beautiful animal portraits. This gallery-in-a-book features 18 of his best-loved Australian bird and mammal collages. For the first time ever,...
I, Custodian: Fire
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
In a world of political unrest, subversive mobs and subterranean custodians play their hands. The shadow grows, and Moriah-Dahlia’s fervent quest for the truth unveils more then she had anticipated....
The Small Press Network—2020 Independent Publishing Conference online
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
The Small Press Network will hold the 2020 Independent Publishing Conference online, on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November. With two days of programming, it will cover a variety of...
Change for Michigan State University Press
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Publisher: Michigan State University Press ISBN prefix: 978161186-; 978087013; 9780937191 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 October 2020 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
A window on the world: Stephanie Smee’s career journey
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Stephanie Smee is a Sydney-based French translator who worked as a lawyer before pivoting to literary translation. She has recently translated books including Hannelore Cayre's Dagger Award–winning crime novel The...
ASA writers survey, first Perth Fest guests, Booker Prize winner
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
A new survey by the Australian Society of Authors shows more than half of full-time writers earn below $15,000 per year. The first guests for next year’s Perth Festival Literature...
Hardie Grant Children’s launches new illustrated imprint
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing (HGCP) has announced the creation of Bright Light, a new illustrated imprint that will publish 20 titles a year exploring privilege, race, equality, the environment, bodies...
PA to aggregate diversity statistics
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
In the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) will aggregate publisher statistics on the diversity make-up of their books, reports the Bookseller. After a number of big publishers confirmed they were...
Hueston awarded 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Text Publishing director and a senior editor Penny Hueston is the winner of the 2020 Australian Academy of the Humanities Medal for Excellence in Translation for Being Here: The life...
Simsion, Baxter novel adaptations receive Screen Aus funding
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
A film adaptation of Graeme Simsion's novel The Best of Adam Sharp (Text) and a series based on Ella Baxter's forthcoming debut New Animal (A&U, March) are among 42 projects sharing...
Silvey, Gillard, Bennett among first guests announced for 2021 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas program
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Perth Festival has announced the first guests scheduled to appear as part of its 2021 Literature & Ideas program, which will be spread across 12 days from 5–28 February 2021....
ASA: More than half of full-time writers earn below $15k per year
Monday, 23 November 2020
A survey of writers by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has found that author earnings are ‘disastrously low’. The survey found that 53.6% of respondents who said they were...
Morris-Marr’s ‘Fallen’ wins 2020 Walkley Book Award
Monday, 23 November 2020
Investigative journalist, writer and broadcaster Lucie Morris-Marr has won the 2020 Walkley Book Award for Fallen: The inside story of the secret trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell (A&U)....
National Book Award winners announced
Monday, 23 November 2020
In the US, the winners of this year’s National Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu, Europa Editions) Nonfiction The...
Pan Mac, Nosy Crow among FutureBook Awards winners
Monday, 23 November 2020
In the UK, the winners of the FutureBook Awards: Best of Lockdown have been announced, reports the Bookseller. The winners include publishers Nosy Crow and Pan Macmillan, Bath-based bookshop Mr...
Melbourne City of Literature Office supports #vicbookshopbingo competition
Friday, 20 November 2020
The office of the Melbourne City of Literature is encouraging Victorians to support local booksellers as part of a Bookshop Bingo initiative conceived by writer Imbi Neeme. Participants download a...
Speech Pathology Book of the Year 2020 winners announced
Friday, 20 November 2020
The winners of the 2020 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in July, the winning titles are: Birth to three years...
Stuart wins Booker Prize for ‘Shuggie Bain’
Friday, 20 November 2020
Scottish author Douglas Stuart has won the £50,000 (A$91,100) Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain (Picador), reports the Bookseller. Stuart’s novel, based on his own childhood, tells the...
‘The Sydney Wars’ wins inaugural Les Carlyon Literary Prize
Friday, 20 November 2020
Stephen Gapps has won the inaugural Les Carlyon Literary Prize for his 2018 work The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony 1788–1817 (NewSouth). Chosen from more than 60 entries,...
Voss Literary Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Thursday, 19 November 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: Crossings (Alex Landragin, Picador) The Rich Man’s House (Andrew McGahan, A&U) The Palace of Angels...
Pearson creates direct-to-consumer division
Thursday, 19 November 2020
Pearson has announced the creation of a new direct-to-consumer division, focused on direct-to-consumer products and channels. 'With the accelerating interest in digital learning across the globe, we need to meet...
Treloar wins 2020 Barbara Jefferis Award
Thursday, 19 November 2020
Lucy Treloar has won the 2020 Barbara Jefferis Award for her novel Wolfe Island (Picador). The $50,000 award, which is administered by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), is presented...
Bobbermein joins Murdoch Books
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Dymocks PR manager Sue Bobbermein has left the company to take up the role of head of communications and marketing at Murdoch Books as a maternity leave contract. Bobbermein begins...
Wilson joins Bookgrove
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Kirsty Wilson has joined Ocean Grove's Bookgrove as a bookseller. Wilson previously worked at Text Publishing for 14 years and at Berbay Publishing earlier this year. Publishers can add her...
Editing requires time and skill—regardless of market pressures
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
'Despite the high volume of books being produced, and the increasing pressures to produce them as quickly and cheaply as possible—and of course to sell as many as possible—editing itself...
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