Victorian literary orgs to receive Creative Vic funding
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Creative Victoria has announced the 78 arts and cultural organisations that will share in $7.85 million in grants in stage two of its Strategic Investment Fund. The funding is ‘focused...
Inaugural $50k Historical Novel Prize longlist announced
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlist for the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. The HNSA has also confirmed sponsor ARA has doubled its funding for the...
ALIA welcomes library budget announcement
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has welcomed the ‘positive outcomes’ for library and information workers announced in the Federal government’s 2020-21 budget. The federal government announced $31.2 million...
QPF receives funding for digital adaptation
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
The Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) is among 52 arts projects to receive funding under the Queensland Government’s Digital Adaptation stream of its Arts and Cultural Recovery Package. QPF receives $9,651...
Richell Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the shortlist for the 2020 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: ‘The Boy Who...
Reminder: Love Your Bookshop Day this Saturday
Friday, 2 October 2020
The Australian Booksellers Association's (ABA) annual Love Your Bookshop Day will take place this Saturday, 3 October. As well as an opportunity for Australian booksellers to thank their customers for...
Serpell wins 2020 Arthur C Clarke Award for ‘The Old Drift’
Friday, 2 October 2020
Zambian author Namwali Serpell has won the 2020 Arthur C Clarke award for science-fiction for her debut novel The Old Drift (Vintage), reports the Guardian. The Old Drift, described as ‘a...
Fenster wins 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize
Friday, 2 October 2020
Gigi Fenster has won the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel for ‘A Good Winter’. Chosen from a shortlist of three, the winning manuscript was announced during an...
Barbara Jefferis Award 2020 shortlist announced
Friday, 2 October 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the $50,000 Barbara Jefferis Award. The shortlisted novels are: The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP) Too Much Lip (Melissa...
Proportion of UK YA writers of colour doubles since 2017
Thursday, 1 October 2020
In the UK, a study has found the proportion of authors of colour writing YA in the UK has more than doubled since 2017, reports the Guardian. According to research...
Big Issue announces 2020 fiction edition line-up
Thursday, 1 October 2020
The Big Issue has announced the authors that will appear in its 16th annual fiction edition. The 2020 edition features 14 stories from Australian writers, including new commissioned work from...
Me, Microbes & I
Thursday, 1 October 2020
A guide to the viruses, bacteria and other weeny weirdies that share your world. Find out what they look like, how they grow and what they do—and learn how to...
Meet UQP rights and contracts manager Kate McCormack
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Kate McCormack has been the rights and contracts manager for Brisbane-based independent UQP for the past four years, joining the publisher after 10 years at Penguin Random House Australia and...
Australian children’s, YA titles headed for screen
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
After a decade in print, Sally Rippin’s bestselling Billie B Brown junior fiction series (Hardie Grant Egmont) is finally heading to the screen. Global production company Fremantle and development partner...
‘The Dressmaker’ sequel among recent Oz acquisitions
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Australian publishers have been busy acquiring new titles over the past six months, including a kids’ guide to journalism, a ‘vital, groundbreaking book’ about gender transition, and a highly anticipated...
Gearing up for a virtual Frankfurt
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Earlier this year, Australian publishers, booksellers and industry leaders predicted that 2020 would see a growing demand for uplit and practical titles on climate change, as well as health and...
Award-winners among recent rights sales successes
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic putting a halt to international travel, a majority of Australian rights managers and literary agents have reported a stable rights market over the past year, with...
Three Oz titles scoop major awards
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Three Australian books have collected several prestigious awards and shortlistings over the past six months: Tara June Winch’s novel The Yield (Hamish Hamilton), ‘a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling...
Publishing and the pandemic: The Australian book market in 2020
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Despite the disruption that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the Australian book industry this year, overall sales figures are looking surprisingly healthy. For the first eight months of 2020,...
Dalton, Pape, Bluey top Australian bestsellers YTD
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Trent Dalton’s 2018 debut novel Boy Swallows Universe has topped the Nielsen BookScan’s Australian fiction chart for the year to date, having sold more than 80,000 copies in 2020. Literary,...
Lead titles from Australian publishers & agents
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
With the Frankfurt Book Fair now purely online, Australian publishers and literary agents are gearing up to pitch their titles via the fair’s—and their own—digital channels. Here are some of...
The Booker moves its winner’s announcement—to accommodate a book release
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
'We thought it unfortunate that two of the most exciting literary events of the year—the announcement of the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize and the publication of Barack Obama’s...
Griffin joins IPEd
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Peter Griffin has been appointed membership director on the board of the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd). Griffin is general manager of the Real Estate Institute of NSW and a...
Beyer joins ABA
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Claire Beyer has joined the Australian Booksellers Association, replacing Anne Johnston in the role of administration and social media.
Cullity joins Scribble
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Tess Cullity has joined Scribble as an editor. Cullity, previously an editor at Hardie Grant Egmont, began in the role on 10 September.
Vale Ross Burgess
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Ross Burgess, owner of Mary Ryan's Noosa, has died after an illness. Burgess and his wife Susan took over the franchise in 2010, which had been in operation since 2000....
QBD, Dymocks petition Vic premier to reopen Melbourne stores; Hachette to boost ADS capacity
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Bookselling chains QBD and Dymocks have each written to Victorian premier Daniel Andrews asking that bookstores be allowed to open in Melbourne, which has been under stage four lockdown since...
UK, North American bodies form green book supply chain alliance
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
The UK’s Book Industry Communication (BIC) has formed an international green book supply chain alliance with Canada’s BookNet and US body the Book Industry Study Group, reports the Bookseller. Under...
Change for Trans Pacific Press
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press ISBN prefix: 9781920901; 9781925608; 978164966 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 October 2020 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
Change for NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Publisher: NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English ISBN prefix: 97808141 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 September 2020 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
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