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Nib Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 1 September 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Mark and Evette Moran Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: After the Count: The death of Davey Browne...

SCBWI announces new awards for Australian illustrators

Monday, 31 August 2020
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced three new awards for Australian illustrators, with support from the Copyright Agency. The SCBWI Australian Picture Book Illustrator Awards...

First phase of online-only Beijing Book Fair begins

Friday, 28 August 2020
The first phase of this year’s Beijing International Book Fair—which is taking place entirely online due to the Covid-19 pandemic—has begun this week, with the launch of the fair’s Smart...

MWF Digital: a ‘balm’ for challenging times

Friday, 28 August 2020
The digital edition of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which ran from 7–16 August during Melbourne's stage four lockdown, attracted around 34,200 attendees. MWF sold 27,500 tickets to 41 online,...

Mary Ryan’s Noosa to close

Thursday, 27 August 2020
Mary Ryan's Noosa will close in October 2020. Owners Ross and Susan Burgess purchased the business in June 2010, and are closing the store due to illness. A spokesperson for...

Rijneveld wins International Booker Prize

Thursday, 27 August 2020
Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has won the £50,000 (A$91,310) International Booker Prize for their debut novel The Discomfort of Evening (trans by Michele Hutchinson, Faber), reports the Bookseller. Rijneveld's...

Ned Kelly Awards 2020 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 26 August 2020
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best crime fiction...

The Guardian on the coming flood of new releases

Wednesday, 26 August 2020
'The books business can sometimes feel like fast fashion—pile ’em high, move ’em along a couple of weeks later to make space for the next new thing. This speed is...

Vale John Bangsund

Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Editor John Bangsund has died, aged 81. Bangsund edited the Hugo Award–nominated fanzine the Australian Science Fiction Review in the late 1960s, helped organise the 1975 World Science Fiction Convention...

Hardie Grant, RMIT announce new narrative nonfiction prize

Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing have established a new biennial developmental prize for narrative nonfiction. Open to published and unpublished Australian writers, the Spark Prize offers $2000...

Bookstore cafe for sale

Wednesday, 26 August 2020
A family owned and run secondhand bookshop and cafe for sale located in the Sutherland Shire, Sydney. New location and fitout, floor to ceiling book shelves, amazing venue for functions...

RWA awards 2020 winners announced

Wednesday, 26 August 2020
The winners of the 2020 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the Ruby Awards, have been announced. The winners include: Contemporary romance The...

Ellmann, Szirtes win James Tait Black prizes

Monday, 24 August 2020
In the UK, Lucy Ellmann and George Szirtes have won the James Tait Black prizes for fiction and biography respectively. Ellmann won the fiction prize for her novel Ducks, Newburyport...

Lui to curate new A&U imprint

Monday, 24 August 2020
Writer, actor and director Nakkiah Lui will curate a new imprint, Joan, at Allen & Unwin (A&U). Named for Lui’s grandmother, the imprint will commission books across all genres, with...

ABDA 2020 winners announced

Friday, 21 August 2020
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the winners of the 2020 Australian Book Design Awards. Chosen from shortlists announced in April, the winners in each category are: Best...

Light wins 2020 PEN/Ackerley Prize

Friday, 21 August 2020
In the UK, Alison Light has won the 2020 PEN/Ackerley Prize for a work of memoir or autobiography, for her memoir A Radical Romance (Fig Tree), reports the Bookseller. Light...

Magabala announces fellowship for mid-career writers

Friday, 21 August 2020
Magabala Books has launched a new fellowship for mid-career First Nations writers and storytellers, worth $10,000. The Magabala Fellowship, supported by the Serp Hills Foundation, is open to Aboriginal and...

US publishing sales down 4.2% in first half of 2020

Thursday, 20 August 2020
According to the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) latest StatShot report, the US publishing industry’s revenues were down 4.2% in the first half of 2020, although trade sales were up...

ILF to hold Indigenous Literacy Day YouTube event

Thursday, 20 August 2020
This year, in lieu of its usual celebration at the Sydney Opera House, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) will post a 45-minute 'visual event' on its YouTube channel to celebrate...

Fry, Tu appointed Age/SMH emerging book critics

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Book critics Declan Fry and Jessie Tu have been appointed to write for Nine’s newspapers, replacing Jack Callil and Bec Kavanagh, who resigned from the Copyright Agency/Judith Neilson Institute-funded emerging...

 

 

 

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