Six Australian nominees for 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Friday, 30 October 2020
Six Australian authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. The Australian candidates are: Jeannie...
‘The Unforgiven’ shortlisted for UK sports book award
Friday, 30 October 2020
Ashley Gray’s The Unforgiven (Pitch Publishing) has been shortlisted for the UK-based William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. The Unforgiven tells the story of the 20 West Indies...
Wakefield announces YA horror anthology winning submissions
Thursday, 29 October 2020
Wakefield Press has announced the winning submissions to its national callout for contributions to its YA fiction anthology Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales. The four winning stories are: An 'intense,...
Inaugural $50k Historical Novel Prize shortlist announced
Thursday, 29 October 2020
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlist for the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. The shortlisted novels are: Master of My Fate (Sienna Brown, Vintage) Shepherd (Catherine...
McClymont receives Danger Lifetime Achievement Award
Thursday, 29 October 2020
Walkley Award–winning investigative journalist Kate McClymont is the winner of the 2020 Danger Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Bad: Sydney Crime Writers Festival. ‘Kate McClymont is a genuine investigative journalist....
Vale Garry Eastman
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Garry Eastman, director of Garratt Publishing, died on 14 October 2020. Eastman, who established what was then called John Garratt Publishing in 1995, was a long-time member of the Australian...
Robotham: the government’s neglect of writers is political
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
'We writers give far more to the economy and society and our culture than we ever take back. We are not looking for patronage or political favours, we are simply...
The Small Press Network—2020 Independent Publishing Conference online
Wednesday, 28 October 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 Better Link Press
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Publisher: Better Link Press Old distributor: NewSouth Books Changeover date: 31 October 2020 Returns cut-off: 31 December 2020
Change for National Geographic—Adult
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Publisher: National Geographic—Adult New distributor: Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) Changeover date: 1 October 2020
Change for APA Publications
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Publisher: APA Publications Old distributor: Woodslane Pty Ltd New distributor: Booktopia Changeover date: 1 December 2020 Returns cut-off: 23 December 2020
Robotham wins Gold Dagger, new publishing houses launched
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
In awards news this week, crime writer Michael Robotham won this year’s CWA Gold Dagger award for best crime novel, becoming the first Australian to win the award twice. Maria...
‘Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands’ wins Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
In the UK, Hazel V Carby has won the £25,000 (A$46,750) Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso), reports the Bookseller....
Ibrahim wins 2020 Heyman Mentorship Award
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
HarperCollins Australia and Kathryn Heyman of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program have announced Naima Ibrahim as the winner of the 2020 Heyman Mentorship Award. Ibrahim’s winning fiction manuscript follows 10-year-old...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Please note that due to the Melbourne Cup holiday in Victoria on Tuesday, 3 November, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 5 November.
‘Hello Friend We Missed You’ wins 2020 Not the Booker
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Welsh writer Richard Owain Roberts has won the Guardian’s 2020 Not the Booker Prize for his debut novel Hello Friend We Missed You (Parthian Books). Roberts’ novel won the public vote...
Arts South Australia announces latest grant recipients
Monday, 26 October 2020
Arts South Australia has announced the successful recipients in its latest round of Arts and Culture Grants. Among the 25 successful applicants of the August 2020 round are the following...
Danger Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Monday, 26 October 2020
The Bad: Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlist for this year’s Danger Prize, awarded for the best book, film, podcast or TV drama about Sydney and crime. The...
Bird’s ‘The Air Year’ wins Forward Poetry Prize
Monday, 26 October 2020
In the UK, Caroline Bird’s poetry collection The Air Year (Carcanet) has won the £10,000 (A$18,320) Forward Prize for best poetry collection, reports the Bookseller. Judging panel chair Alexandra Harris described...
‘Mophead’ takes PANZ Book Design Awards hat-trick
Monday, 26 October 2020
The winners of the 2020 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh (Auckland University Press) took a hat-trick at the...
Robotham wins Gold Dagger
Monday, 26 October 2020
Michael Robotham has won the 2020 UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger for Good Girl Bad Girl (Hachette). Good Girl Bad Girl was one of six titles shortlisted for...
Papas wins 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award
Monday, 26 October 2020
Perth writer Maria Papas has won the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript for 'I Belong to the Lake', a work of literary fiction about a family's...
McGuire wins 2020 Ray Koppe Residency
Thursday, 22 October 2020
Melbourne writer Tim McGuire has won the Australian Society of Authors (ASA)’s 2020 Ray Koppe Young Writers Residency for his manuscript ‘Game Farm’. McGuire's literary suspense novel is a creative...
‘Flames’ to be adapted for screen
Thursday, 22 October 2020
Flames, the debut novel by Robbie Arnott (Text), will be developed into a six-part television series with Tasmanian government funding of $20,000. The project, which will be produced by Jungle...
Two in three UK authors, illustrators report loss of income
Thursday, 22 October 2020
In the UK, a Society of Authors (SoA) survey of the financial impact of Covid-19 has found 65% of authors, illustrators and literary translators have reported a loss of income—up...
No ‘Daily’ on Friday
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Please note that due to Victoria's AFL Grand Final public holiday on Friday, 23 October, the next 'Daily' newsletter will be published on Monday, 26 October.
Ampersand Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing (HGCP) has announced the shortlist for its 2020 Ampersand Prize for unpublished young adult and middle-grade fiction. The five shortlisted authors and their works are: Conan...
The arts as a social justice project
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
‘There’s no possible diverse, thriving, funded art sector without a materially just society that acts on issues like decommodifying housing and issuing a universal basic income. Diversity in the arts...
CBCA Book of the Year winners; Watkins appointed Ultimo publishing director
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
The winners of the CBCA Book of the Year awards were announced last week, while a new study found CBCA early childhood category shortlisted books to be overwhelmingly white. In...
Valder promoted to S&S
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Caroline Valder has been promoted to the newly created position of operations director at Simon & Schuster Australia in Sydney. Valder began the position on 1 October 2020.
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