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...
Adventure time: Shivaun Plozza on ‘The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars’
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Shivaun Plozza's middle-grade debut The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars (Puffin, 20 October) is a fantasy adventure about a boy who is tasked with returning the stars to the sky....
Indigenous Literacy Day to stream on YouTube; Lui to curate new A&U imprint
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
The ILF will hold its annual Indigenous Literacy Day celebration as a ‘visual event’ on its YouTube channel on Wednesday, 2 September. Allen & Unwin has announced that writer, actor...
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 Open to published and unpublished Australian writers, the Spark Prize offers $2000...
Kunahlan joins Hardie Grant, Collins promoted to communications director
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Shalini Kunahlan has joined Hardie Grant Publishing as head of marketing for Hardie Grant Books and Hardie Grant Travel. Kasi Collins, who led the successful campaign for Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir...
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...
Readings announces 2020 New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist
Tuesday, 25 August 2020
Readings has announced the shortlist for its 2020 New Australian Fiction Prize. The shortlisted books are: The Animals In That Country (Laura Jean McKay, Scribe) Dolores (Lauren Aimee Curtis, W&N)...
CWF 2020: All live events sold out; ‘strong uptake’ for streaming
Monday, 24 August 2020
This year’s Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) included a mix of live and online-only events with over 60 artists. All events were streamed, with 34 writers and moderators appearing in-person and...
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...
Synchronicity Australia options FitzGerald’s ‘Ash Mountain’ for screen
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Synchronicity Australia, the new Melbourne-based arm of Glasgow production company Synchronicity Films, has acquired screen rights to Helen FitzGerald's forthcoming novel Ash Mountain (Affirm, March 2021). Affirm Press described Ash Mountain...
ACT Writers Centre: 2021 artistic program call-out
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
The ACT Writers Centre is calling for authors interested in participating in its 2021 program. At this stage, next year’s program will comprise many digital and possibly physical events in...
Ali Cobby Eckermann on the necessity of writing
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
'My decision to share my personal story through literature has been paramount to my emotional and holistic health, the cathartic telling guided by many senior healers and law-holders from my...
Page appointed Dymocks Sydney general manager
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Jon Page, currently buyer at Dymocks Sydney, has been promoted to general manager. In the newly created role he will have responsibility for overall store operations of the flagship Sydney...
Vale Noel Hammond
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Murdoch Books and Allen & Unwin national business development manager Noel Hammond has died. Allen & Unwin writes: It is with great sadness that Murdoch Books and Allen & Unwin...
Hope in chaos: Asphyxia on ‘Future Girl’
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Writer and artist Asphyxia's illustrated YA novel Future Girl (A&U, October) is set in an 'eerily plausible' dystopian Melbourne, and follows a Deaf teen Piper as she learns to embrace her...
Fed govt to propose copyright reforms, Williams appointed interim SWF artistic director
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
The federal government will propose reforms to Australia’s copyright laws in exposure draft legislation it expects to release later this year, and former Wheeler Centre director Michael Williams has been...
Hachette announces paid summer internship program
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Hachette Australia has announced it will run a new annual paid internship program ‘for anyone interested in a career in publishing’. The Hachette Australia Summer Internship Program will run for...
Change for Cordite Publishing Inc.
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Publisher: Cordite Publishing Inc. New distributor: NewSouth Books Changeover date: 1 August 2020 Contact URL: adscs@alliancedist.com.au
Change for Severn House Publishers
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Old distributor: DLS Distribution Services New distributor: Gardners UK Changeover date: 1 October 2020 Contact URL: www.gardners.com
Change for powerHouse Books
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Publisher: powerHouse Books Old distributor: Penguin Random House Australia New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 July 2020 Contact URL: orders@harpercollins.com.au
Walker Wednesday attracts over 1200 submissions
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
The Walker Wednesday open day attracted over 1200 submissions! These ranged from picture books to junior fiction to YA, with projects covering a vast array of topics. They were submitted...
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