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Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist announced

Wednesday, 22 April 2020
The 2020 shortlist for the £30,000 (A$58,600) Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: Girl, Woman, Other (Bernardine Evaristo, Hamish Hamilton) The Mirror & The Light...

Editors NSW online meeting

Wednesday, 22 April 2020
By Zoom: News—good, bad, fake? What Corpora can tell us about language usage Corpora—large collections of language as it is used, marked up to support a wide range of searches—are...

Change for Argonautica Press

Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Publisher: Argonautica Press Old distributor: No previous distributor New distributor: Novella Distribution Changeover date: 1 May 2020 Contact URL: bookstores.novelladistribution.com.au

Shortlist for £10,000 Ondaatje Prize announced

Tuesday, 21 April 2020
The 2020 shortlist for the £10,000 (A$19,520) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced. The annual award recognises books ‘of the highest literary merit—fiction, nonfiction or poetry—which best...

‘A Treacherous Country’ wins 2020 Vogel

Monday, 20 April 2020
A Treacherous Country by K M Kruimink is the winner of the 2020 The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Publisher...

PW launches #BooksAreEssential campaign

Monday, 20 April 2020
US trade publication Publishers Weekly (PW) has launched a new social media campaign to promote the importance of books. The #BooksAreEssential hashtag was created in response to the shutdown of...

Five ANZ publishers nominated for Bologna Prize

bologna logo Monday, 20 April 2020
Australian publishers Affirm Press, Hardie Grant Egmont and Windy Hollow Books, and New Zealand's Huia Publishers and Oratia Media, have been shortlisted for the 2020 Bologna Prize for Best Children’s...

Change for Shawline Publishing Group

Thursday, 16 April 2020
Publisher: Shawline Publishing Group New distributor: Novella Distribution Changeover date: 1 March 2020 Contact: via website.

Changes at Books+Publishing

Thursday, 16 April 2020
Owner and publisher of Books+Publishing Gary Pengelly writes:  ‘Like everyone in the industry at this time, Books+Publishing continues to look for ways to contribute to the Australian bookselling and publishing...

MWF 2020 to take place online

Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which is scheduled to run 7–16 August 2020, will deliver a smaller online program due to the Covid-19 crisis. 'Our team is at home thinking, reading...

PRH Spain introduces online direct sales platform

Wednesday, 15 April 2020
In Spain, Penguin Random House (PRH) has launched Mugustaleer, a direct sales ecommerce platform for print books, after several weeks of country-wide lockdown measures that have included bookshop closures. Ten...

Shortlist announced for 2020 Jhalak Prize for BAME writers

Wednesday, 15 April 2020
The shortlist for the UK’s Jhalak Prize for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Black Flamingo (Dean Atta, Hodder Children’s) Remembered...