Australia’s literary readership is shrinking Archive
Thursday, 12 March 2020
‘I think we are in a period of stagnation. New titles continue to be published into the established categories, and readers are even more prone than before to act like...
RiP Shirley Stackhouse Archive
Thursday, 12 March 2020
Sydney-based author and gardening personality Shirley Stackhouse has died, aged 92. Stackhouse was the Sydney Morning Herald’s gardening columnist for more than 30 years, during which time she dispatched gardening advice and illustrated the column with...
Editors Victoria: IPEd accreditation information night and workshop Archive
Thursday, 12 March 2020
Calling all editors: demonstrate your professional competence to prospective employers by gaining accreditation from the Institute of Professional Editors. The next accreditation exam will be held on 15 August. Editors...
Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund now open for applications Archive
Thursday, 12 March 2020
The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recognises the unique value of travel in the development of new writing and literary careers. Writers Victoria and the Myer Foundation are pleased to...
ALIA cancels national conference due to coronavirus Archive
Thursday, 12 March 2020
Due to concerns over coronavirus, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has cancelled the ALIA National 2020 Conference, which was scheduled to run 4–8 May at Sydney’s International Convention...
Bologna book fair cancelled Archive
Thursday, 12 March 2020
Due to the spread of coronavirus in Italy, organisers of the Bologna Children's Book Fair (BCBF) have cancelled this year’s rescheduled event, which was due to run from 4–7 May....
Unity Books Auckland wins Bookstore of the Year award at LBF Archive
Thursday, 12 March 2020
Unity Books Auckland has won the Bookstore of the Year Award at the 2020 London Book Fair International Excellence Awards. Unity Books was cited for for ‘their wonderful and “dangerously...
ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize shortlist announced Archive
Thursday, 12 March 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins imprint HQ Fiction have announced the inaugural shortlist for the ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. HQ Fiction publishers and...
Editors NSW: Medical writing and editing Archive
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
The 7 April presentation by Editors NSW focuses on health and medical writing and editing: opportunities and pitfalls. Mark Ragg started his working life as a doctor, moved to journalism,...
Change for Restless Books Archive
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Publisher: Restless Books Old distributor: Simon & Schuster (through HEDS) New distributor: NewSouth Books (through ADS) Changeover date: 1 May 2020 Returns cut-off: 1 August 2020
WestWords to host day-long writing festival Archive
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Western Sydney literature organisation WestWords will host a day-long event in celebration of the ways in which Western Sydney has ‘shaped many diverse and cultural stories’. A Celebration of Writing...
US publishers’ sales up 1.8% in 2019: StatShot Archive
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
In the US, estimates from the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) StatShot program show that US publishers’ sales totalled US$14.7 billion (A$22.6b) in 2019, up 1.8% on the previous year,...
PRH pulls worldwide staff from Bologna Archive
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Penguin Random House (PRH) will not send any staff to the rescheduled Bologna Children’s Book Fair, making it the second of the Big Five publishers to cancel its appearance at...
Barbara Jefferis Award applications opening soon Archive
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Entries will open soon for the 2020 Barbara Jefferis Award, which is awarded to ‘the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive...
Rawson shortlisted for UK’s Kitschies awards for spec fic Archive
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Jane Rawson's novel From the Wreck (Transit Lounge) has been shortlisted in the UK’s Kitschies awards, presented to ‘progressive, intelligent, and entertaining literature with a speculative element’. From the Wreck...
S&S pulls UK, US staff from Bologna Archive
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
Staff from the UK and US divisions of Simon & Schuster (S&S) won’t attend the rescheduled Bologna Children’s Book Fair in May, reports Publishers Weekly. Last month, the fair was postponed...
Wild honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature Archive
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
Australian children's author Margaret Wild has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The award ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60...
Shaw wins Neilma Sidney Prize Archive
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
Wellington-based writer Jenah Shaw has won Overland's Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for travel-themed short fiction, worth $4000, for her story ‘The Houseguest’—about a woman, ‘new to the city and...
Hogan wins Judith Wright Poetry Prize Archive
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
Writer and primary school teacher Dan Hogan has won Overland’s Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets, worth $6000, for their poem ‘No Alarms’. Lou Garcia-Dolnik placed second...
Stella Prize 2020 shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 6 March 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: See What You Made Me Do (Jess Hill, Black Inc.) Diving into Glass (Caro Llewellyn, Hamish Hamilton)...
Pivet-Marsh appointed EWF artistic director Archive
Friday, 6 March 2020
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has announced Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh as its new artistic director. Pivet-Marsh is a writer, producer and community organiser from Melbourne’s inner west, and has been a...
Hachette staff walkout to protest Woody Allen’s memoir Archive
Friday, 6 March 2020
In the US, employees at Grand Central Publishing, Little, Brown and several other Hachette Book Group (HBG) imprints have staged a walkout three days after Grand Central Publishing announced it...
Respect (Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, illus by Lisa Kennedy, Magabala) Archive
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Dream team Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson, who previously brought us the excellent Nganga: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander words and phrases, have collaborated with artist Lisa Kennedy to...
The Year the Maps Changed (Danielle Binks, Lothian) Archive
Thursday, 5 March 2020
The Year the Maps Changed is Melbourne-based writer Danielle Binks’ debut novel. The year is 1999 and in small-town Sorrento, Victoria, 11-year-old Fred is lost within the complexity of a...
Feeling seen: Kay Kerr on ‘Please Don’t Hug Me’ Archive
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Kay Kerr's YA novel Please Don't Hug Me (Text, May) follows 17-year-old Erin as she relays life as a teenager with autism in letters to her brother. Reviewer Charlotte Guest...
Please Don’t Hug Me (Kay Kerr, Text) Archive
Thursday, 5 March 2020
At the suggestion of her psychologist, Erin writes letters to her absent older brother, Rudy. Erin is 17 years old, behind on her savings for Schoolies and freshly unemployed. There...
Bottomley to give keynote at ABA conference Archive
Thursday, 5 March 2020
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the full program for its 2020 conference, to be held at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney from 21–22 June. International guest Nic Bottomley,...
ViacomCBS looks to sell S&S Archive
Thursday, 5 March 2020
In the US, mass media company ViacomCBS is planning to sell Simon & Schuster, reports Publishers Weekly. At a Morgan Stanley investor conference, ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish said it will...
Pomare, Maguire novels to be adapted by new production company Archive
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Wooden Horse, a new Australian production company, has announced screen adaptations of J P Pomare's sophomore thriller In the Clearing (Hachette) and Emily Maguire's 2016 novel An Isolated Incident (Picador)...
LBF dogged by cancellations, industry action group to address climate change, latest awards news Archive
Wednesday, 4 March 2020
After the Bologna Book Fair was postponed last week due to the coronavirus outbreak, international travel plans have been further disrupted with the news that the Big Five publishers are...
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