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Homecooked Comics Festival to run 17–18 August in Melbourne

Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Homecooked Comics Festival is a two-day indie comic book festival, featuring book launches, children's activities, workshops and a free market day, where comics creators will sell their work, alongside representatives...

National e-deposit service launched this week

Wednesday, 14 August 2019
The national e-deposit service (NED), a collaboration between Australia’s national, state and territory libraries, will launch at the National Library of Australia (NLA) this week. The project provides digital infrastructure...

Book designer spotlight: Sandy Cull

Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Sandy Cull spent ‘12 wonderful years’ as a designer at Penguin Australia—where she designed the first two editions of Stephanie Alexander’s The Cook’s Companion—before returning to freelance in 2006. She...

You Can Change the World

Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Did you know that there are more plastic flamingos in the world than real ones? That if you joined all the pieces of plastic in the ocean together, they would...

UK retailers demand business tax reform

Wednesday, 14 August 2019
In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) has joined with more than 50 retailers in signing an open letter demanding the government take action on the business rates system, reports...

SLV: Faine to deliver Stephen Murray-Smith memorial lecture

Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Broadcaster Jon Faine will deliver the State Library Victoria’s 2019 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture on 17 September, before signing off from ABC’s airwaves after 23 years. In his lecture, titled...

Editors Victoria: Editing Diverse Voices seminar

Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Editors Victoria is running a seminar on editing diverse voices in October. The seminar will explain the best editorial practice for inclusivity and diversity, how we can transcend our biases...

Arnott’s ‘Flames’ shortlisted for Not the Booker

Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Hobart-based author Robbie Arnott has been shortlisted for the Guardian’s 2019 Not the Booker prize. Arnott’s debut, Flames (Text), was one of six shortlisted titles chosen from a longlist of...

ASA, HQ launch $10,000 commercial fiction prize

Tuesday, 13 August 2019
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins imprint HQ have announced a new commercial fiction prize for an unpublished manuscript. The winner of the ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize will receive...

Foyles to install libraries in luxury UK retirement homes

Tuesday, 13 August 2019
In the UK, bookselling chain Foyles has made a deal with developer Elysian Residences to install libraries in its high-end retirement homes, reports the Times. For each Elysian Residences development,...

Overland VU Short Story Prize 2019 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 13 August 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Overland Victoria University (VU) Short Story Prize for new writers has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Quinn’ by Claire Aman ‘Starving in the land...

Publishers Weekly

Monday, 12 August 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This...

HarperCollins earnings up six percent in fiscal 2018–19

Monday, 12 August 2019
In the US, HarperCollins has reported a six percent rise in earnings despite flat annual revenue for the 2018–19 fiscal year, reports Publishers Weekly. EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation,...

RWA awards 2019 winners announced

Monday, 12 August 2019
The winners of the 2019 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the Ruby Awards, were announced on 10 August at the RWA conference...

‘Axiomatic’ sold to UK’s Fitzcarraldo Editions

Friday, 9 August 2019
Small press Brow Books has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Maria Tumarkin’s Axiomatic—‘a boundary-shifting fusion of thinking, storytelling, reportage and meditation’—to independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions. The deal follows the...

Melbourne Writers Festival interrogates love

Friday, 9 August 2019
‘When We Talk About Love’ is the heart-interrogating theme of this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 30 August to 8 September, with sessions that explore ‘our love for people,...

Liminal Fiction Prize shortlist announced

Friday, 9 August 2019
Liminal magazine has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Liminal Fiction Prize. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Bryant Apolonio, for ‘Bad Weather’ Claire Cao, for ‘See You Tomorrow’...

 

 

 

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