The ‘new Australian sensibility’: Literary agent Barbara J Zitwer on discovering Australian writers
Friday, 24 May 2019
New York-based literary agent Barbara J Zitwer represents writers including Man Booker International Prize-winner Han Kang, and recently sold rights on behalf of her Australian authors Jamie Marina Lau and...
PRH buys minority stake in US independent publisher Sourcebooks
Friday, 24 May 2019
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH) has bought a significant minority stake in independent publisher Sourcebooks. Sourcebooks will retain its majority ownership of 55% while PRH now owns a...
Peter Carey Short Story Award 2019 shortlist announced
Friday, 24 May 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Peter Carey Short Story Award has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Elisabeth Kubler Ross’ by Paige Clark ‘Place, Lost’ by Laura Elvery ‘Sketch in...
Copyright Agency announces inaugural Reading Australia Teacher Fellow
Friday, 24 May 2019
The Copyright Agency has announced the inaugural Reading Australia Fellow for a teacher of English and literacy. Alex Wharton, from Carinya Christian School in Gunnedah, NSW, receives $15,000 for a...
MWF schools’ program 2019 announced
Friday, 24 May 2019
The program for the 2019 Melbourne Writers Festival schools’ program has been announced. More than 60 writers, artists and performers will feature in over 70 events from 2–5 September, with...
Higgie wins inaugural Fogarty Literary Award for ‘The History of Mischief’
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Rebecca Higgie has won the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript for her novel The History of Mischief. Higgie receives a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation...
Wellcome Book Prize suspended after 10 years
Thursday, 23 May 2019
In the UK, the Wellcome Book Prize has been suspended after 10 years of being awarded, reports the Bookseller. Founded in 2009 by UK biomedical research charity the Wellcome Trust,...
The value of sensitivity readers
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
‘A science fiction writer needs to know how an object moves in zero gravity, or what a black hole looks like ... a cis, white, able bodied writer should be...
IPEd conference 2019: pay rates, copyright discussed
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
More than 300 delegates attended this year's National Editors Conference in Melbourne in May, under the theme ‘Beyond the page’. Run by the Institute for Professional Editors (IPEd), the peak...
Publishers Publicity Circle update
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
The next Sydney Publishers Publicity Circle (PPC) meeting will be held on Wednesday, 19 June at Allen & Unwin, 83 Alexander Street, Crows Nest. Lara Wallace is chair of the...
Eight local titles make ALIA most borrowed list 2019
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has partnered with library provider Civica to compile a list of most borrowed books from Australian libraries from April 2018 to March 2019...
Georgia Spanos on ‘When the Tomatoes Are Ready’
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Georgia Spanos is a Melbourne-based writer, editor and 'advocate for all things food and culture'. When she’s not the digital editor at Halliday magazine, she is working on her second...
Varuna: Advanced memoir residential masterclass
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Varuna is accepting applications for Advanced Memoir: A Residential Masterclass with Patti Miller. Join acclaimed memoirist Patti Miller for a very special week at Varuna, the National Writers’ House in...
Miles Franklin 2019 longlist announced
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text) Boy Swallows...
Canadian parliamentary review recommends reform of Copyright Act
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
A Canadian parliamentary committee has recommended the government undertake broad reform of the country’s copyright policies, following a review of the fallout following the implementation of the 2012 Copyright Modernization...
Alharthi wins Man Booker International Prize 2019
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Omani writer Jokha Alharthi has won the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her novel Celestial Bodies (trans by Marilyn Booth, Sandstone Press). Alharthi is the first winner from the Arabian...
Readings YA Prize 2019 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Readings Young Adult Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Highway Bodies (Alison Evans, Echo) What I Like About Me (Jenna Guillaume, Pan) Stone Girl (Eleni Hale,...
Four authors to promote Oz crime fiction in US
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Four Australian writers will travel to the US to promote Australian crime writing, after receiving a $25,000 career development grant last week. Sulari Gentill, Robert Gott, Jock Serong and Emma...
Scribe acquires Madeleine Ryan’s debut novel
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Scribe has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to debut literary novel A Room Called Earth by Australian writer Madeleine Ryan, via Barbara Zitwer of the Barbara J Zitwer Agency. The...
Antrobus wins Folio Prize for poetry collection ‘The Perseverance’
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
In the UK, poet Raymond Antrobus has won the £30,000 (A$55,260) Rathbones Folio Prize for his collection The Perseverance (Penned In The Margins), becoming the first poet to win the...
Crowdfunding campaign for First Nations and POC Writers Count launched
Monday, 20 May 2019
The First Nations and People of Colour Writers (FNPOC) Count has launched a crowdfunding campaign through the Australian Cultural Fund to cover the cost of its research project. The FNPOC...
New US tariffs on Chinese imports to include books
Monday, 20 May 2019
The office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has issued a notice that books are among the US$300 billion (A$435bn) in Chinese imports set to face a 25% tariff, reports...
Remiger wins 2019 Michael Gifkins Prize
Monday, 20 May 2019
Tom McLean, writing as Tom Remiger, has won the 2019 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel for his novel Soldiers. Chosen from a shortlist of three, Soldiers (shortlisted as...
Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival launches crowdfunding campaign for 2019 event
Friday, 17 May 2019
The organisers of the Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival, which is set to run this year from 12–28 July, have begun a crowdfunding campaign after unsuccessful applications for Australia...
Gunaratne wins 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize
Friday, 17 May 2019
In the UK, British-Sri Lankan writer Guy Gunaratne has won the 2019 International Dylan Thomas Prize for his debut novel In Our Mad and Furious City (Tinder). In Our Mad...
Writers Victoria announces Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients
Friday, 17 May 2019
Writers Victoria has announced the fourth round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. Twelve successful writers, booksellers and publishers were selected from 111 applicants to receive a...
‘Girl Stuff 8–12’ tops Australian children’s/YA nonfiction bestsellers chart
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Kaz Cooke’s go-to guides for pre-teen and teenage girls, Girl Stuff 8–12 and the original Girl Stuff, are at number one and eight, respectively, on the Australian nonfiction children’s/YA bestsellers...
‘Lifel1ke’ wins best sci-fi novel at Aurealis Awards
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Jay Kristoff’s YA novel Lifel1k3 (Allen & Unwin)—which is pitched as Romeo and Juliet meets Mad Max meets X-Men—has been named best science-fiction novel at the Aurealis Awards for science-fiction, fantasy and...
A closer look at Australian children’s nonfiction
Thursday, 16 May 2019
In this issue of Think Australian Junior we take a closer look at the bestselling Australian children’s nonfiction with a new children’s/YA nonfiction chart (adding to the monthly rotation of Australian...
Sophie Beer board books sold to the US
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold North American rights to two board books by illustrator Sophie Beer to Penguin imprint Dial Books. Beer’s Love Makes a Family and its forthcoming companion...
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