Brown wins 2019 ALS Gold Medal
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Pam Brown has won the 2019 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for her poetry collection click here for what we do (Vagabond). Brown’s collection was chosen from a shortlist...
Avid Reader in-store with Patrick Boone: Publishing around the globe
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Join Patrick Boone for a talk about book publishing, selling, and distributing in the Netherlands. Patrick has interviewed start-ups in Iran, bookshops in India, and publishers in Nepal—his experience means...
Five Mile sells UK, US and Canadian rights to Love Your Body
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Five Mile has sold UK, US and Canadian rights to Jessica Sanders’ picture book Love Your Body (illus by Carol Rossetti) to the Quarto Group. With the latest deal, made...
Publishers Weekly
Tuesday, 2 July 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...
Boochani, Fidler, Winch announced in first line-up for Ubud 2019
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced its first guests for the 2019 festival, which will run from 23–27 October in Ubud, Indonesia. Headlining the festival is Kurdish-Iranian journalist...
A&U acquires local rights to C S Pacat YA trilogy
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to C S Pacat’s YA trilogy ‘Dark Rise’. In the trilogy, which is set in an alternate London, ‘the heroes and villains...
Thames & Hudson to open Sydney office; Heath to join as associate publisher
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Thames & Hudson (T&H) has announced an expansion of its Australian publishing division, with former Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) executive publisher Sally Heath to join the company as associate publisher...
Locus Awards winners announced
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
In the US, the winners of the 2019 Locus Awards for science fiction and fantasy writing have been announced. Winners include: The Calculating Stars (Mary Robinette Kowal, Tor) in the...
Retailers to benefit from consolidated music licensing deal
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
From today, retailers will only need to secure one music license to play music in their stores, rather than two separate licenses from two rights management bodies. A new joint...
Happy reading
Monday, 1 July 2019
For good value—we find, source and deliver the best products from all over the world. While doing this, we give you a great shopping experience, since we are always here...
PRH announces inaugural recipients of Write It! program
Monday, 1 July 2019
Penguin Random House Australia has announced the inaugural recipients of its Write It! program for underrepresented writers. Chosen from a shortlist of 12, the four recipients are: Annie McCann for...
UK publishing employment up 3.9% in 2018
Monday, 1 July 2019
In the UK, publishing industry employment was up 3.9% in 2018, growing from 192,000 jobs in 2017 to 199,000 in 2018, reports the Bookseller. The figures from the Department for...
KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award longlist announced
Monday, 1 July 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The longlisted authors and their works are: Pamela Baker for ‘Dark Glass’ (fiction) Shelley Burr...
UK survey finds that older women feel misrepresented in fiction
Friday, 28 June 2019
In the UK, a survey of more than 1000 women over 40 has found that 51% of respondents feel that older women tend to fall into stereotyped roles in fiction,...
Overland announces shortlists for writing residencies
Friday, 28 June 2019
Literary journal Overland has announced the shortlists for two writing residencies that aim to address a lack of opportunities for underrepresented writers. The 2019 program has two categories: women writers...
The Trespassers (Meg Mundell, UQP)
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Meg Mundell’s second novel has been hotly anticipated since her debut, Black Glass, showed her to be a writer of extraordinary imaginative prowess, with a commitment to exploring themes of...
ILF celebrates International Year of Indigenous Languages with bookshop fundraising program
Thursday, 27 June 2019
The Indigenous Literary Foundation (ILF) will mark the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages with a revamped membership program for bookshops. Launched last year, the ILF member program asks member...
Two Australians longlisted for 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
Thursday, 27 June 2019
In the UK, the longlist for the £30,000 (A$54,500) Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award has been announced, with Australian writers Paddy O'Reilly and Paul Dalla Rosa making the 18-strong...
Kill Your Darlings announces New Australian Fiction collection contributors
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced the contributors to its inaugural annual print collection of short stories, New Australian Fiction, due to published in October 2019. The contributors are: Tony...
Amazon responds to NYT feature alleging widespread sales of counterfeit books
Thursday, 27 June 2019
In the US, Amazon has responded to claims made in a New York Times (NYT) feature that the company takes a lax approach to policing counterfeit books, reports Publishers Weekly....
Black Inc. sells Anna Krien’s forthcoming novel to UK
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ and Canada) to Anna Krien’s debut novel Act of Grace (Black Inc., October) to Serpent’s Tail. Editor Hannah Westland acquired...
Sparrow wins 2019 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Jeff Sparrow has won the 2019 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism for his essay ‘A Place of Punishment: No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani’ (Sydney Review of Books). Sparrow was...
Africa Rising summit: ‘African publishing is the new frontier’
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
‘If Iceland, with 300,000 people, can sustain literary culture, why not Africa, where there are 40 million speakers of Yoruba, or 60 million Hausa, and 100 million speaking Swahili?’—In the...
Christchurch’s Tūranga library wins NZ property industry awards
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Christchurch's central library, Tūranga, has won two awards at the 2019 New Zealand Property Industry Awards. Opened in October last year after six years of development and construction, the NZ$93...
ABR announces Behrouz Boochani Fellowship
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced its inaugural $10,000 Behrouz Boochani Fellowship, presented in association with the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne. The fellowship...
Shortlist for 2019 National Biography Award announced
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the 2019 National Biography Award, worth a total of $42,000. The shortlisted works are: No Friend But...
Keefe, Burns win 2019 Orwell Prize
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
In the UK, two authors writing about the conflict in Northern Ireland have been awarded £3000 each (A$5470) as part of the Orwell Prize, reports the Guardian. Patrick Radden Keefe,...
Hachette acquires local rights to debut thriller
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Gold Coast-based author Allie Reynolds' debut novel Shiver, in partnership with Headline UK. Headline’s fiction publishing director Jennifer Doyle won a 10-way auction...
O’Sullivan wins 2019 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Jane O'Sullivan has won the 2019 Lip magazine Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction for her short story 'Limpet Teeth'. Judge Melanie Joosten said O'Sullivan's piece, chosen from a shortlist of 10,...
Better Reading to feature booksellers and librarians
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Better Reading is looking for great bookshops and libraries, booksellers and librarians to feature on our site. Our BR community is highly engaged across social media and loves hearing your...
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