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...
EWF 2019 program announced
Thursday, 16 May 2019
The program has been announced for this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival, which runs in Melbourne from 19-29 June. More than 300 guests will appear at over 70 events. The opening...
Serong shortlisted for £15,000 Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Jock Serong has been shortlisted for the £15,000 (A$28,230) Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize, for his novel Preservation (Text). Preservation is one of six novels shortlisted for the prize, which celebrates...
Young wins 2019 Text Prize for ‘Loner’
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Melbourne writer Georgina Young has won the 2019 Text Prize for her YA novel, Loner. Loner is a ‘humorous and heartfelt exploration of new adulthood’ set in Melbourne’s South Eastern...
‘The Big Four’ wins Ashurst Business Literature Prize
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Ian Gow and Stuart Kells have won this year's Ashurst Business Literature Prize for their book The Big Four: The Curious and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly (La...
Australian Reading Hour ambassadors’ books covers revealed
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Australian Reading Hour (ARH) has revealed the covers of the five books by its children’s ambassadors being published for this year’s event on 19 September. The Wiggles Love Books! (Five...
ILF Great Book Swap
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation has opened registrations for this year's Great Book Swap. As part of UNESCO’s focus on Indigenous languages this year, ILF is inviting workplaces to find out...
The Vogel should have been awarded, argues Jane Rawson
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
'How about setting up a prize for emerging writers over forty? How about one for an emerging writer whose career has been delayed by raising children, caring for parents, making...
The Collaborator
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
An act of heroism, the taint of collaboration, a doomed love affair, and an Australian woman who travels across the world to discover the truth. It is 1944 in Budapest...
ALIA concerned about proposed merger of SLWA with gallery, museum
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has written to the WA government in response to a report in the Australian about a proposed amalgamation of the State Library of...
Galleys and galleries: The art and design book market
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Australian art gallery attendance is at an all-time high and BookScan data suggests a correlation between gallery attendance and the sales of illustrated art and design books. Kelsey Oldham explores the...
Gregg Dreise’s ‘My Culture and Me’
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
‘This book is perfect for Indigenous children who are finding their place in the revitalisation of Indigenous culture around Australia and will also appeal to primary school-aged children learning about...
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