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Editors NSW: Copyright and copyright issues presentation

Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Editors NSW is running a presentation on the basics of copyright and common copyright issues in publishing, presented by Australian Society of Authors (ASA) legal services manager Olivia Lanchester. Topics...

Editors Victoria: Dinner meeting with Joe Reich

Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Editors Victoria is holding a dinner meeting with Joe Reich, the recently appointed director of Melbourne Jewish Book Week. Reich will speak about what’s involved and what it’s like to...

Dymocks celebrates 140th anniversary

Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Dymocks is celebrating its 140th anniversary this year with an anniversary party instore at Dymocks Sydney on 27 May. William Dymock opened the first Dymock's Book Arcade in Market Street,...

Edemariam awarded 2019 Ondaatje Prize

Wednesday, 15 May 2019
In the UK, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam has won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for her memoir The Wife's Tale: A Personal History (Fourth Estate), which tells the...

Kidman wins 2019 New Zealand Book Award for fiction

Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Fiona Kidman has won the NZ$53,000 (A$50,200) fiction prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her novel This Mortal Boy (Vintage). Judges said that This Mortal Boy, which...

Shortlist announced for inaugural Fogarty Literary Award

Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Fremantle Press has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award, an unpublished manuscript award for young writers in Western Australia, worth $20,000. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘Where the...

Mary Gilmore Award 2019 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 15 May 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Mary Gilmore Award, presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) for the best first book of poetry published in the past...

Sinclair, Castrique win Nature Writing Prize 2019

Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Jenny Sinclair and Sue Castrique have been named joint winners of the $10,000 Nature Writing Prize 2019, awarded biennially by the Nature Conservancy. Sinclair’s essay An Orchard for my Father...

No Vogel to be awarded this year

Tuesday, 14 May 2019
The judges for this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award have announced they will not award the prize this year, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. For the third time in the award’s...

Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced

Monday, 13 May 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards, for writing first published online or electronically, have been announced. Fiction ‘Toot toot’ (Rachel Ang, Going Down Swinging) ‘Osaka’ (Alexander Bennetts,...

Levy steps down at LEG; redundancy announced

Monday, 13 May 2019
The Leading Edge Group (LEG) has announced several changes to its staff, including a redundancy. In an email to suppliers, director of business services Kate Levy announced she would step...

Armitage named UK poet laureate

Monday, 13 May 2019
English poet Simon Armitage has been named the UK's poet laureate, after Imtiaz Dharker turned down the position earlier this month. The Guardian reports that Armitage 'had no hesitation whatsoever about...

Peter Carey Short Story Award 2019 longlist announced

Monday, 13 May 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Peter Carey Short Story Award has been announced. The 14 longlisted stories are: ‘Elisabeth Kubler Ross’ (Paige Clark) ‘Mother’s Arbour’ (Jessica Andretta) ‘Beasley’s Corner’ (Jessica...

Carlomagno wins 2019 Rosie Award

Friday, 10 May 2019
Julia Carlomagno has won the 2019 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the ‘Rosie’, for her work on Adult Fantasy (Briohny Doyle, Scribe). Judges described Adult Fantasy as ‘a brilliant blend...

Lost in Books to host IBBY Honour Books exhibition

Friday, 10 May 2019
Multilingual children’s bookshop Lost in Books, situated in the Sydney suburb of Fairfield, is hosting the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Best Books of the World Exhibition,...

Gould steps down as Booksellers NZ CEO

Friday, 10 May 2019
Booksellers NZ CEO Lincoln Gould is stepping down after 10 years in the role. Gould will work through to October, with the board aiming to choose a new CEO by...

black&write! Writing Fellowship 2019 winners announced

Wednesday, 8 May 2019
The 2019 black&write! Fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Adelaide-based writer Tania Crampton-Larking and Canberra-based writer Lisa Fuller. Crampton-Larking, who returned to her birthplace...

The Next Chapter 2019 applications open

Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Applications for The Next Chapter 2019 are now open. Run by the Wheeler Centre, The Next Chapter is a scheme for supporting new Australian writers. It offers 10 writers funding...

RiP Kunmanara Williams

Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Artist, activist and author Kunmanara Williams has died, aged 68. Born in 1952 between Kenmore Park and Pukatja in South Australia, Williams won numerous art prizes and his work has...

Macmillan Learning commits to accessible ebooks for students

Wednesday, 8 May 2019
In the US, Macmillan Learning has committed to ‘born accessible’ ebook options for students with disabilities, as the first publisher to become Global Certified Accessible, reports Publishers Weekly. Born accessible...

Omar Sakr’s ‘The Lost Arabs’

Wednesday, 8 May 2019
‘The poems have a vivid and insistent sense of place and identity, with Sakr’s bisexuality threading throughout the work, and will speak especially to young Arab readers, while Sakr’s sense...

RiP Peter Alexander

Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Bookseller Peter Alexander has died, aged 61. Allen & Unwin chairman Patrick Gallagher writes: ‘Bookselling colleagues and golfing friends alike are deeply shocked by the sudden death of Peter Alexander...

 

 

 

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