Call for submissions for Commercial Fiction Fellowship for First Nation Writers
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
Harlequin Australia at HarperCollinsPublishers has partnered with Flinders University and Writers SA to offer a commercial fiction fellowship for First Nations Writers. The fellowship offers a First Nations writer a...
PANZ Book Design Awards entries open
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
Publishers Association of NZ (PANZ) has announced it has opened entries for the 2019 Book Design Awards. All entry forms and criteria are also available on the website. Entries close...
‘The Trauma Cleaner’ shortlisted for Wellcome Book Prize
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster (Text) is one of six books shortlisted for the UK’s Wellcome Book Prize. The annual prize,...
2019 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals shortlists announced
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
In the UK, the shortlists for the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals 2019 have been announced. The works shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for an outstanding book for children and...
ABDA launches half-price student membership; announces 2019 awards date
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has introduced its first student membership. Available to full-time and part-time students studying graphic or communication design in Australia, the student membership is priced...
Muhling appointed EWF executive director
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
Alice Muhling has commenced in her role as executive director of the Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF). A creative producer and arts manager, Muhling has previously held the positions of acting...
The author next door: Stocking self-published books
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Kelsey Oldham talks to booksellers about stocking self-published books. Most Australian bookshops acknowledge that stocking self-published books is important—in theory. In practice, however, store policies are often opaque or ad-hoc,...
Tales of the unexpected: Events at Riverbend Books
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Events manager Vicky Tosh shares the joys and hiccups of managing author events at Brisbane’s Riverbend Books. Before I was hired at Riverbend Books, I had never worked in a...
Unlikely heroes: R W R McDonald on ‘The Nancys’
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
R W R McDonald’s debut novel The Nancys (A&U in June) was highly commended in the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards unpublished manuscript prize. Reviewer Fiona Hardy spoke to the author...
Generational exchange: Melanie Cheng on ‘Room for a Stranger’
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Melanie Cheng’s debut novel Room for a Stranger (Text, May) follows the unlikely friendship between an elderly Australian woman and an international student from Hong Kong. Reviewer Carody Culver spoke...
Karys McEwen: Why you should meet your heroes
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
In her first column for 2019, high school library manager Karys McEwen argues that young people have much to gain from interacting with authors in person—but authors need to be...
PRH, Text, Matilda Bookshop and Farrell’s Bookshop awarded at Leading Edge Books Conference
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
A number of industry awards were presented at this year’s Leading Edge Books Conference in Adelaide on 18 March. Penguin Random House was named Publisher of the Year, while Text...
Kinokuniya’s oldest Asian store outside of Japan to close
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
In Singapore, Japanese bookstore chain Kinokuniya is closing down its oldest branch in Asia outside of Japan, reports the Straits Times. Opened in 1983, Kinokuniya at Liang Court shopping mall...
Kissane and Ling win Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2019
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Andy Kissane’s ‘Searching the Dead’ and Belle Ling’s ‘63 Temple Street, Mong Kok’ as the joint winners of the Peter Porter Prize 2019....
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ wins Book of the Year at 2019 Indie Book Awards
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Trent Dalton’s debut novel Boy Swallows Universe (HarperCollins) has been named Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, presented at the Leading Edge Books Conference in Adelaide...
Ashleigh Young longlisted for 2019 Folio Prize
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
New Zealand writer Ashleigh Young has been longlisted for the UK's £30,000 (A$56,000) Rathbones Folio Prize for her essay collection Can You Tolerate This? (Giramondo). Can You Tolerate This? is a...
2019 PRH Literary Prize winner announced
Monday, 18 March 2019
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced that the winner of the 2019 PRH Literary Prize is The Spill by Imbi Neeme. Victorian-based Neeme wins $20,000 (which acts as an advance...
Amsterdam-based publisher wins NGV art and design book prize
Monday, 18 March 2019
Amsterdam-based publisher Van Zoetendaal Publishers has won the 2019 Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing for its book STUFF: Catalogue Archaeological Finds Amsterdam’s North/South Metro Line, written by...
NZSA 2019 writer mentorships announced
Monday, 18 March 2019
Recipients have been selected for the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) mentorship program 2019, with 13 chosen from a pool of 79 applicants. The 2019 recipients are: Semira Davis,...
National Book Critics Circle Awards 2018 winners announced
Monday, 18 March 2019
In the US, the winners of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced. Among the winners, chosen from shortlists announced in January, are: Fiction Milkman (Anna Burns,...
‘The Rosie Result’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Friday, 15 March 2019
Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Result—the final instalment in the internationally bestselling Rosie trilogy—has debuted at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for February. Other new entries in the...
NewSouth Books’ newest rights opportunities
Friday, 15 March 2019
New and upcoming titles from NewSouth include The Thinking Woman, in which Julienne van Loon engages with the work of six leading contemporary thinkers and writers to discover what it...
Oz crime debut sold to UK publisher in two-book deal
Friday, 15 March 2019
Australian crime-fiction continues its globetrotting ways. UK publisher Verve Books has recently acquired world rights to the Debut Dagger-shortlisted crime novel Trust Me, I’m Dead and a second novel by...
Small presses dominate Stella Prize shortlist
Friday, 15 March 2019
The shortlist for the Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing was announced on International Women’s Day last week. Four of the six titles are published by small, independent presses—Jamie Marina...
Helen Garner wins Lifetime Achievement award
Friday, 15 March 2019
Helen Garner has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Garner is the author of more than 14 books of fiction and nonfiction, including Monkey Grip, The...
SWF 2019 program announced
Friday, 15 March 2019
The program has been announced for this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs from 29 April to 5 May. Fifty-five international guests and 360 Australian writers, academics and public...
HBG and Hachette UK sales up despite Lagardère’s profits down
Friday, 15 March 2019
Hachette Book Group (HGB) in the US and Hachette UK have reported 'strong' sales growth in 2018, despite profits falling by 9.6% at parent company Lagardère Publishing. The UK business...
MUP appoints new directors, editorial advisory board
Thursday, 14 March 2019
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has appointed two new directors to its board, and announced eight members of its new editorial advisory board. Former managing director of Oxford University Press Australia...
A&U acquires new Anh Do children’s books in three-series deal
Thursday, 14 March 2019
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to three new children's series by Anh Do. 'Wolf Girl' is the first of three new series aimed at an older readership of...
Santilli joins A&U
Thursday, 14 March 2019
Nicola Santilli has joined Allen & Unwin as editor (children & young adults), and began the position on 4 March. Santilli was previously an editor at Walker Books.
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