Editors NSW: manuscript assessment workshop
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Editors NSW is running a workshop titled 'The art of manuscript assessment', presented by Kaaren Sutcliffe. The workshop is aimed at editors who conduct reviews of manuscripts and is also...
Full program announced for 2019 Perth Writers Week
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
The full program has been announced for the 2019 Perth Festival Writers Week, which runs from 18-24 February. International guests attending the festival include Man Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist and...
Echo sells Meg Keneally’s solo debut to US
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Echo Publishing has sold North American rights to Meg Keneally’s debut historical novel Fled to Arcade Publishing. The novel, which is based on the life of convict Mary Bryant, is...
Liminal magazine establishes short fiction prize, partners with Brow Books
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Liminal magazine has established a short fiction prize for Australian writers of colour. The Liminal Fiction Prize seeks to ‘promote fiction by writers whose voices are often ignored or elided’. It...
Sullivan wins 2018 T S Eliot Prize
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
In the UK, London-based poet Hannah Sullivan has won the 2018 T S Eliot Prize for poetry. Sullivan won the prize for her debut collection Three Poems (Faber), making it the third debut...
About the book
Monday, 14 January 2019
Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret. Forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives...
About the author
Monday, 14 January 2019
Bridget Collins trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after reading English at King’s College, Cambridge. She is the author of seven acclaimed books...
Praise for ‘The Binding’
Monday, 14 January 2019
‘Pure magic. The kind of immersive storytelling that makes you forget your own name. I wish I had written it.’—Erin Kelly, author of He Said/She Said and The Poison Tree ‘The Binding is a...
Sample chapter
Monday, 14 January 2019
Read the first chapter of The Binding here.
Reading copy giveaway
Monday, 14 January 2019
Be one of the first to read The Binding. Email Eliza.Auld@harpercollins.com.au with ‘The Binding’ in the subject line for your chance to secure one of five copies.
Presser wins at US National Jewish Book Awards
Monday, 14 January 2019
In the US, Melbourne-based author Bram Presser has won the debut fiction award at the 2018 National Jewish Book Awards for his novel The Book of Dirt (Text). Established in 1950 by the...
Updated format revealed for WA Prem’s awards
Monday, 14 January 2019
The Western Australian state government has revealed the new format for the WA Premier’s Book Awards, which has been reinstated as an annual event. The awards will feature three separate...
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $1.049m funding grants
Monday, 14 January 2019
Thirty-seven arts organisations have received a total of $1.049 million in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Literary organisations and projects that received funding in...
Costa Book Awards 2018 category winners announced
Monday, 14 January 2019
In the UK, the five category winners for the 2018 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The five winners were chosen from shortlists announced in November 2018. The winning authors...
Please complete our post-Christmas survey
Monday, 14 January 2019
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...
NewSouth Books distributing New Frontier Publishing
Wednesday, 9 January 2019
NewSouth Books are thrilled to announce they will be taking over distribution for New Frontier Publishing from 1 April 2019. Distribution of their Catch A Star imprint will begin from...
Changes in New Frontier Distribution
Wednesday, 9 January 2019
From 1 April 2019, Scholastic will no longer have the distribution rights for the following publisher: New Frontier Scholastic will cease accepting books into our warehouse on 31 March 2019....
Podcast spotlight: what’s next?
Friday, 21 December 2018
Over the last 12 months, Nathania Gilson has been interviewing Australian book podcasters—from passion projects to national radio broadcasters, from hybrid experiments to extensions of retail brands, festivals or traditional...
Marsden awarded 2018 Dromkeen Medal
Friday, 14 December 2018
The State Library Victoria (SLV) has awarded the 2018 Dromkeen Medal to author John Marsden. Marsden is the author of more than 40 books, including the ‘Tomorrow’ series, which is...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The shortlists for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text) Ironbark (Jay Carmichael, Scribe) The Fireflies of Autumn: And...
Podcast spotlight: The Wheeler Centre podcast
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Established in 2010, The Wheeler Centre (TWC) podcast features full recordings of talks hosted in TWC building in Melbourne. TWC senior digital editor Jon Tjhia has been working on the...
Report shows 127 UK libraries closed last year
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) has found that 127 libraries closed in the UK last year and a continued decline in overall spending and staff levels,...
Christmas predictions: Louise Pfanner from Gleebooks in Sydney
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this final instalment...
Margery C Ramsay scholarship recipients to research VR and augmented reality in libraries
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The State Library of Victoria has awarded to 2018 Margery C Ramsay scholarship to siblings Scott Mundell, from Yarra Plenty Regional Library, and Steven Mundell, from Whitehorse Manningham Regional Library...
RiP Harriet McKnight
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Writer and editor Harriet McKnight (1988–2018) has died. She grew up in Bermagui and spent several years studying music and performing around Melbourne before deciding to return to her love...
SLQ conservator named 2018 Conservator of the Year
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
State Library of Queensland (SLQ) conservator Kelly Leahey has won the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials' (AICCM) 2018 Conservator of the Year award. Leahey, who specialises in the...
Alison Evans’ ‘Highway Bodies’
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
‘Highway Bodies is a compassionate story imbued with softness, which helps make the intense horrors and violence more digestible. Evans' second novel shares similarities with John Marsden’s 'Tomorrow' series and will be...
Saleh, Abdel-Fattah to edit anthology about growing up Arab in Australia
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Picador has announced it will publish a new anthology in 2019 about growing up Arab in Australia, to be co-edited by activist and poet Sara Saleh, and author and academic...
Book industry figures among OzCo’s arts leaders
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Several literary arts workers have been selected for the 2019 Australia Council leadership programs. Participants in the 2019 Future Leaders program include former Black Inc. marketing and publicity coordinator Christina...
Change for Souvenir Press
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Publisher: Souvenir Press Old distributor: NewSouth Books New distributor: Profile Books Changeover date: 1 January 2019 Returns cut-off: 1 February 2019
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