‘On the Java Ridge’ wins 2018 Colin Roderick Award
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Jock Serong’s On the Java Ridge (Text) has won the 2018 Colin Roderick Award and the HT Priestley Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook...
YABBAs 2018 winners announced
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
The winners of the 2018 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Do Not Open This Book Again!...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 4 2018
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s fourth—and final—issue for 2018 is out now! It features 30 reviews of forthcoming adult and children’s books due to be published between December 2018 and March 2019. Reviews: Of the 17 adult...
Yahoo Creek (Tohby Riddle, A&U)
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
In this imaginative work, Tohby Riddle delves into the mystery of the yahoo (or the yowie, as it is commonly known today). Reported sightings of these large, hairy beasts were...
47 Degrees (Justin D’Ath, Puffin)
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Author Justin D’Ath lost his home in Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires, and the story of that harrowing day forms the basis for his new novel, 47 Degrees. The morning of...
Reversing the cultural cringe: Martin Hughes on publishing debut fiction
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Publishing debut fiction in Australia is worth the risk, argues Affirm Press publisher Martin Hughes. Can anyone remember a year that has delivered so sweetly for Australian debut novels? Not...
Sister act: The story of The Dorothy Butler Children’s Bookshop
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Co-owner Mary Wadsworth tells the story of The Dorothy Butler Children’s Bookshop in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1965 Dorothy Butler established the bookshop that my sister Helen and I now...
Brennan wins CHASS Australia Book Prize 2018 for ‘A Writing Life’
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Bernadette Brennan has won the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences’ (CHASS) 2018 Australia Book Prize, for her book A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work (Text)....
Melbourne City of Lit announces 10th anniversary event program
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
The Melbourne City of Literature, in partnership with the Wheeler Centre, has announced the program for its 10th anniversary event, based on the idea of a parliament for the city....
Kirkus Prize 2018 winners announced
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
US publication Kirkus Reviews has announced the winners of its fifth annual literary prize. Each of the Kirkus Prize winners receives US$50,000 (A$70,830). Ling Ma won the fiction prize for Severance (Text), with...
Samuel Wagan Watson wins 2018 Patrick White Literary Award
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Poet, essayist, scriptwriter and performer Samuel Wagan Watson has been named the winner of the $20,000 Patrick White Literary Award for 2018. The annual award was established by Patrick White...
Shortlist announced for 2018 Diagram Prize for oddest book title
Monday, 29 October 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, presented by the Bookseller, has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Are Gay Men More...
Creative Victoria announces VicArts recipients
Monday, 29 October 2018
Several literary projects and writers have been included among the recipients in the latest round of Creative Victoria’s VicArts Grants. The program will provide over $1.5 million in funding for...
Writers Victoria announces Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients
Monday, 29 October 2018
Writers Victoria has announced the third round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. Nine successful writers, illustrators and translators were selected from 112 applicants to receive a...
Benyamin wins inaugural JCB Prize for Literature
Friday, 26 October 2018
Novelist and short story writer Benyamin has won the inaugural JCB prize for Literature in India. Benyamin won Rs 25 lakhs (A$48,220) for his book Jasmine Days (Juggernaut Books), translated into...
Parliament fast-tracks 5% tax cut for small to medium-sized enterprises
Friday, 26 October 2018
The federal government has passed updated legislation to reduce taxes for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from 30% to 25% over a three-year period, reports MyBusiness. The Morrison government has...
McTiernan shortlisted for 2018 Irish Book Awards
Friday, 26 October 2018
Perth-based author Dervla McTiernan has been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. McTiernan’s debut, The Ruin (HarperCollins), was one of six shortlisted titles in the category for Irish Independent Crime Fiction...
Subbed In announces six winners of 2018 Chapbook Prize
Friday, 26 October 2018
Subbed In has announced six winners of its 2018 Chapbook Prize. The winning entries, chosen from a shortlist of 14, will be published by Subbed In. They are: When I...
UK Dagger awards 2018 winners announced
Friday, 26 October 2018
The UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the winners of the 2018 Dagger awards. The winners in each category are: Diamond Dagger (for an author whose crime writing careers...
Creative Vic announces Creators Fund grant recipients
Friday, 26 October 2018
Creative Victoria has announced the second-round recipients of the Creators Fund program, who will share in $900,000 worth of funding. Among the 24 recipients are: Sarah Firth ($30,000) for a...
Bookshops prepare for NZ Bookshop Day
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Booksellers NZ's fourth annual NZ Bookshop Day will be held on Saturday, 27 October, with bookshops around the country hosting events and promotions. To mark 10 years of Nielsen operating...
Book sales in Iceland dropped 43% from 2010 to 2017
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Book sales in Iceland dropped 43% between 2010 and 2017, with sales from the first four months of 2018 dropping a further 5% from the same period in 2017, reports...
Fremantle sells world English rights to Sally Morgan board book ‘I Love Me’
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Fremantle Press has sold world English-language rights to Sally Morgan’s board book I Love Me (illus by Ambelin Kwaymullina) to Andrews McMeel Publishing, part of Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU), in...
Podcast spotlight: Hope Book Club
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Launched in 2018, the Hope Book Club is a podcast focusing on books that will 'enrich your life'. Co-hosts Katrina Roe and Natasha Moore discuss what they've been reading and...
Brad Cooper’s ‘The Finest Gold’
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
'While The Finest Gold is ostensibly a sporting memoir—and it does cover in fascinating detail the punishing regimes and mental requirements for success—its real charm lies in Cooper’s dazzling, shimmering...
SLWA releases 2018-2022 strategic plan
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
The State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) has released its strategic plan for 2018-2022. The key objectives of the strategic plan include: to embrace digital transformation by creating easier access...
Canadian partnership to enhance First Nations library services
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
In the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, a new partnership is aiming to increase library resources on First Nations reserves, reports the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Currently, out of 306 public...
State Library NSW seeks UNESCO listing for Unaipon manuscript
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) will display a manuscript by Indigenous writer, inventor and polymath David Unaipon and is preparing a case for it to be given UNESCO heritage...
Title showcase: ‘La Cherisseure’ by Jude Westrup
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Title: La CherisseureAuthor: Jude WestrupPublisher: Self-publishedPrice: 22.5ISBN: 978-0-646-99209-9Distributor: Currently via: judedesigns950@gmail.com Go(o)d is La Cherisseure: S/he is breathing within us; breathing through and around us; perceivable with our inner eyes...
Bilingual children’s book ‘My Two Blankets’ to launch in Melbourne on 25 October
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Three new bilingual editions of My Two Blankets (Irena Kolbald, illus by Freya Blackwood)—in Arabic, Farsi and Dari, and all with English—will be launched at Readings Carlton as part of National...
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