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Giramondo acquires McGregor’s ‘photoessay memoir’ on ‘Indelible Ink’

Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Giramondo has acquired world rights to a ‘photoessay memoir’ called A Novel Idea by Sydney author and performance artist Fiona McGregor, via Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary Agency. A...

Drinks and networking event: Junior and young people in publishing

Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Junior and young people in publishing are invited to an evening for drinks and networking, supported by the Australian Publishers Association. This evening is designed to change that and create...

Text dominates shortlist for 2018 CHASS Australia Book Prize

Wednesday, 26 September 2018
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Australia Book Prize, with Text Publishing responsible for all three shortlisted titles. The...

A&U acquires ANZ rights to ‘Four Dead Queens’

Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to YA fantasy novel Four Dead Queens by Australian author Astrid Scholte. A&U will publish simultaneously with the United States, where Four Dead...

Editors NSW: The business of being a freelance editor

Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Editors NSW is presenting a workshop on the business of being a freelance editor with Rhonda Daniels, owner of freelance editing business Right with Rhonda. Sessions include: Knowing the numbers: understanding income,...

Horne Prize backflips on rule change, Marr and Funder quit as judges

Tuesday, 25 September 2018
The Saturday Paper and Aesop have removed a controversial rule change to the Horne Prize, acknowledging that the changes ‘were restrictive and should not have been included’. As a result...

UK children’s book market reports growth; YA down 22%, children’s nonfiction up 10.2%

Tuesday, 25 September 2018
In the UK, the children's book market has reported steady growth between August 2017 and August 2018, reports the Bookseller. The children's market has shown overall growth of 0.7% by...

Third O’Neill title sold to UK’s Lightning Books

Tuesday, 25 September 2018
UK publisher Lightning Books has acquired UK and Commonwealth (excluding ANZ) rights to Ryan O’Neill’s 2012 debut short story collection The Weight of a Human Heart, reports Book Brunch. Lightning...

Recipients of CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants announced

Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) have announced the four recipients of the 2018 CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants, each worth NZ$5000 (A$4590). The winner...

Kuala Lumpur named World Book Capital for 2020

Monday, 24 September 2018
Kuala Lumpur (KL) has been named as the UNESCO World Book Capital (WBC) for 2020. The city was selected due to its 'strong focus on inclusive education' and emphasis on 'accessible...

Funder quits as judge for Horne Prize

Monday, 24 September 2018
Author Anna Funder has quit the judging panel for the Horne Prize, after a rule change about which judges were not consulted, reports the Australian. Prize organisers made changes to...

Booktopia wins people’s choice award at Telstra Business Awards

Monday, 24 September 2018
Online bookseller Booktopia has won the people’s choice award at the national finals of the Telstra Business Awards. Announced at an awards dinner on 20 September, the national award win...

Spinifex encourages readers to celebrate International Bibliodiversity Day

Friday, 21 September 2018
Spinifex Press is encouraging readers to buy a book that has been published by an independent publisher and sold by an independent bookseller to celebrate International Bibliodiversity Day on 21...

Leading Edge restructures, Marinov departs

Friday, 21 September 2018
Leading Edge Group has restructured its business and Leading Edge Books national group manager Galina Marinov has been made redundant. Leading Edge has dissolved its group teams, including the books...

Educational Publishing Awards 2018 winners announced

Friday, 21 September 2018
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2018 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). Promoting Literacy Development was named Primary Publisher of the Year and Oxford University...

Man Booker Prize 2018 shortlist announced

Friday, 21 September 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Milkman (Anna Burns, Faber) Washington Black (Esi Edugyan, Serpent’s Tail) Everything Under (Daisy Johnson, Jonathan Cape) The...

Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2018 shortlist announced

Friday, 21 September 2018
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Amid fear and guns, polio finds a refuge’ (Jo Chandler, Undark)...

Lester shortlisted for Melbourne Prize for Literature

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Prolific children’s author and former Australian Children’s Laureate Alison Lester has been shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature. The award is presented triennially to a Victorian author whose body...

Introducing CSIRO Publishing’s children’s list

Thursday, 20 September 2018
In 2015 CSIRO Publishing launched its first children’s book Phasmid, the story of the rediscovery of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect previously believed to be extinct. The publisher has...

‘Alpacas with Maracas’ tops Australian picture book bestsellers chart

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Australian picture book bestsellers: August Alpacas with Maracas, the follow-up to Matt Cosgrove’s bestselling Macca the Alpaca, is at the top of the Australian picture book bestsellers chart for August....

Children’s, parenting titles popular at Beijing Book Fair

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Australian publishers who attended the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) in August have reported an interest in children’s, parenting and education titles. Ventura Press director Jane Curry sold the rights...

‘Room on Our Rock’ sold into multiple territories

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Scholastic Australia has sold US, Japanese, German, French, Brazilian and Turkish rights to the picture book Room on Our Rock (Kate & Jol Temple, illus by Terri Rose Baynton). Exploring...

Annual funding for Icelandic publishers may lead to drop in book prices

Thursday, 20 September 2018
The Icelandic government has announced ISK 400 million (A$4.9m) in annual grant funding for book publishers as part of a plan to promote the Icelandic language, reports Iceland Review. Beginning...

‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Synchronicity Films will adapt Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo) as a television drama miniseries. The project is currently in development, with Australian writer-producer Jacquelin Perske to adapt Morris’...