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Davitt Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Friday, 6 July 2018
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted works in each category are: Adult novel The...

BWF 2018 program announced

Friday, 6 July 2018
The program has been announced for the 2018 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 6-9 September. More than 200 writers will appear at the festival, including human rights barrister...

Tsiolkas announced as final judge for The Next Chapter

Friday, 6 July 2018
The Wheeler Centre has announced author Christos Tsiolkas as the final judge for its $150,000 initiative for developing writers, The Next Chapter. Tsiolkas joins previously announced judges Benjamin Law, Maxine...

Books+Publishing magazine Issue 2 2018

Thursday, 5 July 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s second issue for 2018 is out now! It features 34 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing from July to August. Reviews:  Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue,...

French book sales fell 1.6% in 2017

Thursday, 5 July 2018
French publishing sales fell in 2017 by 1.6% in value to €2.79 billion (A$4.4bn), according to figures from the French Publishers Association (Syndicat National de l’Edition, SNE), reports the Bookseller....

Creative Victoria announces VicArts recipients

Thursday, 5 July 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...

Books for Cooks change of address

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Books for Cooks has changed its address. The new shop is located at: Books for Cooks 115-121 Victoria St Queen Victoria Market Melbourne VIC 3000 The store's trading hours, phone...

Podcast spotlight: Coffee Pod|cast

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Coffee Pod|cast was established this year by Australian indie press Spineless Wonders, which publishes quality short stories, microliterature and novellas in print, digital and audio. The ethos of Spineless Wonders...

Deo wins 2018 ALS Gold Medal

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Shastra Deo’s debut poetry collection The Agonist (UQP) has won the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Deo’s collection was chosen from a shortlist of six that included Peter Carey,...

Wright awarded 2018 Magarey Medal

Cover of 'Tracker' Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Alexis Wright has won the biennial Magarey Medal for Biography for Tracker (Giramondo). Wright’s biography of Aboriginal leader, thinker and entrepreneur Tracker Tilmouth was chosen from a shortlist of five...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Sales Fiction Alex Adsett at Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold world rights to The Subjugate (Amanda Bridgeman) to Angry Robot. Allen & Unwin has sold the film option to...

UQP sells ‘The Geography of Friendship’ to UK

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Sally Piper’s The Geography of Friendship and 2014 debut novel Grace’s Table to Legend Press, in a two-book...

Stokes donates $1m to NLA for fellowships

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Outgoing council chair of the National Library of Australia (NLA) Ryan Stokes has donated $1 million to support research fellowships at the library. The $1 million gift from the Stokes...

ABA booksellers’ training

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) is holding a one-day training event for booksellers. Sessions will include: Nielsen Bookscan for book industry staff A day in the life of a publishing...

WritingWA: WA Premier’s Book Awards forum

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
WritingWA is hosting a two-day forum to provide Western Australian sector practitioners with an opportunity to discuss current trends, issues and opportunities. Included in the program is a session with...

Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature planned

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
A group of Swedish cultural figures have joined together to bestow an alternate literature award to replace this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, reports the Guardian. As previously reported, the...

Barnes & Noble fires CEO

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
US chain bookseller Barnes & Noble (B&N) has fired CEO Demos Parneros after 14 months in the role, reports Publishers Weekly. In a brief statement, the retailer said Parneros will...

Eades wins 2018 Mary Gilmore Award

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Quinn Eades has won the 2018 Mary Gilmore Award for his poetry collection Rallying (UWA Publishing). The award was presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) at its...

Walker Books Australia appoints associate art director

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Walker Books Australia is delighted to announce the appointment of award-winning illustrator and designer, Sarah Davis, as Associate Art Director. Leading the in-house design team, her mission is to help...

‘Luminescent Threads’ wins 2018 Locus Award

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has won a 2018 Locus Award for science-fiction and fantasy, announced at a ceremony in Seattle, in the US, on 23...

Gisborne bookshop for sale

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
After 11 years, Book Bonding Bookstore Gisborne, Victoria for sale. Solid loyalty base & emphasis on children's books, adult fiction and smaller array of non-fiction, PLUS very strong commercial school...

New acquisitions by Scribe Publications

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Scribe Publications has acquired rights in New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams’ The Dinosaur Artist: obsession, betrayal, and the quest for Earth's ultimate trophy. This remarkable narrative nonfiction delves into the riveting...

 

 

 

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