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No ‘Daily’ on Monday

Friday, 8 June 2018
Please note that, due to the Queen’s Birthday holiday on Monday in all states except Queensland and Western Australia, the next Daily newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 12 June.

Shamsie wins 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Thursday, 7 June 2018
British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Home Fire (Bloomsbury). Home Fire, which reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of...

Brio launches Fantastica Prize for sci-fi manuscripts

Thursday, 7 June 2018
Brio Books has launched the Fantastica Prize, an unpublished manuscript prize for local science-fiction. Open to Australian and New Zealand writers, the prize is seeking submissions of science-fiction manuscripts of...

Barrett joins Pantera Press

Thursday, 7 June 2018
Bloomsbury Australia sales director Lucy Barrett will join Pantera Press in the newly created role of chief operating officer. ‘Lucy has a proven track record of growing sales and her...

Podcast spotlight: Pratchat

Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Pratchat is a monthly 'book club' podcast hosted by Elizabeth Flux and Ben McKenzie that aims to discuss every Terry Pratchett novel ever written. Each episode, Flux and McKenzie are joined...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold world French rights to The World Beneath the Trees (Karen Viggers) to Les Escales. (See news.) Text has sold ANZ audio rights...

Noosa Heritage Library wins Heritage Award

Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Noosa Shire Council’s Heritage Library has won a Silver Award at the National Trust of Australia (Queensland) Heritage Awards for publishing local history book Noosa Remembers: A History of World...

Lambda Literary Awards 2018 winners announced

Wednesday, 6 June 2018
The winners of the 2018 Lambda Literary Awards, known as the ‘Lammys’, have been announced. The awards celebrate excellence in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) writing published in the...

NSW Writers’ Centre rebrands as Writing NSW

Wednesday, 6 June 2018
The NSW Writers’ Centre has rebranded as Writing NSW, and launched a new website. Writing NSW CEO Jane McCredie  said the new name, which came into effect on 29 May,...

Davitt Awards 2018 longlists announced

Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the longlists for the 2018 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. A total of 101 titles have been longlisted, including...

Change for Lion Hudson

Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Publisher: Lion Hudson Old distributor: NewSouth Books New distributor: N/A Changeover date: 1 July 2018 Returns cut-off: 1 August 2018

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Please note that, due to the Queen’s Birthday holiday on Monday in all states except Queensland and Western Australia, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 14 June. The deadline...

BookNet at the 2018 ABA conference

Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Come and visit our stand at the Trade Show of the 2018 ABA Conference at the QT Hotel Canberra on Sunday, 17 June 2018. We will be attending the ABA...

Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Covers of Kibble Literary Awards 2018 shortlisted titles Tuesday, 5 June 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Kibble and Dobbie Awards have been announced. The four shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for an established Australian female author are: The...

Audie Awards 2018 winners announced

Tuesday, 5 June 2018
In the US, the winners of the 2018 Audie Awards, presented by the Audio Publishers Association, have been announced. The Audiobook of the Year award went to Lincoln in the...

PRH acquires Warne memoir

Tuesday, 5 June 2018
Penguin Random House will publish Australian cricketer Shane Warne’s memoir, No Spin (with Mark Nicholas), in Australia and the UK in October 2018. In a statement, the publisher said the...

NT Writers’ Centre elects new board

Monday, 4 June 2018
The Northern Territory Writers’ Centre has elected a new board, consisting of 10 members. Previous vice president Adelle Sefton-Rowston has been elected as president, while returning board members have been...

Amazon to block Oz shoppers from Amazon US

Friday, 1 June 2018
Australian consumers will be unable to purchase items from Amazon’s international websites as the multinational moves to comply with new GST laws affecting online retailers, reports the Sydney Morning Herald....

Scribe acquires new books by Elson, Carroll

Friday, 1 June 2018
Scribe has acquired rights to a number of new titles, including a biography of post-punk musician Rowland S Howard by Melbourne-based bookseller and writer Gerard Elson. Titled Something Flammable: Approaching...

 

 

 

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