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Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Sales Fiction Curtis Brown Australia has sold the film option to The Ruin (Dervla McTiernan) to Hopscotch Features. (See news.) Fremantle Press has sold Slovenian rights to Dropping In (Geoff...

Two Canberra streets to be named after librarians

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced that two new roads in the ACT will be named after prominent Australian librarians Ena Noël OAM and Margaret Trask AM....

SLV launches public appeal for Cass collection

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
State Library Victoria (SLV) has launched a public appeal to raise $100,000 to preserve and make publicly available the Walter and Helena Cass Collection. The collection provides an insight into...

Ball departs PRH

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) announced yesterday that PRH Literary publishing director Ben Ball has departed the company, as of Tuesday, 15 May. PRH said in a statement, ‘A review...

EWF 2018 program launched

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced its 2018 program, which runs from 19-29 June in venues across Melbourne’s CBD and surrounding suburbs. Timmah Ball, Tony Birch and Neil Morris...

Adam wins 2018 New Zealand Book Award for fiction

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Wellington writer Pip Adam has won the NZ$50,000 (A$45,930) Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her novel The New Animals (Victoria University Press). Judges...

Petit wins 2018 Ondaatje Prize

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
In the UK, Paris-born Pascale Petit has won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for her poetry collection Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe Books). The annual £10,000 (A$18,070) prize is awarded for ‘a distinguished...

A&U to publish Winx book

Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Allen & Unwin will publish a book about world number one racehorse Winx in late October 2018. Gold Walkley winner Andrew Rule will author the official biography, Winx: Greatest of...

‘Voiceworks’ to expand with online component in late-2018

Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Voiceworks has announced it will begin commissioning and publishing original online content later this year. Voiceworks editor Mira Schlosberg said the new digital publishing arm will publish interactive fiction, animated comics,...

PRH acquires Sydney teenager’s debut novel

Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired Sydney teenager Vivian Pham's debut adult novel, The Coconut Children. Negotiated by Benython Oldfield from Zeitgeist Agency, the deal came after a ‘heated’ auction...

Sisters in Crime launches two new awards in 2018

Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Sisters in Crime is launching two new prizes in 2018: the Crime and Punishment Award, and the Award for Best Forensic Linguistics Story. The Crime and Punishment Award will be awarded...

Perlman to release first book for children

Monday, 14 May 2018
Elliot Perlman has written a debut children’s book, The Adventures of Catvinkle, which will be published by Random House Children’s Books in Australia in October 2018. The book centres on...

‘The Ruin’ optioned for film

Monday, 14 May 2018
Dervla McTiernan’s debut crime novel The Ruin (HarperCollins) has been optioned for film by Australian film production company Hopscotch Features. Curtis Brown agent Tara Wynne negotiated the deal directly with...

Chingonyi wins Dylan Thomas Prize 2018

Friday, 11 May 2018
In the UK, Zambian-British writer Kayo Chingonyi’s debut poetry collection Kumukanda (Chatto & Windus) has won the 2018 International Dylan Thomas Prize, worth the £30,000 (A$55,310). Translating as ‘initiation’, kumukanda is the...

Walsh announced as OzCo chair

Friday, 11 May 2018
Minister for communications and the arts Mitch Fifield has appointed Sam Walsh as the next chair of the Australia Council for the Arts, following current chair Rupert Myer. Walsh was...

‘The Dry’ nominated for 2018 Anthony Award

Friday, 11 May 2018
Jane Harper has been nominated for the 2018 Anthony Awards for her debut The Dry (Pan). The Dry was nominated in the category for best first novel, alongside the following:...

ABA Booksellers Choice Award 2018 shortlist announced

Friday, 11 May 2018
The shortlist for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers Choice Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Force of Nature (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan...

Introducing Wild Dingo Press

Thursday, 10 May 2018
Wild Dingo Press launched its list with a commissioned biography by a refugee from Afghanistan, which went on to become an Australian bestseller. Last year the press took a chance...

REAL Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Thursday, 10 May 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards—which act as shortlists for children’s choice book awards in New South Wales (KOALAs), Northern Territory (KROC Awards) and...

Australia’s ‘Next Chapter’ in diverse publishing

Wednesday, 9 May 2018
What stops publishers publishing more diversely? The reported ‘trends’ at Bologna included a continuing focus on diverse voices in children’s literature, but what about in adult titles? A new initiative...

 

 

 

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