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CBCA NSW Branch Aspiring Writers Mentorship Program

Wednesday, 2 May 2018
The CBCA NSW Branch Inc 2018 Aspiring Writers Mentorship Program is currently receiving manuscripts! This program aims to foster the talent of aspiring writers of children’s literature across Australia, and...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Lex Hirst

Wednesday, 2 May 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner’s announcement...

O’Connell wins 2018 Wellcome Book Prize

Tuesday, 1 May 2018
Irish author Mark O’Connell has won the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize for his debut To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Shalini Kunahlan

Tuesday, 1 May 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner’s announcement...

Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2018 winners announced

Monday, 30 April 2018
In the US, the Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Cate Blake

Monday, 30 April 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards' (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner's announcement...

ALS Gold Medal 2018 shortlist announced

Monday, 30 April 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: A Long Way from Home (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) The Agonist (Shastra...

Norma K Hemming Award 2018 shortlists announced

Monday, 30 April 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Norma K Hemming Award have been announced. The award is presented by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation for a work of speculative fiction published in...

The Nowhere Child (Christian White, Affirm Press)

Friday, 27 April 2018
Sammy Went was a toddler when she disappeared from her home in Kentucky 28 years ago. Kim Leamy is an Australian photography teacher living a fairly unremarkable life until a...

Waterstones sold to hedge fund Elliott Advisors

Friday, 27 April 2018
British bookstore chain Waterstones has been sold to hedge fund Elliott Advisors for an undisclosed amount, reports the Bookseller. Following exclusive talks that began in January 2018, Elliott Advisors bought...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Patrizia di Biase-Dyson

Friday, 27 April 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards' (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner's announcement...

Kenwood wins 2018 Text Prize

Friday, 27 April 2018
Melbourne-based writer Nina Kenwood has won the 2018 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for her YA manuscript 'It Sounded Better in My Head'. The ‘tender, funny and joyful...

Podcast spotlight: The Morning Bell

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Established in 2014, the Morning Bell is a literary podcast recorded live at the Brunswick Street Bookstore every second Wednesday. For each episode, a guest joins host Joel Martin and co-hosts...

ALIA board election results announced

Thursday, 26 April 2018
The results of the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) 2018 board election have been announced. Helen Ebsworth and Paula Kelly Paull have been elected as directors and will take...

RiP Beverly Farmer

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Australian writer and essayist Beverly Farmer has died, aged 77. Farmer, who won the Patrick White award—traditionally awarded to authors who ‘have made a significant but inadequately recognised contribution to...

Rights round-up

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Sales Fiction Author Ryan O'Neill has directly sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to The Drover's Wives to Lightning Books. (See news.) Children’s Berbay Publishing has sold German rights...

black&write! Writing Fellowship 2018 winners announced

Thursday, 26 April 2018
The 2018 black&write! Fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Gold Coast writer Lystra Bisschop and Sydney-based writer Nardi Simpson. Bisschop, a descendant of the...

Nasrallah wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Jordanian-Palestinian author Ibrahim Nasrallah has won the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel The Second War of the Dog (Arab Scientific Publishers). The Second War of...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Ali Hammond

Thursday, 26 April 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards' (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner's announcement...

O’Neill’s forthcoming ‘Drover’s Wives’ sold to UK

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Prime Minister’s Literary Award-winner Ryan O’Neill has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to his Henry Lawson-inspired short-story collection, The Drover’s Wives, to UK publisher Lightning...

Edinburgh Exchange recipients announced

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Creative Victoria has announced the recipients of the Edinburgh Exchange, an exchange program between the Melbourne and Edinburgh Cities of Literature. The six Victorian delegates are: Marian Blythe (Homecooked Comics...