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ANZ authors nominated for 2018 RITA Awards

Thursday, 22 March 2018
Several Australian and New Zealand authors have been nominated for the Romance Writers of America (RWA) 2018 RITA Awards for excellence in published romance novels and novellas. Avril Tremayne is...

Red Room Poetry fellowship 2018 shortlist announced

Thursday, 22 March 2018
The shortlist has been announced for the 2018 Red Room Poetry fellowship, which recognises the achievements and artistic goals of contemporary Australian poets. The 11 shortlisted poets are: Zenobia Frost...

NZ library places second in international marketing award

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
New Zealand's Invercargill City Library has placed second in the 2018 BibLibre International Marketing Award, run by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), reports Newshub. Invercargall City...

134,000 attend AWW 2018; Krasnostein tops bestsellers

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) has reported 134,000 people attended the 2018 festival, which ran from 3 to 8 March. Attendance was up slightly compared to last year’s event, which recorded...

Podcast spotlight: Astrid Edwards on The Garret

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Established in 2016, The Garret is an Australian podcast 'celebrating the best writers writing today' across a variety of genres. Each episode features interviews with writers on the craft of...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Sales Fiction Brow Books has sold UK and Commonwealth rights to Apple & Knife (Intan Paramaditha) to Harvill Secker. (See news.) Text has sold rights to the The Plotters (Un-su...

London Book Fair moves to March in 2019-2020

London book fair Wednesday, 21 March 2018
London Book Fair (LBF) will move its event to March in 2019 and 2020. The 2019 fair will run from 12 to 14 March, less than two weeks before next...

Wellcome Book Prize 2018 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
The shortlist for this year’s Wellcome Book Prize, presented for books about health, medicine and illness, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Stay with Me (Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Canongate) The...

Brow Books sells UK rights to ‘Apple and Knife’

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Brow Books has sold UK and Commonwealth rights to Sydney-based Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha’s short-fiction collection Apple and Knife to Harvill Secker, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK. Harvill Secker...

Scholastic acquires Rogers’ ‘Girltopia’

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Scholastic Australia has acquired a middle-grade fiction trilogy, 'Girltopia', written by former Hardie Grant Egmont publishing director Hilary Rogers. Book one in the trilogy, Girltopia, marks Rogers’ debut as an...

PRH acquires 13-year-old slam poet Solli Raphael’s debut

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Penguin Random House Australia’s Young Readers division has acquired 13-year-old slam poet Solli Raphael’s first book, a collection of slam poetry paired with inspirational writing techniques. Scheduled for publication on...

ALS Gold Medal 2018 longlist announced

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc (Ali Alizadeh, Giramondo) Common People (Tony Birch, UQP) A...

Wong wins Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2018

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Hong Kong-based poet Nicholas Wong has won the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘101 Taipei’. Wong’s poem was chosen for the $5000 prize from...

2018 Voss Literary Prize open for nominations

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
The Australian University Heads of English and the estate of Vivian Robert de Vaux Voss are pleased to call for nominations to the fifth annual Voss Literary Prize. The prize,...

New small publisher

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Elephant Tree Publishing is a small and independent publisher based in Canberra, Australia. We are seeking well-written fiction and nonfiction with best-seller potential and international appeal. We want to hear...

Currency Press distribution change

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Currency Press would like to announce that from 16 June 2018, its titles and those of its agencies, Nick Hern Books and Oberon Books will be distributed by Regency Media...

Shop fittings for sale

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
I have a full shop fit for sale. Can have for $1000 just needs to be removed at your expense. We need it to be removed by the 15th April...

Business for sale: Not Just Books (Burnie, Tasmania)

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Iconic Tasmanian bookshop. Stockist of art supplies, board games/puzzles, T2 tea and licensed ABC Centre. Very strong annual revenue with solid gross margin. Owners looking to retire. Simply a must-inspection...

Queenscliffe Literary Festival keynote speakers announced

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
The Queenscliffe Literary Festival, running 5–27 May 2018, is celebrating its fourth year. The festival features acclaimed and emerging Australian authors in conversation, at writing workshops and special events, across all weekends...

Pearson UK reports 21% mean gender pay gap

Tuesday, 20 March 2018
In the UK, Pearson has reported an overall median gender pay gap of 15% in 2017, and a mean gap of 21%, reports the Bookseller. Pearson’s median gender pay gap of 15%...

Perimeter Editions wins Cornish Family Book Prize

Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Melbourne publisher Perimeter Editions has won the Cornish Family Book Prize for Art and Design Publishing for To Note: Notation Across Disciplines (edited by Hannah Mathews, designed by Ziga Testen...

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 20 March 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) Common People (Tony Birch, UQP)...

HGE sells US rights to Henseleit debut

Monday, 19 March 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold US rights to debut author Jack Henseleit’s middle grade fiction books The Witching Hours: The Vampire Knife and its sequel, The Troll Heart, to Little, Brown...

 

 

 

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