Podcast spotlight: The Rereaders Archive
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Established in 2011, The Rereaders is a fortnightly literary and cultural podcast that has been described as Melbourne's answer to the Slate Culture Gabfest. Each episode is hosted by culture...
Murphy awarded F A Sharr Award Archive
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Curtin University librarian Claire Murphy is the recipient of this year’s F A Sharr Award for exhibiting ‘the most potential to make a significant contribution to the library profession in...
Lewis named ALIA fellow Archive
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
The Australia Library and Information Association (ALIA) has presented an ALIA fellowship to Suzanne Lewis for her work in the field of health librarianship, as well as her position as...
Self-published debut novel sold to UK small press Splice Archive
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Brisbane author Nicholas John Turner’s debut self-published novel Hang Him When He Is Not There has sold into the UK and Ireland to Birmingham-based small press Splice. UK and Irish...
UK banker offers novelists £24k salary as part of publishing start-up Archive
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
A new publishing start-up has launched in the UK, claiming to offer aspiring novelists a salary from £2000 (A$3540) per month to write, as an alternative to traditional publishing, reports...
Finalists for Walkley-Pascall, arts journalism awards announced Archive
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2018 Walkley-Pascall Award for arts criticism and for the Arts Journalism Award. The finalists for the Walkley-Pascall Award for arts criticism...
New children’s press Yellow Brick Books releases first title Archive
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
A new small publisher focused on children’s books has recently released its first title, amid plans to release two more books in 2018. In May this year, Yellow Brick Books...
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018 entries now open Archive
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Visit www.melbourneprize.org to enter the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018 & Awards. New online entry form. Publishers can nominate authors. $100,000 prize pool plus a new award for early career published writers...
Pascal Press Stocktake Week 2018 Archive
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Please note that our annual Stocktake is scheduled to commence Wednesday 13th June to Wednesday 20th June 2018. As such, the last dispatch of orders will be Tuesday 12th June....
Readings YA Prize 2018 shortlist announced Archive
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Readings Young Adult Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Small Spaces (Sarah Epstein, Walker Books) Amelia Westlake (Erin Gough, Hardie Grant Egmont) Between...
Bloomsbury reports best financial performance since founding in 1980s Archive
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Bloomsbury Publishing has reported a 13% surge in total revenues to £161.5 million (A$284.9m) in 2017, its best performance since it was founded in 1986, reports the Guardian. The publisher's global...
Alice appointed director of Writers SA Archive
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Writers SA has announced editor and festival programmer Jessica Alice as the organisation's new director. Alice, who commences the position on 2 July, takes over from outgoing director Sarah Tooth...
Australian Book Design Awards 2018 winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners of the 2018 Australian Book Design Awards at an event in Melbourne on 25 May. The winning titles in each category...
Melbourne Prize announces new $7500 award for early-career published authors Archive
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
The Melbourne Prize Trust has announced a new award for early-career authors, worth $7500. The Readings Residency Award is open to early-career published authors who are based in Victoria, writing...
Three local writers shortlisted for Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018 Archive
Monday, 28 May 2018
Two Australians and one New Zealand writer are among the 24 shortlisted finalists for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Poet Chris Mansell was shortlisted for her story ‘Nobody’s Wife’,...
‘300 Minutes of Danger’ adapted for VR project Archive
Monday, 28 May 2018
A virtual reality (VR) project based on Jack Heath’s book of short stories 300 Minutes of Danger (Scholastic) is one of four online projects to receive production funding from Screen...
Golden Man Booker shortlist announced Archive
Monday, 28 May 2018
The Booker Prize Foundation has announced the shortlist of its Golden Man Booker Prize, a special one-off award to mark the 50th anniversary of the prize. The shortlisted titles, which...
Schultz takes on publisher role at ‘Griffith Review’; Hay becomes editor Archive
Monday, 28 May 2018
Griffith Review has announced that editor Julianne Schultz will take on the role of publisher at the quarterly publication, alongside a position as Professor of Media and Culture at Griffith...
UK Booksellers Association to tackle diversity with £50k worth of grants Archive
Friday, 25 May 2018
In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) has announced several measures to improve diversity in bookselling, including providing £50,000 (A$66,910) worth of grants to bookshops, reports the Bookseller. The trade...
Territory Read Book of the Year 2018 shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 25 May 2018
The Northern Territory Writers’ Centre has announced the shortlist for the Territory Read Book of the Year awards. The shortlisted titles are: There’s a Crocodile on the Golf Course (Rachel...
Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced Archive
Friday, 25 May 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards, for writing first published online or electronically, have been announced. Nonfiction Seeing Through Perspective: A Blind Tourist’s Guide to Art (Ria...
Peter Carey Short Story Award 2018 shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 25 May 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Peter Carey Short Story Award has been announced. The six shortlisted stories are: ‘Clearing’ (Alice Bishop) ‘Fighting Season’ (Alison Martin) ‘Being The Mother’ (Anne Casey)...
Transit Lounge acquires Pajalic family memoir on mental illness Archive
Friday, 25 May 2018
Transit Lounge has acquired Amra Pajalic’s memoir, Things Nobody Knows But Me. Transit Lounge publisher Barry Scott told Books+Publishing the ‘beautifully written’ memoir was ‘a tender, funny and searingly honest story of...
Audible partners with Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Archive
Thursday, 24 May 2018
In the US, Audible has announced a partnership with Hello Sunshine, the cross-platform media brand founded by Reese Witherspoon that is dedicated to producing female-driven content, reports Publishers Weekly. Reese’s...
ASA launches podcast on ‘entrepreneurial’ creatives Archive
Thursday, 24 May 2018
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a new podcast series focusing on ‘the numerous ways wordsmiths can adapt their talents beyond the confines of a book’. Called Words...
New small publisher Elephant Tree Publishing launches first title Archive
Thursday, 24 May 2018
A new Canberra-based small publisher of fiction, nonfiction and young adult fiction has recently released its first title. Mother-and-daughter team Jennifer Brown-Leslie and Kathryn Spurling have established Elephant Tree Publishing...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2018 longlist announced Archive
Thursday, 24 May 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Ngaio Marsh award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted works are: Marlborough Man (Alan Carter, Fremantle Press) Baby (Annaleese Jochems, VUP) See...
Fine shortlisted for Orwell Prize 2018 Archive
Thursday, 24 May 2018
University of Melbourne academic and author Cordelia Fine has been shortlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize for Books, for her book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds (Icon...
Simon & Schuster Australia distributes Rockpool Archive
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Publisher: Rockpool Publishing ISBN prefix: 978-1-921295; 978-1-921878; 978-1-925017; 978-0-9923070; 978-1-925429; 978-1-925564; 978-1-925682 Old distributor: Herron Books New distributor: Simon & Schuster Changeover date: 1 September 2018 Returns cut-off: 30 November 2018 Contact...
Podcast spotlight: Audacious Archive
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
First established in 2015, Audacious is the audio-journal of arts organisation Melbourne Spoken Word (MSW). Each 'issue' of the paid-for audio-journal is produced as a quarterly album of spoken-word performances. A...
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