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WAYRBA 2018 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 7 February 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Picture books Torty and the Soldier: A Story...

Little Gods

Wednesday, 7 February 2018
A rare, original and stunning coming-of-age story resonating with echoes of Jasper Jones, Cloudstreet and Seven Little Australians. The setting is the Mallee, wide flat scrubland in north-western Victoria, country...

‘The Garret’ podcast expands in 2018

Tuesday, 6 February 2018
The Garret podcast has announced plans to expand in 2018, which includes a move away from a season-based release schedule and new episodes dedicated to reviewing Australian books. In 2018,...

Europa Editions to be distributed by NewSouth

Monday, 5 February 2018
Titles from New York-based publisher Europa Editions will be distributed in Australia by NewSouth Books from March 2018. The new sales and distribution relationship constitutes, for Europa, a ‘renewed focus...

New data shows 14.5% growth in Chinese book market in 2017

Monday, 5 February 2018
China’s retail book market expanded in 2017 at a rate of 14.55%, year on year, according to data from Chinese industry-data research firm OpenBook, reports Publishing Perspectives. Children’s books were...

FWF expands to two festivals in 2018

Monday, 5 February 2018
The Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) has announced it will expand to two festivals in 2018, with the theme ‘rewriting the story’. FWF will run its first New South Wales festival in...

ABDA launches new survey for book designers

Monday, 5 February 2018
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has launched a new survey to measure the health of the local book-design industry and generate data around the issues that book designers face....

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

Friday, 2 February 2018
Books+Publishing’s first Junior newsletter contains 12 reviews of books publishing in February and March 2018. Two books scored the maximum five-star rating: a new picture-book collaboration between Jane Godwin, Alison...

Janu wins XO Romance Prize 2017

Friday, 2 February 2018
Xoum Publishing has announced Penelope Janu as the winner of the 2017 XO Romance Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her novel ‘On the Same Page’. Janu receives a $5000...

Gui Minhai awarded 2018 IPA Prix Voltaire

Friday, 2 February 2018
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has awarded the 2018 Prix Voltaire award, which supports defenders of the freedom to publish, to missing Chinese-born Swedish publisher Gui Minhai. A Hong Kong-based publisher...

VIPs announced for 2018 SWF

Friday, 2 February 2018
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2018 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program, to be held alongside the Sydney Writers’ Festival in early May. The...

Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 winners announced

Thursday, 1 February 2018
Melbourne-based writer Sarah Krasnostein has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her first book, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster (Text Publishing)...

Clarke to present books segment on new ABC show

Thursday, 1 February 2018
Author Maxine Beneba Clarke will present a fortnightly books segment on a new ABC program hosted by journalist and commentator Stan Grant. The 45-minute program, Matter of Fact, will constitute...

ALIA members receive Australia Day 2018 honours

Wednesday, 31 January 2018
A number of ALIA members have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. Former ALIA president Margaret Allen was awarded a Public Service Medal ‘for outstanding public service to...

Will power: William Yeoman on curating PFWW 2018

Wednesday, 31 January 2018
William Yeoman is the West Australian literary editor and guest curator of the Perth Festival Writers Week (PFWW) 2018. Following the launch of the full program for this year’s festival,...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Turkish rights to the first two books in the ‘Phryne Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’ series, Cocaine Blues and Flying too High (both Kerry Greenwood); and...

Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s ‘The Lebs’

Wednesday, 31 January 2018
‘Punchbowl Boys High, often dubbed “NSW’s most troubled school”, was the subject of a 2016 autobiographical essay by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Now, that reminiscence of his alma mater has become...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Books+Publishing’s first Reviews newsletter for 2018 contains 13 reviews of books publishing in February and March. Tim Winton’s latest novel, The Shepherd’s Hut (Hamish Hamilton, March), received a five-star rating...

 

 

 

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