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ACT Book of the Year 2017 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 ACT Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fighting Fit (Laura Dawes, Orion) Maps of Small Countries (Russell Erwin, Ginninderra...

Stella Prize launches Read Up resource

Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The Stella Prize has launched a series of reading lists for young people aged 15-24 ‘to help guide their thinking about sexuality, relationships, gender, minds and bodies, and diverse cultures’....

‘The Story of a Brief Marriage’ wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Anuk Arudpragasam has won the US$25,000 (A$33,110) DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage (Granta), reports the Guardian. Arudpragasam’s novel is...

France wins 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for ‘How to Survive a Plague’

Monday, 20 November 2017
David France has won the £30,000 (A$50,812) Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction writing for his account of the AIDS epidemic How to Survive a Plague (Picador), reports the Bookseller. France was chosen...

Horne Prize 2017 shortlist announced

Monday, 20 November 2017
The Saturday Paper and cosmetics company Aesop have announced the shortlist for the $15,000 Horne Prize for narrative nonfiction. The shortlisted writers are: Alice Bishop for ‘Coppering’, ‘on renewal of...

Spain to be guest of honour at 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair

Monday, 20 November 2017
Spain will be the guest of honour at the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) 30 years after it first appeared as a guest of honour, reports Publishing Perspectives. FBF director...

Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Awards 2017 winners announced

Monday, 20 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Scarlet Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime, have been announced. New South Wales writer Rowena Harding-Smith won the $1500 first prize for her short...

‘The Invisible War’ wins the 2017 Most Underrated Book Award

Friday, 17 November 2017
The graphic novel The Invisible War by Ailsa Wild, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti, Ben Hutchings and Jeremy Barr (Scale Free Network) has won the Small Press Network’s Most Underrated Book...

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017 shortlists announced

Friday, 17 November 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette) The Last Days...

‘Tincture’ literary journal to close

Friday, 17 November 2017
Australian online literary journal Tincture has announced that it will close at the end of the year. The quarterly journal was established in 2013 and has featured fiction, poetry and...

Hachette acquires ‘The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village’ in two-book deal

Friday, 17 November 2017
Hachette has acquired world rights to debut author Joanna Nell’s The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village in a two-book deal negotiated by Haylee Nash at The Nash Agency. The...

National Book Awards 2017 winners announced

Friday, 17 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 US National Book Awards have been announced. Jesmyn Ward has won the fiction award for the second time for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing (Bloomsbury),...

Kroetsch to step down as AWW director

Friday, 17 November 2017
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) director Laura Kroetsch will step down from the role after the 2018 festival, which runs from 3-8 March. Kroetsch was appointed in 2010 to direct the...

‘The Town’ sold to US, European territories

Friday, 17 November 2017
Faber has sold the rights to Shaun Prescott’s novel The Town, published in Australia by Brow Books, into the US and several European territories. The novel has been sold to...

Bonnier closes UK self-publishing platform Type & Tell

Friday, 17 November 2017
In the UK, Bonnier has closed its self-publishing platform Type & Tell eight months after it was launched, reports the Bookseller. According to the Bookseller, around 500 UK users were...

‘Overland’ Fair Australia Prize 2017 shortlists announced

Friday, 17 November 2017
Literary journal Overland has announced the shortlists for this year’s Fair Australia Prize. Shortlists have been released for the Essay Prize, Fiction Prize, Poetry Prize, and Cartoons and Illustrations Prize....

Introducing Scale Free Network

Thursday, 16 November 2017
Melbourne-based ‘art-science collaborative’ Scale Free Network publishes unique picture books and graphic novels ‘inspired by the microscopic world’. Co-founder Gregory Crocetti spoke to Think Australian: Describe your company in under...

‘The 91-Storey Treehouse’ tops children’s fiction bestsellers chart

Thursday, 16 November 2017
The latest instalments in several bestselling Australian junior-fiction series have made it into the Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart for October, including Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s The 91-Storey Treehouse,...