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Calling emerging children’s authors and illustrators

Wednesday, 6 September 2017
The May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust is delighted to announce: The Ian Wilson Memorial Fellowship This fellowship will give an emerging author or illustrator creative time in the Trust’s Adelaide...

Bloomsbury Academic

Wednesday, 6 September 2017
As of 1 October 2017, sales of Bloomsbury Academic titles into bookshops, educational and library supplier will be resumed by the Allen & Unwin sales team. This includes imprints Bloomsbury...

Book blogger spotlight: Children’s Books Daily

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Queensland-based blogger and teacher-librarian Megan Daley has a longstanding involvement with children’s and YA literature, which gives her blog a unique viewpoint. ‘I feel like I’ve been wandering around the...

Text acquires Wakefield’s ‘Youth’

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Text has acquired world rights to a new YA novel by Friday Brown and Ballad for a Mad Girl author Vikki Wakefield. Youth is a story about breaking the cycle...

Queensland Literary Awards 2017 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Birdman’s Wife (Melissa Ashley, Affirm Press) Vancouver (Nick Earls, Inkerman...

Industry prepares for Indigenous Literacy Day tomorrow

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
The 11th Indigenous Literacy Day will take place around Australia on Wednesday 6 September. This year the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is hoping to raise $200,000 to help buy 20,000...

Marsh named NZ Poet Laureate

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
The National Library of New Zealand has named Selina Tusitala Marsh as the 2017-19 New Zealand Poet Laureate. Marsh, the author of three poetry collections and a lecturer at the...

CHASS Australia Book Prize 2017 longlist announced

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the longlist for the 2017 Australia Book Prize. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia...

Era launches ‘WINGS’ children’s book series in China

Monday, 4 September 2017
South Australia-based publisher Era Publications has partnered with Chinese publisher New Century Publishing to publish 1.7 million copies of its ‘WINGS’ children’s reader series in China. Launched at the Beijing...

Canongate profit up 7.6% in 2016

Monday, 4 September 2017
UK publisher Canongate has revealed a profit increase of 7.6% to £128,506 (A$209,050) for the year ending December 2016, reports the Bookseller. Overall turnover for the publisher rose about one...

McKinty, Harper win 2017 Ned Kelly Awards

Monday, 4 September 2017
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The best fiction award was presented to Adrian McKinty for...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

Friday, 1 September 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 11 reviews of books publishing in October and November. Gabriella Coslovich’s investigation of an alleged art fraud in Australia, Whiteley on Trial (MUP, October), received...

Myer to stock Amazon Kindle

Friday, 1 September 2017
Myer will stock Amazon Kindle devices and accessories in its stores and online as part of a new partnership, reports Inside Retail. ‘We are thrilled to announce our program with...

Page wins 2017 ACU Poetry Prize

Friday, 1 September 2017
Poet Geoff Page has won the 2017 ACU Poetry Prize, worth $10,000, for his poem ‘Charles S. Ryan to Alice E. Sumner’.  Judge Chris Wallace-Crabbe said Page’s winning poem, which...

A fine art: Gabriella Coslovich on ‘Whiteley on Trial’

Thursday, 31 August 2017
Arts journalist Gabriella Coslovich’s Whiteley on Trial (MUP, October) investigates the twists and turns in the biggest case of alleged art fraud the Australian criminal justice system has seen. ‘The...

Avid Reader launches ‘Avid Kitchen + Garden’

Thursday, 31 August 2017
Brisbane bookstore Avid Reader is relaunching its café and courtyard space under the new name Avid Kitchen + Garden. The West End bookstore has hired new management to take over...

Whiteley on Trial (Gabriella Coslovich, MUP)

Wednesday, 30 August 2017
From the dramatis personae of the opening pages—the Suspect Paintings, the Authentic Painting and the Individuals—I was taken by this story of true crime and courtroom drama. Who would want...

 

 

 

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