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Man Booker Prize 2017 shortlist announced

Thursday, 14 September 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: 4 3 2 1 (Paul Auster, Faber) History of Wolves (Emily Fridlund, Weidenfeld &...

Australian Reading Hour launched in Canberra

Thursday, 14 September 2017
The inaugural Australian Reading Hour campaign, which promotes the idea of ‘picking up a book and reading for an hour’, was launched at an event with Education and Training Minister...

Australian publishers prepare for Frankfurt

Thursday, 14 September 2017
Each year, Australian publishers big and small travel to the Frankfurt Book Fair to meet face to face with their international counterparts. To find out which Australian publishers will be...

Introducing Henry Rosenbloom

Thursday, 14 September 2017
Henry Rosenbloom is the founder and publisher of Melbourne’s Scribe Publications, which specialises in ‘narrative and literary nonfiction on important topics, and the best of local, international and translated fiction’....

‘Extinctions’ wins prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award

Thursday, 14 September 2017
Josephine Wilson has won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for her novel Extinctions, published by Western Australia–based small press UWA Publishing. The judging panel described...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold US rights to The Dark Lake and City of Stars (both Sarah Bailey) to Grand Central Publishing; and rights to The Dark Lake (Sarah Bailey) in the...

Book blogger spotlight: Libretto Reviews

Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Italian expat Erica Puggioni now lives in Brisbane, where she blogs about crime, literary fiction and fantasy at Libretto Reviews. ‘I am bilingual and so is my blog,’ says Puggioni....

UK small publishers protest Women’s Prize fees

Wednesday, 13 September 2017
In the UK, a few small publishers have protested the publisher fees charged by the Women’s Prize for Fiction, claiming the the fees are ‘extortionate’ and pose a prohibitive barrier to entry,...

Subbed In to launch three poetry titles this month

Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Sydney literary organisation Subbed In is launching its first series of books at an event in Sydney on 23 September. Subbed In has been hosting regular reading series for emerging...

RM Marketing Services returning to full-time operation

Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Rachael McDiarmid will be leaving Bloomsbury on 22 September and returning full-time to RM Marketing Services from 9 October. With 27 years' experience working with local and international publishers and...

Authors for Asylum Twitter campaign raises over $13,000

Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Australian writers have raised $13,143.84 for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) by auctioning off various items as part of the ‘Authors for Asylum’ Twitter campaign. The campaign ran from...

Savage appointed director of Writers Victoria

Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Angela Savage has been appointed director of Writers Victoria, effective from 25 September. Savage’s appointment follows the departure of Kate Larsen, who served as director since March 2013. The current acting...

Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding recipients

Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Thirty-two writers and literary organisations are among the recipients of the latest Australia Council grants round, which awarded $6.1 million to 221 projects. Grants in the literary category were worth...

Report finds bookshops contribute £1.9b to UK economy

Tuesday, 12 September 2017
In the UK, a new report commissioned by the British Booksellers Association (BA) has found that bookshops contribute an estimated £1.9bn (A$3.12bn) annually to the UK economy, support 46,000 jobs,...

Inaugural Boundless festival launches program

Tuesday, 12 September 2017
The full program has been launched for the inaugural Boundless festival for Indigenous and culturally diverse writers. Ellen van Neerven, Julie Koh, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Benjamin Law, Sarah Ayoub and...

PRH acquires new Tim Winton novel for March 2018

Monday, 11 September 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to a new Tim Winton novel, The Shepherd’s Hut, to be published in March 2018. Literary agency Jenny Darling also sold UK...

Longlist announced for Baillie Gifford Prize 2017

Monday, 11 September 2017
The longlist for the £30,000 (A$49,130) 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize, which recognises nonfiction writing by authors of any nationality, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Red Famine: Stalin’s War...