Carmine wins inaugural ‘KYD’ unpublished manuscript award
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Onyx B Carmine (S J Norman) as the winner of its inaugural unpublished manuscript award for their short story collection ‘Permafrost’. Carmine...
‘Horrid Henry’ artist named UK libraries’ most borrowed illustrator
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
In the UK, ‘Horrid Henry’ artist Tony Ross has been named as UK libraries’ most borrowed illustrator according to Public Lending Rights data, in the first ranking of its kind,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Sales Fiction—Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold the screen option to ‘The Territory’ trilogy (Justin Woolley) to Dana-Lee Mierowsky Bennett (see news). Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Portuguese translation rights in...
News Corp survey finds majority of children six-to-12 are library members
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
News Corp Australia’s Great Australian Reading Survey, conducted in June, found that about three-quarters of children aged six to 12 and almost half of under five-year-olds are card-carrying members of...
Book blogger spotlight: My Cup and Chaucer
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Tonile Wortley started a crime fiction blog in 2011, but she now blogs about a broader selection of adult fiction at My Cup and Chaucer. Her day job—digital and community...
Australian author’s fairytale retelling acquired by Hodder & Stoughton
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Canberra-based author Leife Shallcross’ novel The Beast’s Heart has been acquired by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK. The Beast’s Heart is a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairytale...
Text announces new NZ literary prize for an unpublished novel
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Text Publishing has announced the Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel, a new literary prize for New Zealand writers worth NZ$10,000. The winner will also receive a contract for...
Melbourne Writers Festival 2017 program launched
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
The program for the 2017 Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 25 August to 3 September, has been announced. Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Kim Scott will launch the festival...
World Book Day event boosts sales in the UK
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
In the UK, World Book Day (WBD) titles sales have risen by more than 50% compared to the previous year, with 469,274 copies sold in the week of the event,...
PRH announces new $20,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced a new literary prize for an unpublished manuscript, worth $20,000, to mark the formation of the publisher’s new literary division. The Penguin Random...
Educational Publishing Awards 2017 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2017 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. The shortlists in each category are: Primary Student Resource—Mathematics (Numeracy) Oxford Maths Student and...
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $1.3m funding grants
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Fifty-six projects have received a total of $1.3m from the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Funding recipients in the various categories include: Children’s literature Children’s...
Inaugural crime writers festival to be held in Sydney
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
A new writers festival celebrating the crime genre will be held in Sydney from 2-3 September 2017. The two-day festival, BAD, is founded by academic Denis Tracey and writer Michael...
Writers on Writers: On John Marsden | On Kate Jennings (Alice Pung | Erik Jensen, Black Inc.)
Monday, 17 July 2017
Australian writers are being honoured in a new essay series called ‘Writers on Writers’, published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and the State Library of...
Danny Blue’s Really Excellent Dream (Max Landrak, Lothian)
Monday, 17 July 2017
Max Landrak’s first children’s book is a delight. A fanciful tale of a boy who unexpectedly dreams of ‘not-blue’ in a world that consists only of blue, it functions equally...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 3 2017
Monday, 17 July 2017
Issue 3 of Books+Publishing magazine is out now! Reviews: Plenty of forthcoming Christmas highlights are among the 13 adult books reviewed in this issue, with Sofie Laguna’s The Choke (A&U, September), the...
Digital driver: Joel Naoum shares his career journey
Monday, 17 July 2017
Joel Naoum was the publisher at Pan Macmillan’s digital imprint Momentum for five years before starting up the publishing consultancy Critical Mass. He shares his career journey. I’ve always been...
Read centre: Bookselling in the Alice with Red Kangaroo Books
Monday, 17 July 2017
Alice Springs’ Red Kangaroo Books is likely the only bricks-and-mortar bookshop between Port Augusta, Darwin, Broome and Broken Hill, and serves a community of academics, health professionals and artists. Manager...
UK book sales steady in first-half of 2017 despite absence of blockbuster
Monday, 17 July 2017
In the UK, print sales were up 1.2% to £652.7m (A$1.1b) in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2016 according to Nielsen BookScan, reports...
First authors announced for Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2017
Monday, 17 July 2017
The first authors have been announced for this year’s Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, which runs from 25-29 October in Ubud, Bali. Among the international guests are Scottish crime writer...
‘The Strays’ shortlisted for UK historical fiction prize
Monday, 17 July 2017
The Strays by Emily Bitto (Affirm) is one of six titles shortlisted for the 2017 Goldsboro Crown for Historical Debut Fiction, presented by Goldsboro Books and the Historical Writers Association...
Canadian licensing agency wins court course against university over copyright
Friday, 14 July 2017
A Canadian federal court has ruled in favour of national licensing agency Access Copyright in its legal dispute with York University, finding that the tertiary institution’s intellectual property guidelines were...
Sydney Jewish Writers Festival 2017 program announced
Friday, 14 July 2017
The program has been announced for the 2017 Sydney Jewish Writers Festival, which runs from 26-27 August. The festival will be headlined by British novelist Rachel Seiffert, who will appear...
‘Books+Publishing’ launches ‘Think Australian’ newsletter
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Books+Publishing has launched a free monthly newsletter about the Australian book industry aimed at an international audience of publishers, rights managers, scouts, literary agents, and film and TV agents. The...
Introducing the ‘Treehouse’ series
Thursday, 13 July 2017
It’s impossible to overstate the success of the ‘Treehouse’ junior-fiction series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. The series launched in Australia in 2011 with The 13-Storey Treehouse and will...
US print sales continue to grow in first half of 2017
Thursday, 13 July 2017
US print sales in the first half of 2017 have increase 3% in volume compared to the first six months of 2016, despite the lack of a breakout print title,...
Post-apocalyptic YA trilogy optioned for screen
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Melbourne-based author Justin Woolley’s YA trilogy ‘The Territory’ has been optioned for screen by Australian director Dana-Lee Mierowsky Bennett following negotiation by Alex Adsett Publishing Services. ‘The Territory’ is a...
RWA announces finalists for 2017 Valerie Parv Award
Thursday, 13 July 2017
The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the finalists for its 2017 Valerie Parv Award for an unpublished manuscript. The finalists are: Kali Anthony Fiona Marsden Emily Michel Miranda...
Introducing ‘Think Australian Junior’
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Welcome to the first edition of the Think Australian Junior newsletter. We’re incredibly excited to be bringing the best Australian children’s and YA books to an international audience of publishers,...
Shortlist highlights Australian books with an environmental theme
Thursday, 13 July 2017
The Australian Wilderness Society has announced the shortlists for the Environment Award for Children’s Literature, which are presented annually to books that ‘foster a love of wild places and wildlife’...
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