Varuna announces recipients for 2017 Publisher Introduction Program
Thursday, 6 April 2017
The recipients of Varuna’s 2017 Publisher Introduction Program have been announced. The program offers writers a one-week residency at Varuna and the opportunity to have their manuscript considered for publication...
Psynode (Marlee Jane Ward, Seizure)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Marlee Jane Ward impressed with her YA debut Welcome to Orphancorp in 2015, winning Seizure’s Viva La Novella Prize as well as the YA category of the Victorian Premier’s Literary...
Book blogger spotlight: Sam Still Reading
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Blogger Jeanie Misko has been writing about an eclectic mix of books for her blog Sam Still Reading since 2010, with her audience growing to about 2500 people a month. Misko...
Protesters ‘ridicule’ plan to turn London library into combined gym and self-service library
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
About 250 campaigners attended an April Fool’s Day rally to ‘ridicule’ Lambeth Council’s decision to turn Carnegie Library, London, into ‘a healthy living centre with a self-service neighbourhood library’, reports...
ALS Gold Medal 2017 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette) Between a Wolf and a...
Australians nominated for 2017 Hugo Awards
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
A number of Australians are finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards for science-fiction. UK-based Australian writer Foz Meadows is a finalist in the category of Best Fan Writer. Meadows is...
German illustrator Wolf Erlbruch wins Astrid Lindgren Award
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
In Sweden, German illustrator and author Wolf Erlbruch has been announced as the winner of the five million krona (A$590,000) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, reports the Bookseller. Prize chairman Boel...
Four Australians shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Four Australians are among the 21 writers shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017. The shortlisted Australian writers and their works are: Ruth Lacey, for ‘Gauloises Blue’ Chloe Wilson,...
Duarte, Pinkham join Wheeler Centre board
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Hardie Grant managing director Julie Pinkham and Culture is Life CEO Belinda Duarte were appointed to the Wheeler Centre board as directors on 20 March. Duarte and Pinkham join Russel...
‘Overland’ Nakata Brophy Prize shortlist announced
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Overland journal has announced the shortlist for the fourth Nakata Brophy Prize for the best short story by a young Indigenous writer. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Allanah...
Berbay wins Bologna Prize for children’s publishing
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Australian publisher Berbay Publishing has won the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. Berbay was chosen from a shortlist of four, which included...
Line-up announced for Australian Writers Week in China
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
The Australian Embassy in Beijing has announced the authors participating in the tenth Australian Writers Week in China, which runs from 10-18 May. Authors Tom Keneally, Geraldine Brooks, John Marsden...
2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist announced
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Stay with Me (Ayobami Adebayo, Canongate) The Power (Naomi Alderman, Viking) The...
EWF announces 2017 festival ambassadors
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced the five writers appointed ambassadors for EWF’s National Writers’ Conference, which runs from 17-18 June. The ambassadors are Melina Marchetta, Michelle Law, Inga...
Bishop wins 2016 Ashurst Business Literature Prize
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Catherine Bishop has won the 2016 Ashurst Business Literature Prize for her book Minding Her Own Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney (NewSouth). Bishop was presented with the $30,000 prize at...
Educational publishers’ arguments against fair use ‘misinformed and misleading’: Browne
Monday, 3 April 2017
Macmillan managing director Greg Browne has said the idea that introducing a ‘fair use’ exception into the Copyright Act is a terminal threat to Australian culture and education is ‘rubbish’,...
‘Daily Mail’ and PRH launch £20,000 UK debut crime writing competition
Monday, 3 April 2017
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) imprint Century has partnered with the Daily Mail newspaper to run a £20,000 (A$32,870) debut crime writing competition, reports the Bookseller. The competition is...
Govt announces four-year funding for Australian presence at Bologna
Friday, 31 March 2017
The Australian government will provide funding of ‘more than $160,000 over four years’ to ‘promote Australian authors and illustrators through a strong Australian presence at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair’....
NSW State Library to host symposium on A&R publishing
Friday, 31 March 2017
The State Library of NSW will host a symposium examining the legacy of the publisher Angus & Robertson (A&R) on 10 April. Speakers at the ‘Waratah & Thistle: Angus &...
New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now
Friday, 31 March 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 14 reviews of books publishing in May and June 2017. Eva Hornung’s The Last Garden (Text, May) is one of two books to score 4.5 stars, with...
Stella Prize announces expanded ‘Girls Write Up’ program
Friday, 31 March 2017
The Stella Prize has announced the line-ups for its one-day ‘Girls Write Up’ festivals for students. Events will be held in Canberra on 6 May, Melbourne on 15-16 June and...
‘The Girl of Ink and Stars’ win Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017
Friday, 31 March 2017
In the UK, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s debut novel The Girl of Ink and Stars (Chicken House) has won the £5000 (A$8160) Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, reports the Bookseller. Hargrave’s novel...
Beresford to direct film adaptation of ‘The Women in Black’
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Bruce Beresford will direct a film adaptation of Madeleine St John’s 1993 novel The Women in Black (Text), which has received funding from Screen Australia and Screen NSW. Beresford and...
New season of ‘The Book Club’ to launch in April
Thursday, 30 March 2017
The ABC has announced ‘The Book Club’ will return for a new season, running from 18 April to 6 June. The premiere episode features crime writer Michael Robotham and feminist writer...
Book blogger spotlight: Happy Indulgence
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Happy Indulgence is a team of three book bloggers (two Australia-based, one US) specialising in YA titles. Blogger Jeann Wong, who writes about sci-fi and fantasy titles, said their site...
Book blogger spotlight: Happy Indulgence
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Happy Indulgence is run by three YA book bloggers specialising in contemporary, historical, sci-fi and fantasy titles. The site reaches an audience of over 10,000 followers in the US, Australia...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
‘More needs to be done to define the economy of writing—to make the real economy of the book visible by measuring and compensating for the hidden or social use of...
2016 sales, earnings down at PRH
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) parent company Bertelsmann has reported declines in sales and earnings at the publisher in 2016, with revenue dropping 9.6% from to €3.7bn (A$5.24bn) in 2015 to...
Amazon to be fully operational in Australia by end of 2018, reports ‘Fairfax’
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Amazon plans to be fully operational in Australia by the end of 2018, Fairfax reported on 28 March. Fairfax has since removed the story from its websites. Former Amazon global logistics senior...
Kent shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Hannah Kent has been shortlisted for the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for her novel The Good People (Picador). Kent is one of seven titles shortlisted for the...
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