US writers’ groups Authors United and the Author Guild merge
Thursday, 8 December 2016
In the US, campaign group Authors United has merged with the country’s largest writers’ organisation, the Authors Guild, reports the Bookseller. Originally set up to protect authors’ interests in Amazon’s...
Moriarty tops fiction category in 2016 Goodreads Awards
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Liane Moriarty’s Truly Madly Guilty (Pan Macmillan) has won the fiction category in the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2016. Moriarty won the category with 30,154 votes, coming ahead of...
Please complete our pre-Christmas survey: Last chance
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...
‘The Cow Tripped Over the Moon’ to be read for National Simultaneous Storytime 2017
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Tony Wilson and Laura Wood’s The Cow Tripped over the Moon (Scholastic) will be read for National Simultaneous Storytime 2017, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced. National...
Abrams pulls ‘intentionally offensive’ book after social media response
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
In the UK and US, publisher Abrams is discontinuing publication of Bad Little Children's Books after criticism on social media over the book’s ‘unabashedly un-PC, rude, tasteless, inappropriate—or all the above’...
Kaminsky wins 2016 Voss Literary Prize
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Author and doctor Leah Kaminsky has won the 2016 Voss Literary Prize for her debut novel The Waiting Room (Vintage). The Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel...
ASA emerging writers, illustrators mentorship recipients announced
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
The 13 participants selected for the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Emerging Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program have been announced. The recipients of the 12 Copyright Agency Cultural Fund mentorships...
Lefevre named Adelaide Uni’s Coetzee Centre Writer in Residence
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
South Australian author Carol Lefevre has been chosen as the second Copyright Agency J M Coetzee Writing Fellow at the University of Adelaide. The $30,000 fellowship, funded by the Copyright...
Christmas closing list 2016: Updated
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Company Last day of business in 2016 First day of business in 2017 Allen & Unwin Friday 23 December (Closing 1pm) Tuesday 3 January Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) (see classified)...
Merry Christmas: Our 2016 highlights and plans for 2017
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
As the end of the year approaches (we published our Christmas preview in July and our 2017 fiction, nonfiction and children’s/YA previews in October, so it feels like it’s been...
FutureBook Award 2016 winners announced
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
In the UK, the Bookseller has announced the winners of this year’s FutureBook Innovation Awards. Pan Macmillan digital communications director Sara Lloyd was named Digital Leader of Year because of...
Binks sells first book as literary agent
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Danielle Binks has sold her first manuscript as ‘agent-at-large’ with Jacinta Dimase Management. Binks sold world rights to Aboriginal writer and academic Graham Akhurst’s debut YA novel Borderland to Kate...
HGE announces 2016 Ampersand Prize shortlist
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Hardie Grant Egmont has announced the shortlist for its 2016 Ampersand Prize for unpublished YA and middle-grade authors. The five shortlisted authors and their works are: Rhiannon Williams for the...
Copyright Agency launches celebrity copyright campaign
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
The Copyright Agency and APRA AMCOS, which supports Australian music creators, have launched a celebrity social media campaign ‘aimed at encouraging Australian audiences to respect creative property rights’. The campaign...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2017 shortlists announced
Monday, 5 December 2016
The shortlists for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards for 2017 have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Fiction Between a Wolf and a Dog (Georgia Blain, Scribe)...
Grant wins 2016 Walkley Book Award
Monday, 5 December 2016
Journalist and author Stan Grant has won the 2016 Walkley Book Award for his memoir Talking to My Country (HarperCollins). Grant was chosen from a longlist of nine announced in...
Tax likely to come down on ebooks in the EU
Monday, 5 December 2016
Ebooks sold in the European Union are likely to face a lower VAT (value-added tax) next year following the European Commission’s (EC) proposal to ‘enable Member States to apply the...
‘ABR’ Books of the Year issue surveys publishers, writers
Friday, 2 December 2016
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has asked a dozen publishers to nominate their favourite books of 2016 published by other houses for a feature in its December issue. The publishers...
Steve Jones leaves ABA
Friday, 2 December 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that marketing and conference manager Steve Jones has left the ABA to pursue other interests. ABA CEO Joel Becker said Jones has been responsible...
De Luca wins 2016 Bad S-x in Fiction Award
Friday, 2 December 2016
Italian author Erri De Luca has recieved the 2016 Bad S-x in Fiction award, the Literary Review’s annual prize for ‘poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in...
Inaugural Horne Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 2 December 2016
The Saturday Paper and cosmetics company Aesop have announced the shortlist for the inaugural $15,000 Horne Prize for essay writing. The shortlisted writers are: Chelsea Bond for ‘Mythologies of Aboriginal...
Xoum announces inaugural XO Romance Prize shortlist
Friday, 2 December 2016
Xoum Publishing has announced the shortlist for its inaugural XO Romance Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted works and their authors are: Wendy Lee Davies for ‘The Drover’s Rest’,...
Readings Foundation grant recipients 2017
Thursday, 1 December 2016
The Readings Foundation has chosen 10 Victorian organisations to share $128,349 worth of grants in 2017. The grant recipients are: African Communities Foundation Australia: $15,000 to support a weekly seniors...
Deborah Cass Prize 2016 shortlist announced
Thursday, 1 December 2016
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the second Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Jean Bachoura for ‘Night Falls’...
New Hawkins novel publishing in April
Thursday, 1 December 2016
In the UK, Doubleday has announced details of a new novel by Paula Hawkins, the bestselling author of The Girl on the Train, to be published on 2 May 2017,...
Ayres appointed NLA director-general
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Marie-Louise Ayres has been appointed as director-general of the National Library of Australia for a five-year term. Ayres has served in senior management roles at the NLA since 2002, most...
ALIA joins Professions Australia
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has joined Professions Australia, the peak body for professional associations. ALIA CEO Sue McKerracher said it joined as ‘our interests align in the important...
Sharing knowledge: Keiran Rogers and Greg Browne on the Small Press Network mentorship program
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Earlier this year, the Small Press Network (SPN) launched a mentorship program that matched eight Victoria-based SPN members with established publishing professionals. The program, which has funding from Creative Victoria,...
Oxford Literary Festival commits to paying authors after backlash
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
In the UK, the Oxford Literary Festival has ‘rebalanced its budgets’ and will pay authors £150 to speak at its 2017 festival and for all future festivals, reports the Bookseller....
UWAP announces Dorothy Hewett Award 2016 shortlist
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Anne-Marie Priest for ‘A Free Flame’, a...
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