FutureBook Award 2016 winners announced Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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Hardie Grant Egmont has announced the shortlist for its 2016 Ampersand Prize for unpublished YA and middle-grade authors.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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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...
Campus Bookselling Award winners announced Archive
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) has announced the recipients of its annual booksellers awards. Supplier Customer Service Person of the Year Awards (joint winners) Nick Evgenias (Oxford University Press)...
Pizzinga wins 2016 ABA Vic Rep of the Year Archive
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Anthony Pizzinga from Penguin Random House was named as this year’s Victorian Rep of the Year at the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) Victorian booksellers and publishers Christmas party on 29...
Ireland to roll out 23 more ‘staffless’ libraries Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Ireland will expand its ‘staffless’ library scheme to a further 23 libraries in 2017, reports the Irish Times. Under the ‘My Open Library’ initiative, libraries will remain operating without staff...
Children’s book sales up 15% in China; publishers warn of overcrowded market Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
In China, sales of children’s books are up 15% year-on-year in value terms in 2016 to date, on the back of double-digit surges in recent years, reports the Bookseller. Book...
New Zealand Education Awards winners 2016 announced Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
The winners of the New Zealand Content Counts Education Awards 2016 have been announced. The winners in each category are: Primary Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists (ed...
Publishing software company Typefi wins Australian Export Award Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Queensland-based publishing software company Typefi has won the Small Business category at the Australian Export Awards, which were hosted by Austrade and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in...
‘Overland’ Story Wine Prize winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
The winners of the 2016 Overland Story Wine Prize have been announced. Melbourne-based writer Cameron Watson won the $4000 first prize for his piece ‘Sweeping’, a story exploring the role...
Pollock appointed CEO of BWF organisation UPLIT Archive
Monday, 28 November 2016
Zoe Pollock has been appointed CEO of UPLIT, the new name of the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) organisation. Pollock, who was previously head of development at Sydney Living Museums and...
Finnegan wins Sports Book of the Year Award for ‘Barbarian Days’ Archive
Monday, 28 November 2016
In the UK, US journalist and author William Finnegan has won the £28,000 (A$46,900) William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for his surfing memoir, Barbarian Days (Little, Brown),...
Inaugural Writing NSW grants announced Archive
Monday, 28 November 2016
The NSW Writers’ Centre has announced the recipients of its inaugural Writing NSW Grants for early career writers, an emerging writing organisation, and a writer and technologist working on a...
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