Welsh Books Council funding reinstated following industry protests Archive
Thursday, 21 January 2016
Plans to cut £374,000 (A$768,000) from the Welsh Books Council’s budget have been cancelled following protests from writers and publishers, reports the Bookseller. Wales deputy culture minister Ken Skates said...
Stella Prize launches ‘Stella Sparks’ fundraising campaign Archive
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
The Stella Prize is running a new fundraising campaign to ‘ensure the sustainability of the Stella Prize as an organisation’ and ‘celebrate and recognise the importance of writing by women’....
Sales up for travel guides after seven-year slump Archive
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
In the UK, the travel guide market has recorded an increase in sales in 2015 for the first time in seven years, reports the Bookseller. After averaging sales of £103m-£104m...
Blak & Bright Indigenous Literary festival program announced Archive
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
The program for the inaugural Indigenous Literary Festival Blak & Bright has been announced. The festival, to be held in Melbourne from 18-21 February, features more than 60 Aboriginal and...
Inaugural Rock & Roll Writers Festival to be held in Brisbane in April Archive
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
The inaugural Rock & Roll Writers Festival will be held at The Brightside in Brisbane on 2-3 April. The festival was founded by former band managers Leanne de Souza and...
National Book Critics Circle Awards 2015 finalists announced Archive
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
In the US, the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists have been announced. The finalists in the fiction category are: The Sellout (Paul Beatty, Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Fates...
MUP to publish Payne autobiography Archive
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Melbourne University Publishing has acquired the rights to My Story, the autobiography of Michelle Payne, who in 2015 became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. In a...
Indie Awards 2016 shortlists announced Archive
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Leading Edge Books has announced the shortlists for the 2016 Indie Book Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction A Guide to Berlin (Gail Jones, Vintage) The Natural Way...
Bestsellers this week Archive
Monday, 18 January 2016
James Patterson and Marshall Karp’s NYPD Red 4 (Century) has claimed top spot in the overall bestsellers and highest new entries charts in its first week of release. It unseats...
Roy wins 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Archive
Monday, 18 January 2016
Indian novelist Anuradha Roy has won the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for her novel Sleeping on Jupiter (Quercus). Roy’s novel was selected from a shortlist of six...
Writers call for boycott of literary festivals that don’t pay speakers Archive
Monday, 18 January 2016
In the UK, a numbers of writers have called for publishers and fellow authors to boycott festivals that don’t pay speakers’ fees, reports the Bookseller. The calls come after Society...
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2015 finalists announced Archive
Monday, 18 January 2016
The finalists for the 2015 Australian Romance Readers Awards have been announced. Ten writers have been shortlisted for the Favourite Australian Romance Author award, including Kylie Scott, who has won...
IPEd to open membership to individual editors Archive
Monday, 18 January 2016
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) will open its membership to individual editors from July 2016. The organisation’s current membership comprises seven editors’ societies in Australia. Under the new changes,...
Pullman resigns as Oxford Literary Festival patron over refusal to pay authors Archive
Friday, 15 January 2016
In the UK, author Philip Pullman has announced his resignation as Oxford Literary Festival patron over its refusal to pay speakers, reports the Bookseller. Pullman told the Bookseller it was...
ASA announces 2015-16 mentorship recipients Archive
Friday, 15 January 2016
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the recipients of its 2015-16 mentorships for emerging writers and illustrators. Elizabeth Bryer (nonfiction) Steve Fraser (fiction) Denise Cummins (fiction) June Perkins...
Featherston to hold second Booktown event in May Archive
Friday, 15 January 2016
Featherston, New Zealand, will hold its second major Booktown event from 20-22 May this year. The town held its first Booktown event in October last year as part of its...
‘Watershed’ moment for WA writing sector after literary groups defunded Archive
Thursday, 14 January 2016
The WA Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA) has defunded WritingWA, the state’s peak body for the writing sector, as part of its restructured multi-year funding program. Only two...
Annotated edition of ‘Mein Kampf’ debuts on German bestseller list Archive
Thursday, 14 January 2016
In Germany, a new annotated edition of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf will debut on the bestseller charts, reports the Guardian. The new critical version published by the Munich Institute for...
Perth Writers Festival 2016 program released Archive
Thursday, 14 January 2016
The full program for the 2016 Perth Writers Festival, which runs from 18-21 February, has been released. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, UK pop-philosopher Roman Krznaric will give the festival’s...
Starford, Kent to edit ‘KYD’ in 2016 Archive
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Kill Your Darlings founders Rebecca Starford and Hannah Kent will jointly edit the literary journal in 2016, with current editor Brigid Mullane stepping down from the position. Mullane has been...
Schwirtlich reappointed NLA director-general Archive
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Anne-Marie Schwirtlich has been reappointed as the National Library of Australia (NLA) director-general until March 2017. Schwirtlich has served in the role since 2011. She was previously CEO and state...
RiP Brian Johns Archive
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Brian Johns, former Penguin Books director and managing director of the ABC, has died, aged 79. Johns joined Penguin Books as publishing director in 1979, expanding the publisher’s list to...
RiP Peter Milne Archive
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Peter Milne, a long-time bookseller at Abbey’s Bookshop in Sydney, has died, aged 75. Eve Abbey from Abbey’s Bookshop writes: ‘Our indispensable, seemingly everlasting Peter Milne died just before Christmas....
Howe wins 2015 T S Eliot Prize Archive
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
In the UK, Sarah Howe has won the 2015 T S Eliot Prize for her debut poetry collection Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus), the first time a debut has...
Five Hong Kong publishers missing; bookshops remove politically sensitive titles Archive
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Five employees from Hong Kong’s Mighty Current publishing house and its affiliated Causeway Bay Bookshop have gone missing, with fears the staff have been detained by Chinese authorities, reports the...
ABIAs 2016 date, venue announced Archive
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) will be held on 19 May at the Art Gallery of NSW this year. The awards will be hosted by comedian Kitty Flanagan and...
SLQ partners with Hachette for black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships Archive
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) is partnering with Hachette Australia for its annual black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships. The fellowships for writers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent were...
Nguyen, Mann win 2016 ALA Andrew Carnegie Medals Archive
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals. Viet Thanh Nguyen was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The...
Inaugural Deborah Cass Prize shortlist announced Archive
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
The shortlist for Writers Victoria’s inaugural Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The shortlisted works are: ‘Scent of Sousan and Yasaman’ by Sanaz Fotouhi...
ALA Youth Media Awards 2016: Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, Stonewall Archive
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
In the US, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards, including the...
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