Friday, 28 April 2017
In the UK, US writer Bret Anthony Johnston has won the £30,000 (A$51,850) Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for ‘Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows About Horses’, reports the...

Thursday, 27 April 2017
UK literary journal Granta has revealed its Best Young American Novelists list for 2017, which honours 21 writers under the age of 40. The writers on the list are: Jesse...

Friday, 21 April 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Compass (Mathias Enard, trans by Charlotte Mandell, Fitzcarraldo Editions) A Horse Walks into a...

Wednesday, 19 April 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) UK will pay work experience participants the national living wage of £262.50 (A$446) per week in an effort to boost accessibility and diversity in the publishing...

Thursday, 13 April 2017
Children’s publisher Cottage Door Press has topped Publisher’s Weekly’s annual list of fastest growing US independent publishers, posting a 558% increase in revenue from 2015-2016. Cottage Door, which specialises in...

Wednesday, 12 April 2017
A new company specialising in the production and distribution of spoken audio content and digital media has been established in the US. RBmedia, which is backed by private equity firm...

Tuesday, 11 April 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award has been announced. The 10 shortlisted titles are: A General Theory of Oblivion (José Eduardo Agualusa, trans by Daniel Hahn, Archipelago)...

Monday, 10 April 2017
In the UK, HarperCollins has recorded a drop in sales from £186m (A$307m) to £184m (A$303m) in the 2015-16 financial year, but an increase in operating profits from £13m (A$21m)...

Friday, 7 April 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) has signed an agreement with Grupo Zeta to acquire its Spanish-language publisher Ediciones B. Ediciones B and its imprints will join Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial...

Friday, 7 April 2017
In the UK, the shortlist for the relaunched Rathbones Folio Prize, which has been expanded to include nonfiction, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Vanishing Man (Laura Cumming,...

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...

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...

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...

Wednesday, 29 March 2017
PEN America has announced the winners of its major awards at its annual literary awards ceremony in New York on 27 March, reports Publishers Weekly. The award-winners are: PEN/Jean Stein...

Monday, 27 March 2017
In the UK, Hachette has launched the Future Bookshelf, a creative writing hub for writers who feel they aren’t well represented by the publishing industry, reports the Bookseller. The diversity...

Wednesday, 22 March 2017
In the UK, the University of Warwick has announced the launch of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation to ‘address the gender imbalance in translated literature’ and promote international...

Monday, 20 March 2017
In the UK, Jacob Ross has won the inaugural £1000 (A$1610) Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour for his novel The Bone Readers (Peepal...

Friday, 17 March 2017
In the US, online writing and reading platform Wattpad will partner with Hachette to produce 50 audiobooks based on Wattpad stories, reports Publishers Weekly. The program will focus on popular...

Thursday, 16 March 2017
The longlist for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Compass (Mathias Enard, trans by Charlotte Mandell, Fitzcarraldo Editions) Swallowing Mercury (Wioletta Greg, trans...

Wednesday, 15 March 2017
France’s Shakespeare and Company has been named Bookstore of the Year at the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. Shakespeare and Company is the second bookstore to win the...

Tuesday, 14 March 2017
UK bricks-and-mortar booksellers saw a 4% increase in book sales volume in 2016 while online sales held steady, according to Nielsen’s Books and Consumer survey reported in the Bookseller. Ebook...