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Fogarty Literary Award shortlist announced

Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Fremantle Press has announced the shortlist for the $20,000 Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'The Glass House' by Brooke Dunnell 'A Horse Held at...

EWF 2021 program announced

Wednesday, 12 May 2021
The program for the 2021 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), running 16–26 June 2021,  has been announced. After being held entirely online in 2020, EWF will in 2021 be a hybrid...

Avid Reader shortlisted for LBF Bookstore of the Year

Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Brisbane bookshop Avid Reader has been shortlisted for the bookstore of the year award at the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. Avid Reader, which was recently named bookshop...

Shawline Publishing opens The Independent Bookstore 

Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Publishing services provider Shawline Publishing has announced it has opened The Independent Bookstore in Ballarat, Victoria, and plans to open more than 20 new outlets in the next two years....

Brisbane, Byron writers festivals receive RISE funding 

Monday, 10 May 2021
The Brisbane and Byron writers festivals have received funding from the federal government’s Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) fund, as announced in the third round of RISE recipients...

Reece YA novel ‘Mice’ to be adapted for film

Friday, 7 May 2021
Gordon Reece's 2010 young adult novel Mice (A&U) will be adapted into a feature film by Nicole Kidman’s production company Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories. Mice is a psychological...

Knight to retire from ADS

Thursday, 6 May 2021
Phill Knight will retire as distribution director of Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) after more than 20 years in the role. Knight will step down in early January 2022, which allows...

MWF 2021 schools program announced

Wednesday, 5 May 2021
The schools program for the 2021 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has been announced. The primary school program, which will run 6 and 7 September, features Australian Children’s Laureate Ursula Dubosarsky;...

Briggs awarded 2021 Janet Mackenzie Medal

Tuesday, 4 May 2021
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Edwin (Ted) Briggs as the recipient of the second annual Janet Mackenzie Medal. The award, which honours the late founding member of...

Mascara announces new residency

Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Mascara Literary Review, in partnership with the Bundanon Trust, has announced the creation of the Mascara Bundanon Writer’s Residency. The residency, which is now open for submissions, is for First...

Thaker awarded 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship

Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Torres Strait Islander storyteller Lenora Thaker has won the 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship. Thaker is the first Torres Strait Islander writer to win the Boundless Indigenous Mentorship, which was launched in...

Push for EBA at Better Read Than Dead 

Monday, 3 May 2021
The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), representing staff at the independent Sydney bookshop Better Read Than Dead requesting an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA), has approached bookshop management to...

‘Now That I See You’ wins 2021 Vogel

Monday, 3 May 2021
Now That I See You by Canberra author Emma Batchelor is the winner of this year's $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age...

Day wins 2021 Nature Writing Prize

Friday, 30 April 2021
Gregory Day has won the 2021 Nature Writing Prize for his work 'The Watergaw'. Dave Witty was highly commended for 'The Lone Tree of Mackay', and Michael Bradley received an...

Crawford’s ‘No Document’ sells to US 

Thursday, 29 April 2021
North American rights to Anwen Crawford’s nonfiction work No Document have been sold to Transit Books. Adam Levy and Ashley Nelson Levy from Transit acquired rights from Nick Tapper at Giramondo....

‘Phosphorescence’ wins 2021 ABIA Book of the Year

Wednesday, 28 April 2021
The winners of the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. In the business awards, Penguin Random House Australia won publisher of the year while the University of...

UWAP announces 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist

UWAP logo Wednesday, 28 April 2021
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives a cash prize of $10,000, as well as manuscript development...

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 winners announced

Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Ellen van Neerven has scooped the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with their poetry collection Throat (UQP). Van Neerven’s collection was awarded the overall $10,000 book of the year award,...

Liminal, Pantera establish $10,000 nonfiction prize

Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Liminal magazine and Pantera Press have announced a new nonfiction writing prize for First Nations writers and writers of colour. The winner of the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize receives...

Doust joins Affirm as commercial publisher 

Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Affirm Press has announced the appointment of Kelly Doust to the newly created role of publisher—commercial. ‘Kelly is exactly what we’ve been looking for to crack open new categories and...

 

 

 

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