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Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000)    Heartland:...

Wakefield acquires Parker’s ‘Endo Days’ 

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to journalist Libby Trainor Parker’s debut nonfiction book, which has the working title Endo Days: Life, love and laughs with endometriosis. Endo Days is...

Melbourne booksellers enter stage four lockdown 

Tuesday, 4 August 2020
On Sunday, 2 August Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced that the state has enacted a state of disaster due to the continued rise in Covid-19 cases. Subsequently, metropolitan Melbourne has...

Digital Australian Government Style Guide in public beta

Tuesday, 4 August 2020
The Australian government has released the draft digital version of its Australian Government Style Manual in beta for public testing. The digital edition being developed will be the first edition...

Murphy receives inaugural IPEd Janet Mackenzie Medal 

Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Elizabeth Manning Murphy has won the inaugural Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) Janet Mackenzie Medal. The award, which honours the late founding member of Editors Victoria and lifetime IPEd member...

NZ Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2020 winners announced

Monday, 3 August 2020
The 2020 winners of the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for New Zealand Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror have been announced The winners include: Best novel—adult The Dawnhounds (Sascha Stronach, Little...

Colin Roderick Award 2020 shortlist announced

Monday, 3 August 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Colin Roderick Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Peace (Garry Disher, Text)...

SLV launches ‘6 weeks, 6 issues’ web series

Friday, 31 July 2020
State Library Victoria (SLV) has launched a new live web series, ‘6 weeks, 6 issues’, featuring Victorian policy experts. CEO Kate Torney will host leaders from the health, education, labour...

Two Victorian library services sign with Civica for Spydus LMS 

Friday, 31 July 2020
Two of Victoria’s largest metropolitan libraries, Eastern Regional Libraries Corporation (ERLC) and Yarra Plenty Regional Libraries (YPRL)—which between them loaned 9 million items last year—have signed five-year contracts with Civica...

A&U, THA staff return to full-time hours 

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Allen & Unwin (A&U) and Thames & Hudson Australia (THA) have confirmed their staff have returned to full-time hours. In early April A&U announced its ‘precautionary’ decision to temporarily reduce...

Furphy Literary Award 2020 winners announced

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
The winners of the inaugural Furphy Literary Award have been announced. Ruby Todd won the $15,000 open category for her short story ‘Awakening’, chosen from a shortlist announced in early...

Transit Lounge acquires Jach’s ‘Travelling Companions’ 

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Transit Lounge has acquired world English-language rights to Antoni Jach’s fourth novel, Travelling Companions. Publisher Barry Scott said the novel is ‘charming, amusing and philosophical. Solitary travellers and a couple...

Nib Literary Award 2020 longlist announced

Tuesday, 28 July 2020
The longlist for the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Nothing New (Robyn Annear, Text) After the Count (Stephanie Convery,...

Hall, Kneen receive $80k Copyright Agency fellowships

Tuesday, 28 July 2020
The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has awarded three fellowships totalling $240,000. Writers Rodney Hall and Krissy Kneen and visual artist Khaled Sabsabi will each receive $80,000 to create new works....

Savage to leave Writers Victoria 

Monday, 27 July 2020
Writers Victoria CEO Angela Savage has been appointed the inaugural CEO of Public Libraries Victoria (PLV). PLV chairperson Chris Buckingham said in a statement that Savage stood out during the...

Educational Publishing Awards 2020 shortlists announced

Friday, 24 July 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2020 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). The shortlists in each category are: Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities/Social Sciences/Technologies/Health and Physical...

McKinty wins 2020 Theakston Crime Novel of the Year

Friday, 24 July 2020
Irish-Australian writer Adrian McKinty has won the 2020 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for his novel, The Chain (Hachette). McKinty received the £3000 (A$5490) award at...

MWF Digital program announced

Thursday, 23 July 2020
The full program for the 2020 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which will be delivered entirely online from 7–16 August, has been announced. MWF Digital will run under the theme ‘Attention’, and...

 

 

 

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