CWF 2020: All live events sold out; ‘strong uptake’ for streaming
Monday, 24 August 2020
This year’s Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) included a mix of live and online-only events with over 60 artists. All events were streamed, with 34 writers and moderators appearing in-person and...
Epstein’s ‘Small Spaces’ optioned for film
Monday, 24 August 2020
Small Spaces (Sarah Epstein, Walker Books) has been optioned for film by Triptych Pictures and US producer Rebecca Green via Alex Adsett. Triptych produced feature film The Babadook and TV...
Lui to curate new A&U imprint
Monday, 24 August 2020
Writer, actor and director Nakkiah Lui will curate a new imprint, Joan, at Allen & Unwin (A&U). Named for Lui’s grandmother, the imprint will commission books across all genres, with...
ABDA 2020 winners announced
Friday, 21 August 2020
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the winners of the 2020 Australian Book Design Awards. Chosen from shortlists announced in April, the winners in each category are: Best...
Magabala announces fellowship for mid-career writers
Friday, 21 August 2020
Magabala Books has launched a new fellowship for mid-career First Nations writers and storytellers, worth $10,000. The Magabala Fellowship, supported by the Serp Hills Foundation, is open to Aboriginal and...
ILF to hold Indigenous Literacy Day YouTube event
Thursday, 20 August 2020
This year, in lieu of its usual celebration at the Sydney Opera House, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) will post a 45-minute 'visual event' on its YouTube channel to celebrate...
Fry, Tu appointed Age/SMH emerging book critics
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Book critics Declan Fry and Jessie Tu have been appointed to write for Nine’s newspapers, replacing Jack Callil and Bec Kavanagh, who resigned from the Copyright Agency/Judith Neilson Institute-funded emerging...
Synchronicity Australia options FitzGerald’s ‘Ash Mountain’ for screen
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Synchronicity Australia, the new Melbourne-based arm of Glasgow production company Synchronicity Films, has acquired screen rights to Helen FitzGerald's forthcoming novel Ash Mountain (Affirm, March 2021). Affirm Press described Ash Mountain...
Hachette announces paid summer internship program
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Hachette Australia has announced it will run a new annual paid internship program ‘for anyone interested in a career in publishing’. The Hachette Australia Summer Internship Program will run for...
Report finds people reading more books due to Covid-19
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
A new research report from GlobalWebIndex (GWI) has found 20% of Australians and 26% of New Zealanders surveyed are reading more books due to Covid-19. The coronavirus-focused market research report...
Transit Lounge acquires Papathanasiou’s ‘The Stoning’
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Transit Lounge has acquired world English rights to debut crime fiction novel The Stoning by Peter Papathanasiou, via Martin Shaw from Shaw Literary. Canberra-based Papathanasiou, who published his memoir Little...
Kamaleddine’s ‘The Truth About Luck’ wins inaugural Matilda Children’s Literature Prize
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Samera Kamaleddine has won HarperCollins Australia’s inaugural Matilda Children’s Literature Prize for her YA manuscript The Truth About Luck. Kamaleddine’s novel tells the story of a 16-year-old Lebanese–Australian Layla Karimi,...
MUBA renamed SPN Book of the Year Award
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
The Small Press Network (SPN) has renamed its annual Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA) as the Small Press Network Book of the Year Award. The MUBA 'celebrated hidden gems—engaging and...
‘Invisible Boys’ optioned for film and TV
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Director Nicholas Verso and producer Tania Chambers have optioned the film and television rights to Invisible Boys (Holden Sheppard, Fremantle Press), via Haylee Nash of the Nash Agency. The YA...
Williams appointed interim SWF artistic director
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Former Wheeler Centre director Michael Williams has been appointed interim artistic director of the Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF), reports the Age. Williams will remain based in Melbourne, spending a week...
Federal government to propose copyright reforms later this year
Monday, 17 August 2020
The federal government will propose reforms to Australia’s copyright laws in exposure draft legislation it expects to release later this year. The proposed reforms will follow the government’s initial response...
ANZ children’s illustrations to feature in ‘The Ickabog’
Monday, 17 August 2020
Six Australians and four New Zealanders are among the 34 children whose artworks will illustrate the UK version of J K Rowling's The Ickabog (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)....
National Simultaneous Storytime 2021 to take place on International Space Station
Monday, 17 August 2020
Philip Bunting's forthcoming picture book Give Me Some Space! (Scholastic, November) has been chosen for the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) 2021, which will take...
Robotham shortlisted for CWA Gold Dagger
Friday, 14 August 2020
Good Girl Bad Girl (Michael Robotham, Hachette) has been shortlisted for the Gold Dagger in the 2020 Crime Writers Association (CWA) Dagger Awards. The Gold Dagger is for the best...
Boldwood to publish Higgins’ ‘An Unusual Boy’ in ‘innovative’ partnership with Booktopia
Friday, 14 August 2020
Fiona Higgins’ next novel will be published by UK-based Boldwood Books and distributed in Australia by Booktopia via its Booktopia Publisher Services distribution arm. Boldwood, which has acquired world rights...
Saunders wins 2020 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Friday, 14 August 2020
Mykaela Saunders has won the 2020 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘River Story’. Saunders receives $6000. C J Garrow was placed second for...
NCACL launches First Nations children’s book resource
Thursday, 13 August 2020
The National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature (NCACL) has produced a new, freely accessible database of children’s books by and about Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Stage one,...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2020 winners announced
Thursday, 13 August 2020
The winners of the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. New Zealand poet laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh’s first book for children, Mophead, took...
Auckland booksellers enter stage three lockdown
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
In New Zealand, Auckland bookshops have entered stage three lockdown for at least three days as the country responds to four new cases of Covid-19 contracted from an unknown source....
CBCA Book Week 2020 postponed to October
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
This year's CBCA Book Week, which usually runs in late August during term three, will now take place in term four, from October 17–23. The rescheduled dates are due to...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
The shortlists for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best novel Whatever it Takes (Paul Cleave,...
Arab-Australian writers auction signed books for Beirut
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
An online auction has been established by Arab-Australian authors, academics and artists to raise funds for Impact Lebanon, a charity providing disaster relief for the victims of the Beirut explosion....
Guidelines for $75m RISE and $35m Arts Sustainability funds released
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
The federal government has released guidelines for the $75 million Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund and $35 million Arts Sustainability Fund announced in June in response to...
Create NSW funding recipients announced; future of Writing NSW ‘at risk’
Monday, 10 August 2020
Create NSW has announced the recipients of its Multi-Year Organisations Funding. In the literature category, four organisations received combined funding of $570,000: Red Room Poetry ($125,000): To support its vision for...
Hardie Grant acquires Ellis’ ‘Sex, Lies and Question Time’
Monday, 10 August 2020
Hardie Grant Books has acquired Sex, Lies and Question Time: The successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament by former Australian politician Kate Ellis. The publisher said Ellis’ book...
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