Missingham to deliver keynote as SPN annual conference goes online Archive
Friday, 16 October 2020
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced that Sam Missingham, founder of the UK-based marketing agency The Empowered Author, will be the keynote speaker at its 2020 Independent Publishing Conference,...
Deacon in the running for US award Archive
Friday, 16 October 2020
Australian writer Desley Deacon is in the running for the US Theatre Library Association’s 2020 George Freedley Memorial Award. Deacon’s book Judith Anderson: Australian Star First Lady of the American...
Arnott wins inaugural $30,000 Hedberg residency Archive
Friday, 16 October 2020
Robbie Arnott has won the inaugural University of Tasmania Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Program. Arnott said the program, which carries a stipend of $30,000, would give him the time and space needed...
PRH acquires Edgar’s ‘The Coffin Confessor’ Archive
Thursday, 15 October 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to The Coffin Confessor by ‘funeral crasher’ Bill Edgar. Edgar's memoir was acquired by PRH commissioning editor Brandon VanOver, who said...
Walkley Book Award 2020 longlist announced Archive
Thursday, 15 October 2020
The Walkley Book Award longlist for 2020 has been announced. The longlisted titles are: After the Count (Stephanie Convery, Viking) City On Fire (Antony Dapiran, Scribe) Hazelwood (Tom Doig, Viking)...
Study finds CBCA early childhood category shortlisted books overwhelmingly white Archive
Thursday, 15 October 2020
A study of books shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Award in the early childhood category since 2001 has found that only 12% of human main characters in...
Ned Kelly Awards 2020 winners announced Archive
Thursday, 15 October 2020
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The winning works and authors in each category are: Best...
New $10k Albert Ullin Award for children’s book creators Archive
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
The Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) will administer a new $10,000 award for children's book creators, established with a bequest from the late Albert Ullin,...
HarperCollins acquires Benns’s ‘The Dying Diplomats’ Club’ Archive
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to The Dying Diplomats’ Club, a ‘Nick and La Contessa novel’ written by the Daily Telegraph editor-at-large Matthew Benns. Benns began the serialised mystery novel Dangerous...
BookUp: APA announces online panels Archive
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA), which in March postponed its planned one-day BookUp conference due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will instead present a series of online panel and conversation sessions...
ABA, APA launch #ShopEarly #ShopLocal Christmas campaign Archive
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) have partnered on a new campaign encouraging Australians to do their Christmas shopping early 'to avoid disappointment when shopping...
Morton to edit ‘Growing Up in Country Australia’ Archive
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Black Inc. has announced the latest addition to its 'Growing Up' nonfiction anthology series, Growing Up in Country Australia, to be edited by journalist Rick Morton. Morton is the Saturday Paper's...
Lucas-Pennington wins 2020 Nakata Brophy prize Archive
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Grace Lucas-Pennington has won the 2020 Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Superposition’. Lucas-Pennington receives $5000 and a three-month writing residence at Trinity College at the...
Deborah Cass Prize 2020 shortlist announced Archive
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
The shortlist for Writers Victoria’s Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The shortlisted works and their authors are: ‘Oluwale, My God Has Come Home’...
Bad Sydney Crime Writers Fest in-person program announced Archive
Monday, 12 October 2020
The full program for the 2020 Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival, which will run in-person on 7–8 November at the State Library of NSW, has been announced. Festival guests appearing...
Australia Reads campaign to host live YouTube events Archive
Monday, 12 October 2020
Australia Reads will host a series of live YouTube events as part of this year’s campaign, which runs from 1–12 November. Australia Reads will broadcast its main event at 12.30pm...
Audible partners with arts bodies for new Australian content Archive
Monday, 12 October 2020
Audiobook publisher Audible has partnered with Create NSW and Screen NSW to offer a new $240,000 podcast opportunity. The Frequency program will ‘support the development of up to eight new...
Word for Word nonfiction festival 2020 program launched Archive
Friday, 9 October 2020
The Word for Word National Nonfiction Festival has launched its 2020 program. The event, which usually runs in Geelong, Victoria, will this year take place online due to Covid-19 restrictions....
Booktopia set for December IPO: report Archive
Friday, 9 October 2020
Online bookseller Booktopia is planning for an initial public offering (IPO) in December, reports the Australian. According to the Australian, Booktopia was holding early investor education meetings earlier this month,...
Pan Mac UK sells Jaku’s memoir in 22 languages Archive
Friday, 9 October 2020
Pan Macmillan UK has sold rights in 22 languages to Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku’s memoir The Happiest Man on Earth, with ‘multi-publisher auctions in many territories’, reports the Bookseller. Pan...
Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2020 shortlist announced Archive
Thursday, 8 October 2020
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘True Grit’ by Ceridwen Dovey (Wired) ‘Case of the missing frogs’...
Affirm acquires Rees children’s book Archive
Thursday, 8 October 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a children’s book by ABC children’s television presenter Jimmy 'Giggle' Rees, via Red Mgmt. Rees’s debut, to be illustrated by Briony Stewart, will...
Hachette acquires Wilson picture book series Archive
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a ‘funny and heartfelt’ picture book series by Australian comic actress Rebel Wilson. The ‘Bella the Brave’ series, to be published in hardback...
Victorian literary orgs to receive Creative Vic funding Archive
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Creative Victoria has announced the 78 arts and cultural organisations that will share in $7.85 million in grants in stage two of its Strategic Investment Fund. The funding is ‘focused...
Inaugural $50k Historical Novel Prize longlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlist for the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. The HNSA has also confirmed sponsor ARA has doubled its funding for the...
ALIA welcomes library budget announcement Archive
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has welcomed the ‘positive outcomes’ for library and information workers announced in the Federal government’s 2020-21 budget. The federal government announced $31.2 million...
QPF receives funding for digital adaptation Archive
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
The Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) is among 52 arts projects to receive funding under the Queensland Government’s Digital Adaptation stream of its Arts and Cultural Recovery Package. QPF receives $9,651...
Richell Prize 2020 shortlist announced Archive
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the shortlist for the 2020 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: ‘The Boy Who...
Black Inc. acquires Wear’s ‘Recovery’ Archive
Monday, 5 October 2020
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to Recovery by Andrew Wear, via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell Agency. Recovery, which follows on from Wear’s first book Solved!, will examine the calamities...
Booktopia announces senior appointments Archive
Monday, 5 October 2020
Online bookseller Booktopia has appointed chief financial officer Wayne Baskin as executive director, and named Geoff Stalley as the retailer’s new CFO. As executive director Baskin joins the Booktopia board,...
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